Articles by Daphne Colthard

About Daphne Colthard

After graduating at RADA but finding no roles Daphne went into magazine journalism with Good Housekeeping. Widely recognised as one of the country's leading restaurant and hotel reviewers, particularly by herself, Daphne is the author of "Bedded and Breakfasted", a light hearted chick novel and Grand Hotels DC: the Daffers Dictionary. Daphne lives in West London and is married to an investment banker Oliver. They have 2 boys Humphrey and Tarquin. More Posts

A la Colthard/ Grand Eastbourne and The Jetty

The Grand at Eastbourne is one of the,well, grandest hotels on the South coast. With its wide stucco facade like a wedding cake and its gracious salons it very much an old fashioned hotel of style and luxury. Claude Debusssy came to stay after his marriage packed up. Having said all of this I have [...]

November 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ Bucca di Lupo

Last night I visited for the first time a Soho Italian restaurant called Bucca di Lupo. Not knowing the restaurant at all I was not sure what to expect but my old friends of many years standing had recommended and chosen it. My male friend ‘s family once had a second home in Umbria and over [...]

November 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ The Pig at Brockenhurst

The Pig at Brockenhurst is one of my faves. It must have been 4 years ago more or less to the day that Bob Tickler and I met up with his godson, his mother, her sister and her husband for a delightfully relaxed autumnal meal. This logistics mow rear Bob and I more or less live permanently in [...]

October 29, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Merci and Botin

We started a rainy day by walking to the Prado. Alice Mansfield had marked our card by advising us to cherry pick the most famous works: las meninas by Velazquez, The Dog by Goya and Trinity by El Greco and the collections of Rubens and Hieronymus Bosch. Even with tickets acquired from the hotel [...]

October 23, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard /24 St Georges

One of the interesting aspects of a restaurant is how it deals with something unusual even a crisis. Thus it was that on Saturday a French girlfriend and I went to 24 St Georges in Kemp Town, Brighton. I had been there before and considered it okay but nothing brilliant. It’s a restaurant set [...]

October 10, 2016 // 0 Comments

HIX/Browns Hotel

When I am lunching with somebody really interesting I much prefer a hotel restaurant. At some of the restaurants I have reviewed like La Petite Maison the tables are too tight for stimulating conversation or in Gaultier the waitering too obtrusive. In a luxury hotel I know I will get space and [...]

September 27, 2016 // 0 Comments

28-50 and Kitty Fisher

Yesterday I visited an old favourite and a new recommendation. I’ve been going to 28-50 in Marylebone Lane for years and it’s never let me down. The two dishes I fancied, gazpacho and pork belly, were on the fixed lunch menu. Both delicious. Gazpacho can be cloying but here the fresh [...]

September 7, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Casa Brasil

The new Marina development which will ultimately comprise 821 apartments, some in a forty storey block, is up running with restaurants along the quayside. It’s quite controversial and certainly expensive with a one bedroom flat costing £461,000, two £530 000 and three nearly £800,000 which [...]

August 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/ Polpo

Polpo is now a chain of restaurants owned by Russell Norman modelled on the Venetian bacero, a back street restaurant serving small plates and young Italian wines. It is not smart but the equivalent of the French restaurant du quarter a kind of Venetian tapas bar. Russell Norman started as a waiter [...]

August 9, 2016 // 0 Comments

The Jetty restaurant /Brighton Harbour Hotel

Brighton seafront is getting a makeover. On Thursday the 360 i tower with the highest viewing platform in the UK is unveiled at a cost of £32m. It’s a controversial project but one of its aims is to improve the area between the Pier and the Hove border line which has become run down. [...]

August 1, 2016 // 0 Comments

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ITV COVERAGE OF CHELTENHAM

March 14, 2026 // 0 Comments

I am in the camp of watching on tv rather than attending for the 3 Cs: cost , convenience and comfort. With the cost of travelling and attending Cheltenham and last [...]
Max Schmelling/ The Good German

March 4, 2026 // 0 Comments

In the unlikely event that I would be asked to nominate a Great Life on Matthew Parris ‘ show my choice would be the Black Uhlan Max Schmelling. In the 1930s thee [...]
The Tanner Report : Fulham 2 spurs 1

March 3, 2026 // 0 Comments

Prior to Fulham ‘s comfortable win over Spurs (2-1) I watched the big match Revisited featuring Chelsea 1 Arsenal 2 i guess in the early 70s It would be foolish to [...]
The Six Nations

February 24, 2026 // 0 Comments

The Six Nations continues to throw up surprises. England could not bounce back against Ireland , a resurgent Wales gave Scotland à close game with the Millennium Stadium [...]
Brentford 0 Brighton 2

February 23, 2026 // 0 Comments

The heat is off Fabian Hürzeler with Brighton ‘s 1st win in 13 games. Club owner Tony Bloom was not at the G Tech stadium due to a long planned family engagement but had [...]