The Foody Traveller
Danielle and I enjoy trying out new lunch venues and so it was that the other day we set off to 144 On The Hill, a recently revamped restaurant and bar within the Richmond Hill Hotel. The hotel is actually at the top of the hill, a big sprawling old building almost next to Richmond […]
‘Catch the 49 bus outside High Street Kensington tube station’, the friend I was meeting told me, ‘and get off at Warwick Gardens – three stops’. She was right. I got off the bus and found myself right outside no 343 Kensington High St and the Romulo Café; a Filipino restaurant gaining a serious reputation […]
My friend Felicity and I ventured north of the river last week, to try out ULI. This is a Pan-Asian restaurant, offering an enticing-looking selection of Chinese, Thai, Singaporean and Malay dishes; it’s handy for Notting Hill tube, situated on a quiet corner of a mainly residential road, opposite a handsomely refurbished Victorian cabmen’s shelter. […]
Last week Miranda and I met up in White City to try out Shola, a new Pakistani restaurant. Shola means “spark” in Urdu and with all the regeneration that’s currently going on, this area is certainly selling itself as sparky right now. A new theatre’s opening this summer, Imperial College has established its White City […]
We are a cheese loving family but Džiugas cheese, in spite of a visit to Lithuania, was new to us. Džiugas cheese does indeed come from Lithuania; made from milk produced by cows that have grazed on grass in a national park. A cheese with a legend There is a legend associated with the cheese. It […]
Gina and I met up recently for a weekday lunch at Toomai Square in East Greenwich. A sleek and modern feel The restaurant is big and easy to find, occupying the glass-walled ground floor of a modern block at the corner of Woolwich Road and Vanbrugh Hill. It’s a big, high-ceilinged, light and airy space […]