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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: the River Cafe

The River Cafe was founded by Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray in 1987 and is still going strong. Off the top of my head I cannot think of  any restaurant that has lasted so long under the same ownership. More surprisingly is that it has done so with an unpromising location in Rainville Road, SW6 between [...]

March 19, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard / 64 Degees: lost its compass?

We critics do have the fault of once we approve or disapprove a restaurant we do not visit it again. For sometime 64 Degrees has enjoyed a stellar reputation and I have visited the Brghton branch at least 10 times and the Pimlico the once. High standards were maintained. However I visited the [...]

March 12, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Le Caprice

One of my recurrent themes is that enjoyable dining is not just about the food and wine. Service, ambience, value, location, value all contribute to the experience too. Integral to service and ambience is someone who is properly in charge and for more years that I can remember Jesu has been at the [...]

February 28, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/the restaurants of Lewes

The last and only time I was in Lewes must have been 15 years ago en route to Glyndebourne. Olly and I were going to the opera with some clients of his and Daffers was on her best behaviour as we boarded a routemaster bus the men in black tie and us ladies in our finery which took us to the famous [...]

February 21, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard: Danny’s, Hove

In Paris there are essentially 3 types of restaurant: the famous establishment for serious foodies like Ducasse, the Jules Verne In the Eiffel Tower, Tour d’Argent, the well known brasseries like la Coupole, Bofinger, Closerie des Lilas and the neighbourhood restaurant which every Parisien [...]

February 13, 2015 // 0 Comments

The Colony Grill/ Beaumont Hotel

I was intrigued to see how the Corbin/King combo who brought us the Caprice and Ivy and now Wolseley and Fischers would fares in their latest venture – a hotel (the Beaumont). The short answer seems to be very well. The hotel has at first sight an unusual location in that rather anonymous [...]

January 24, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard

On arrival at Brighton station yesterday I decided to walk to the Centre for some shopping. Imagine my surprise in nearby Trafalgar Road to see the familiar corpulent figure of Bob Tickler, small boy in hand, entering the toy museum. I joined the party to appreciate a museum devoted to model [...]

January 3, 2015 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard: Hotel du Vin Brighton

Popularity is in my opinion a good measure of anything so the first thing to report on the restaurant at the Hotel Du Vin Brighton was that every table was taken and I can see why. On Sundays they offer a 4 course brunch for £24. It’s not really a brunch in the American sense of dishes [...]

December 8, 2014 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard : 64 Degrees Pimlico

The first thing I noticed about the new 64 Degrees in Cambridge St Pimlico was that there was no one there. There was just one other diner. It’s a much larger restaurant than the one in the Lanes in Brighton so have the owners over extended themselves? My guest who lives in the same street [...]

December 3, 2014 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard; Memories Of China

These days I seem to be spending half my life in restaurants who had their zenith 20 years ago. Yesterday I met some close friends of my late parents Bill and Sylvette Davis at Memories of China. This was once Ken Lo’s Memories of China, which says it all. Ken played tennis and ran his [...]

November 27, 2014 // 0 Comments

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