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A la Colthard/restaurant wrap up

Last weekend’s visit to Sanary and Cannes on Monday meant for some visits to some fine restaurants. At Sanary we always go to the Hotel de la Tour whose signature dish is sea bass baked in salt. It’s delicious but leaves you thirsty. Mireille does not hold back on ordering and the final bill [...]

April 28, 2022 // 0 Comments

Nice

As with the rest of our party I was delighted to be travelling again and to be back in Nice at my favourite time of year. The season begins in April 15 and early May on the Riviera becomes busy and crowded with the twin attractions of the Monaco Grand Prix and the Cannes film festival. Mind you [...]

April 17, 2022 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard /Roast, Borough Market

‘Roast’  is in Borough Market. It is new to me and things got off to a bad start when they had no sign of the reservation which I had booked through TheFork. I knew I had booked – and indeed had confirmation – so I was less than pleased. My guest, an actress whom I have known 40 [...]

March 23, 2022 // 0 Comments

Noble Rot

This was my third visit to Noble Rot, this time a celebration with an old friend as our respective birthdays are a month part and last Friday was a midway point. This friend alerted me to Noble Rot whose venue at 2 Greek Street I visited many times in its previous incarnation as the Gay Hussar. [...]

March 5, 2022 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Gravetye Manor

This was my second visit to Gravetye Manor, a former baronial-style hall near East Grinstead, with exquisite gardens that was converted into a hotel in 2005. It’s more of a summer place to enjoy the formal walled garden and the expansive grounds by a lake. The dining room is set in a conservatory [...]

January 21, 2022 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/The Ivy, Burnt Orange & Garrick Club

This time of year I develop mal de foie as I’ve had 3 consecutive long lunches. On Sunday we – my two companions being a French friend and her friend – were greeted at the Ivy In the Lanes Brighton by a woman who looking into her iPad could find no trace of our reservation. She [...]

December 17, 2021 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard: two favourites revisited.

Up in London this week I met up with old friends at the Guinea Grill and the Wolseley. The Guinea Grill is unusual as it combines an old-fashioned small pub with an expensive restaurant specialising in fine meat. One of my friends, an ex-advertising honcho who knows his wine, commented on the [...]

December 11, 2021 // 0 Comments

Enough to drive you to drink

Writing, as I do today, from the perspective of someone just past their seventieth birthday, I have become all too familiar with the occasional brush with indicators of the ageing process as they affect me from time to time. As regards what are sometimes called “senior moments” – e.g. [...]

November 24, 2021 // 0 Comments

A la Colthard/Noble Rot

I have only heard good things of Noble Rot. It was once the site of The Gay Hussar in Greek Street where the hand of many a Labour MP, well-fuelled on Bulls Blood, wandered to my thigh!!! The cuisine was Hungarian and it was a well-known restaurant in the Soho scene particularly favoured by the [...]

November 9, 2021 // 0 Comments

A tasting of Austrian wines

The Wine School I attend convened last night to taste Austrian wines. It was the first post-lockdown event I attended and for this alone I enjoyed it. The tutor began by extolling the virtues of Austrian wines: they are organically grown, have more reduced alcoholic content and there is now a [...]

November 5, 2021 // 0 Comments

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