The hot new trend on the London restaurant scene is the “no reservations” policy. So what it means in practice is this: You turn up with a couple of friends and ask for a table. The…
Sartre was right – hell is other people! Alas my full time passion of writing and and film criticism doesn’t currently pay the bills. I’m back temping in a “proper job” to pays…
How will I know I’m successful? I shall go to the cinema at midday and afterwards sate my appetite eating oysters all day and not worry about the cost. However, whilst I am still…
I’ve always been hip! A bold statement I will admit but, since returning home, all the places I used to hang out or thought that looks interesting are now achingly hip. Obviously not because of…
Merde! It was all so easy solo dining and drinking my way around Paris. I was a foreigner and a pretty exotic one at that in a foreign land. I would walk in with my…
