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Magnificent Il Porticciolo at The Cipriani

22/08/2022 by .
Il Porticciolo At The Cipriani

David Gerrie reviews Il Porticciolo at the Cipriani, the hotel’s new laid-back canal-side outdoor restaurant.

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Review: Harry’s Bar, Venice Italy

17/07/2022 by .
Harry's Bar

David Gerrie meets owner Harry Cipriani at Harry’s Bar, the most famous watering hole in Venice.

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Alice’s Tea Party At The Franklin Hotel.

25/06/2021 by .

Legendary Wiltons Restaurant, London

27/08/2019 by .
Wiltons Restaurant has made eight moves since starting as a shellfish-mongers in 1742 in London’s Haymarket - a plenty swanky address in recent centuries, but back then, just that - a market selling hay.

Wiltons Restaurant has made eight moves since starting as a shellfish-mongers in 1742 in London’s Haymarket – a plenty swanky address in recent centuries, but back then, just that – a market selling hay.

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Taste Of Andalucia Tour

03/09/2018 by .
Dining in Antequera bull ring

Potato salad  – a Spanish regional speciality?  Really?
Ask anyone to rattle off a few Spanish delicacies and the results will be fairly predictable – gazpacho, patatas bravas, tortilla, paella, boquerones and a preponderance of bull’s bits will all rate a mention.

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Pizarro Restaurant

07/05/2018 by .
PDR at Pizarro

One of the greatest culinary injustices of our times has been Spanish cuisine’s permanent “bridesmaid” relationship to its French equivalent.  Oh sure, we all get along with tapas and foodies know only too well the major influences of three-star Iberian  chefs such as Ferran Adria, Juan Mari Arzak and his daughter Elena, the Roca brothers and Eneko Atxa.

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