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A la Colthard/Stanmer House

Stanmer House is described as Brighton’s best kept secret. It’s a country house set in large park adjacent to the main university campus at Falmer opposite the Amex stadium on the A27. Normally when you visit any park you are first confronted by a whole raft of prohibitions: ‘No [...]

November 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

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

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

Something that didn’t smell quite right

Yesterday evening I made a journey into south-west London in order to have the latest in a lengthy line of ‘swift and cheerful’ catch-up early evening meals with my daughter at a local version of a well-known pizza chain establishment. Normally I bomb up to her place in Oxfordshire where she [...]

August 29, 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

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