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Critics Top Ten 6 Apr 2013 | 12:16 am
Critics Top Ten: How nice. No. 3. Up there with the big boys like Giles and Jay. (Anyone who’s spoken to me in person over the last year will immediately recognise that last phrase and why I’m totall...
The Vault, Vauxhall. 28 Mar 2013 | 05:28 pm
The Vault, Vauxhall. : When this landed, it was amazing the number of people who didn’t clock the date. Metro was DELUGED with requests for the address, including from an astonishing number of people...
21212 makes me like Embra again. 11 Mar 2013 | 12:31 am
21212 makes me like Embra again. : I hated Embra when I studied there. As a Glaswegian it was everything I fought against: constipated, Anglicised, can-I-say-presbyterian-pinched-catsarseface. Didn’...
ROVINJ: WHERE - BIZARRELY - RESTAURANTS DON’T REALLY... 11 Mar 2013 | 12:04 am
ROVINJ: WHERE - BIZARRELY - RESTAURANTS DON’T REALLY MATTER I’m not going to mince words here: I wouldn’t be in a tearing hurry to jump on Ryanair for Rovinj’s restaurants. But bear with me – even f...
Rules. It Rules. 24 Feb 2013 | 10:49 pm
Rules. It Rules.: I’m going to still be going to Rules when I’m 80 I-should-live-so-long. It’s one of the reasons I love it so much. Last time I went there was an Indie-pop guy staggering through the...
SUNSET OVER FORTS HILL When I have one of my regular bouts of... 21 Feb 2013 | 11:35 pm
SUNSET OVER FORTS HILL When I have one of my regular bouts of going off Fannit - how the hell did I manage to wind up somewhere with such a paucity of decent restaurants? - something like this happen...
'Why do birds suddenly appear?' Entranced by Chez Elles 19 Feb 2013 | 09:21 pm
'Why do birds suddenly appear?' Entranced by Chez Elles: I am honestly at a massive loss as to understand why the Guardian didn’t use photos of the Elles, Nadia and Lili, for this piece. So ridiculou...
Hold the Pulitzer - interview of me by Yugnich Gritkin 10 Jan 2013 | 08:54 pm
Hold the Pulitzer - interview of me by Yugnich Gritkin: Yugnich is my favourite blogger, a man of wit and subtlety, of sophistication and razor-sharp palate. When he asked for an interview, how could...
MORE ON THE THRILL OF THE OLD 2 Jan 2013 | 06:15 pm
MORE ON THE THRILL OF THE OLD: Very remiss with this poor wee tumblr recently. But this piece for the rather gorgeous new website Civilian on my increasing love (well documented here below) for the o...
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? And what did poor yellowtail sashimi do... 11 Oct 2012 | 04:20 am
WHAT WERE THEY THINKING? And what did poor yellowtail sashimi do to deserve this treatment? Possibly the oddest presentation I’ve ever encountered in an equally odd restaurant. If I didn’t have this...
