Category: Restaurant

Caxton Grill guinea fowl

and after that gorgeous starter of fig, goat’s cheese and quince jelly, this was the main course guinea fowl.  As I said, I never tasted better…...

Caxton Grill for lunch

The Caxton Grill is a restaurant of the St Ermin’s Hotel near St James Park tube station.  The first course was goats cheese and figs, and was followed by pieces of guinea fowl.  Both were totally excellent!...

Blueberry & chocolate cheesecake

The East India Club doesn’t have a dessert menu as such.  Instead they bring round a trolley loaded with goodies.  You can ask for the cheese trolley instead if you wish.  I do not usually eat dessert at lunchtime, but my companion went for the blueberry and chocolate cheesecake...

Chorizo and sausage flatbread

The Blue Water poolside bar & restaurant on the 5th floor of the Miami InterContinental hotel is very pleasant with fantastic views of the bay area.  There is a light menu that features ‘flatbreads’ which are quite like small pizzas.  I had one with chorizo and sausage topping and...

Apple pancake for breakfast

In the US they mix sweet and savoury more happily than we are used to, and it often works.  My breakfast at the JFK Hilton included an apple pancake as well as scrambled eggs, sausage and bacon.  The pancake was good, with some texture to the apples.  With a...

Stylish fish & chips at Fish Works

Fish and chips is the original British fast food.  It’s done very well at Fish Works in London’s Swallow Street, with nice crisp batter, tasty chips, mushy peas and tartare sauce.  It goes very well with Cape Heights chenin blanc....

Cheeses at St John’s Chop House

St John’s Chop House in Cambridge is two remarkable things: its food is very British, and it is consistently brilliant.  I started with the pear and blue cheese tart, ate crab and smoked haddock fish cakes for my main course, and finished up sharing the British cheeses.  There was...

The Real Greek

The Real Greek restaurants have several branches in London.  They have a neat business model of using quite small tables and serving the food on cake stands, with the dishes stacked up vertically to save space.  Their food is very good indeed, and the prices quite keen.  This time...

Reys Cambridge

I only rarely visited the place in Cambridge when it was a pub called The Cow, but I’m told it did good value in “pint & pizza.” Now it’s Reys chicken and on my first visit I ordered the quarter Reys rotisserie chicken with some Reys hot sauce on...

About Thyme’s Burgos black pudding

I’ve been going to About Thyme for some years now. It never fails to serve excellent food, beautifully prepared. This was their Burgos black pudding (Morcilla) served with fried quail eggs and toasted brioche. The black pudding known as Morcilla de Burgos is a sausage made mostly with pork...