Live & Let Live – Barbeque in Brixton
The bright young thing tripping happily down an aisle in the Brixton Market can’t see the dishevelled man waiting in ambush. As sh ...
Yashin Ocean House – Fabulous Nouvelle Japanese
Yashin Ocean House is a Japanese gem tucked away in an unprepossessing corner of the Old Brompton Road. The decor is stripped dow ...
Constantia Glen: enjoying someone else’s vineyard
Lunching in someone else's vineyard is a delightful experience. You get to admire the view, the rows of vines laid out with geomet ...
Where to Martini in Colombo
Updated June 2017 Anytime someone visits Sri Lanka I get asked for a list of bars to visit in Colombo. Here's my current list. I ...
The Elections Are Over. Now What?
I don't know what to make of the results of the British elections. The chap who lost is considered to have won (the Brits, whose s ...
Picnic in a Shop with Ralph Lauren
The British are an island people with strange habits. One of them is to picnic inside the family car. A British family will drive ...
The EasyJet Princess
I am flying EasyJet, the European low cost carrier, from Gatwick Airport; an efficient if not particularly desirable experience. I ...
Faith, Champagne and Heston
Guest Post from the Princess Monkey. We are in Bray, an English village, not far from London. Heston Blumenthal’s name [OBE & ...
Kicking off 2017 with Men in Gold
Happy New Year! Many of you will be still be nursing hangovers or working on acquiring new ones before settling down to making a l ...