Author Archives: Anthea Gerrie

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Anthea Gerrie

The Jones Family Project. Discover A Perfect Palace for Carnivores.

02/03/2017 by .

Restaurant Noble. Michelin Star eating in Den Bosch.

28/02/2017 by .

Truffle Hunting in Uzès, South of France

26/01/2017 by .
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If there’s one reason to visit the South of France in winter, when despite the brilliant sunshine, it’s freezing cold from the Camargue to the Cote d’Azur, it’s truffles.   Fittingly for an area associated with luxury travel, this – particularly the area surrounding the picturesque town of Uzès –  is one of the most prolific hunting grounds in the world for tuber melanosporum, as the black truffle of winter is known.

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Palm Springs Modernism Week

23/01/2017 by .
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Barack Obama put Palm Springs on the world map when he fled there from a chilly Washington DC on the day of Trump’s inauguration, and thousands of architecture buffs will follow him there in February.   For this California resort awash in sun, sand and mountains is actually most famous for the greatest concentration of mid-century modern homes in the world.

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The Jugged Hare. A wonderful City of London Institution

09/01/2017 by .
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The Jugged Hare, a City of London institution at any time of year, really comes into its own during game season.

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Lotus Indian restaurant – Now Closed

16/12/2016 by .
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Lotus Indian restaurant , two minutes from Charing Cross, breaks the rule which says an ethnic restaurant close to a mainline station is likely be inauthentic at best, a tourist trap at worst.   In fact this multi-award-winning eatery is up there with the best Indian restaurants in London, as good as the several with a Michelin star this reviewer has dined at.

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