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The Seahorse – Dartmouth
We were looking for somewhere special that offered fish or seafood. The South Embankment at Dartmouth has one famous one (now closed) and several others. We did our searching on the web and it was a fairly easy decision to reach, we booked. Having arrived the day before, we verified our choice although Annabelles Kitchen more…
Costa prices deserve to be boycotted!
Hooray for Costa introducing Cortado (from Spain) to their range of coffees. It’s been a long time since I visited Costa, we prefer to support independent coffee shops. Locally we have Moka, Moran’s and the Swallow all who have a great offering of food, all produced on the premises. Having praised Costa for Cortado, I more…
The Crab Shell – Dartmouth
We love fresh crab and were looking forward to having some on the drive down to South Devon. But it was Monday, many of the restaurants were not open on Mondays and the ones that were, didn’t have crab on the menu. We had stopped for a light lunch in Totnes, it was grey and more…
Hereford Road – Return
I’ve written before about Hereford Road(the restaurant). We were in London on Sunday night, yes they were open, good to take note of because Sunday can be difficult. The menu is a very personal issue we like it’s ‘Englishness’ and so for us it has lots that is a bit different from the norm. Just more…
Pizarro
José Pizarro at 194 Bermondsey Street is a Spanish restaurant. Our waiter was speaking to several of the diners in Spanish. So I asked him in Spanish what part of Spain he came from, and it turned out that he was actually French. So I switched to French, ending up in a mixture of both! more…
Granger & Co
We had seen some friends in the gallery two or three weeks ago and almost inevitably the subject moved to eating establishments. They are currently living just off Ladbroke Grove whilst they are doing up their house in Notting Hill (how the other half live!). They gave us two or three recommendations and one, Granger more…
Picasso and Kimchee
The Courtauld has long been on of my favourite public galleries in Britain, with its glorious collection of Impressionist paintings on the second floor. There is also its size, it is small. I like my art in manageable chunks, otherwise I suffer from indigestion. They also have a record of putting on delightful exhibitions, and more…
The Summerhouse – revisited
I have already mentioned the above. Last Thursday we were in Little Venice, it was cold but under mostly clear blue skies. I immediately thought of the Summerhouse, to be somewhere where you can appreciate the sun but be inside. We were offered a canal side table for two, I shed the jumper and luxuriated more…
Picasso – almost!
Having visited Ikea and John Lewis for essential supplies we returned to Little Venice, parked and took the tube to the Embankment. The gardens were full of crocuses (two shades of purple) in the mid day sun. Out of the wind it was very Spring like, in it, it was bitter. Entering Somerset House from more…
The Swan – Southrop
I said we would pick her up and she arrived a minute or two before we were due to. I had been out delivering paintings and became delayed. By the time I came downstairs Christine was showing her the latest exhibition due to open on Friday night. She asked me the price of one that more…