Shopping. Love it or hate it, sometimes you have to brace yourself and get on with it, especially in the run-up to Christmas. Personally I’m not a hobby shopper and one of the only things that makes a day of shopping bearable is the prospect of a delicious lunch. So…
Restaurants and country pubs
The Oxford Blue Pub review: Where you can enjoy game and venison from HM The Queen’s estates
On the first properly cold autumn night of the year I drove west along the M4 to investigate the Oxford Blue Pub, just outside Old Windsor. My companion kept telling me that he was starving because all he’d had time to eat that day was a banana. “Good” I said,…
Game for lunch in a country pub?
One of the many good things about British Game Week (19-25 November 2018) is that it brings in new customers for venison, partridge, pheasant and duck. People who have never before savoured the delights of game but who after trying it realise what they’ve been missing out on. Converting diners…
Kitchen supper in Chelsea
A good restaurant has to have two things. Firstly, delicious food and secondly, ambience. Don’t you think? You really can’t have one without the other. If the food is great but the atmosphere is lacking, then you’re not going to want to linger and chat. If the ambience is great…