Author: Anna Hyman

A tearoom recommendation: we motored over to St Margaret’s at Cliffe, near Dover. On the cliff stands a former coastguard station with a popular tea room on the ground floor – the Bluebird Tearoom.

When we called in at Askham Hall, near Penrith, at the beginning of July 2012 the new Kitchen Garden Cafe was well underway, the outdoor wood-fired oven had arrived and the new chef, Simone Corrias, was due any day.

I had arranged to meet a friend at Central & Co, a brasserie in Great Marlborough Street just off London’s Regent Street. I had not been there before and wasn’t sure quite where it was but much to my delight even from a distance I could see its discreet but clean-cut lettered sign.