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Coombeshead Farm, Lewannick, East Cornwall Number 2 of 4 Cornish restaurants to be reviewed on this thread following our trip to the West Country. Founded by Tom Adams (Pitt Cue) and April Bloomfield (River Cafe, Bibendum, and, ahem, Spotted Pig), this is a 66-acre farm and restaurant with (5)...

Prawn on the Lawn, Padstow. The GLDHI and were in Cornwall last week for what I'm informed is these days called a babymoon. :sick: We stayed at Hotel Endsleigh (I may write a review of that on the country house hotel thread I started a few weeks ago when I was looking for somewhere to stay)...

The Pilot, W4. I went here to meet a couple of fellow Albion fans before the Brentford game. While waiting had some good fish and chips off their ‘match day’ menu, which seems to be a bit more fast food than their standard one. The haddock was perhaps slightly over cooked, but the chips were...

Eat a few more and try again?

In at 5:30 for pre-prandial drinks and the first few nibbles; out at 00:20. Legendary. Normally, the former bubbledogs bit is KT's bar now. For this week only, it's KT's bar until c 6:30, then bubbledogs until 10:30 (all part of the 10-year anniversary celebrations)

KitchenTable, Charlotte Street, W1 Remains my second favourite restaurant, I think. A real pleasure to share the last 10 years with James and Sandia to see them grow and reap the awards they so richly deserve. They comped the evening for me and Riccardo - the GLDHI being indisposed. Menu and...

Thompson, St Albans - 3 AA Rosettes I've never really understood the point of AA rosettes. Surely all you need is Michelin &/or Good Food Guide rating? Anyway, Thompson seems proud to be the 'only 3 rosette restaurant in Herts'. My mother and I took the GLDHI there for her birthday. They do...

I'll have a think. If I know anyone who might fit the bill I'll let them know.

Well, quite. I nearly said something, but discretion being the better part of valour won out.

It’s an acronym for my partner, first used on this thread 4 or 5 years ago.

Straits Kitchen, Pan Pacific Hotel, EC3A I had dinner with my son the other night on his return from a year working in Singapore. He suggested SK. SK tries to justify its expensive price tag, and fails miserably. For example… The menu has a long list (8? 10?) of symbols indicating the...

Paladar, SE1 The GLDHI and I met up with my younger daughter and her partner for dinner at this South American place for dinner. Notable features: Tapas-y; dishes from all over South/Central America (though not that long a menu - a good thing, I think); all dishes are GF, though you wouldn’t...

Lisboeta, Charlotte St, W1 The GLDHI and I went to this newly-opened, heavily reviewed, celebrity-cheffed, Portuguese restaurant last week. It’s a mix of tapas (well, the Portuguese equivalent anyway) and larger dishes. Particularly good were the asparagus in garlic sauce, the pork slices in...

Momo Sushi, Camberwell Church Street The GLDHI and I moved into our new place in August 2020. This meant that her flat in Camberwell was now empty. In September 2020, we had the following conversation: ‘When are you going to get the builders and decorators in to tart it up and then let it...

Gille Brighde, Lower Diabaig, IV22. The GLDHI and I are spending a week with some long-standing close friends of mine in the remotest part of Britain I’ve ever stayed. You’ve forgotten milk? That’ll be 35 minutes to travel back up the 10 mile precipitous cul-de-sac that links Torridon to...

Caviar House, T5 LHR - expensive shite. Avoid like the plague. Fortnum & Mason cafe, T5 LHR - pretty expensive, but the food was reasonable. Flat Iron, N1. A good 200g steak and chips, perfectly cooked - £16. Not the best steak I’ve ever eaten by some distance, but quite probably the best in...

Bubala, E1 We went to see the Van Gogh immersive ‘experience’ yesterday. It was a Christmas present from the GLDHI’s sister. ‘Do we have to?’, I asked ‘I do, but you can stay home’ she replied in a tone that suggested I’d be in the dog house if I did. Despite the generally very good reviews...

Will there be cruzzon?

Lomito, Northwood aka The Argentinian Regular readers of this thread may recall the debate chez Goldstone about whether we took my mother’s friend Joan and the GLDHI’s mother to The Italian or to The Argentinian. I tried to book The Argentinian for last Friday for all five of us (I figured...

Bat and Ball, Westfield Stratford The GLDHI and I met up here with some friends who’d driven up from Sussex for a pre-game snifter and a bite to eat. Beer: they have Neck Oil on tap; job’s a good’un. Food: barely passes that description. Never, never, NEVER eat here. Given the way we played...