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Delicatessen

05/07/2018 by .
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Hampstead’s Rosslyn Hill has long been a magnet for trendy cafes and restaurants. Affluent local residents enjoy a local evening bite and a weekend hangout while tourists visiting Hampstead’s quaint narrow lanes and heath seek pit stops to re-energise.

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Great Insider guide to Madeira’s restaurants

19/06/2018 by .
Guide To Madeira's Restaurants

Terry Marsh is a veteran of Madeira having spent over fifteen years writing about the island. Here, he gives us his Insider guide to Madeira’s restaurants. His favourite restaurants and foods you can find on the island

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JNcQUOI, Lisbon

10/06/2018 by .
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My wife says she’s been dining out with a dinosaur for years, but this was the first time I had. The dinosaur in question was the centrepiece of the restaurant JNcQUOI in central Lisbon.

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Brilliant Bohemia Bar and Restaurant, Jersey

21/05/2018 by .
Bohemia Bar and Restaurant

Andy Mossack indulges his fine dining passion at Bohemia Bar and Restaurant in St. Helier, Jersey’s capital

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Ocean Restaurant, Jersey

21/05/2018 by .
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The Atlantic Hotel high above St. Ouens Bay in Jersey has an awful lot going for it. Not only is it, hands down, my favourite hotel on the island – it sits in a breathtaking position at the top of the cliffs – but its Ocean Restaurant has a culinary offering to rival anywhere else on Jersey.

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Pizarro Restaurant

07/05/2018 by .
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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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Insider Guide to Fine Dining in Lisbon

02/05/2018 by .

Musling Bistro, Copenhagen

12/04/2018 by .
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Can oysters ever taste as good in a stylish eatery as they do at a down-home restaurant awash in rough-hewn tables and rustic tiles?    Seafood supremo Anders Selmer certainly thought they could when he launched Musling Bistro to complement his hugely popular Kodbyens Fiskebar in a grungier part of Copenhagen. Now Michelin have agreed with him and accorded the restaurant a Bib Gourmand.

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Afternoon Tea at the Savoy

29/03/2018 by .
Savoy Afternoon Tea

Who are the guests selling out the lounge of the Savoy – a much grander room than the name “Thames Foyer” suggests – with their demand for a £65 afternoon blow-out? 

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Holborn Dining Room

16/02/2018 by .
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Friday night and the Holborn Dining Room is heaving. Not at all bad for High Holborn, an area traditionally reserved either for late night drinkers from the outer reaches of the legal profession or office workers heading for Holborn tube on the daily grind home.

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