Tracer Hand, newly arrived in London, eats pizza with me in Chinatown, and tells of the Mexican restaurants in New York City which are run and staffed by the Chinese. I approve, obv – at least if vice versa is established also, soon (and all ot[…]

I’m sure I’d make a terrible barman, and I’m sure my first night on the job would be a disaster, but I’m also sure I’d be nowhere near as bizarrely inept as the girl who served me after work last night. ‘I’d […]

Battered potato pizza Wellington – or BPP en croute, if you forget which side actually triumphed at Waterloo. The freedom to imagine a dish like this may even be the reason the battle was fought.[…]

The Hare And Tortoise, Brunswick Centre, WC1.
Where do you go for comfort food? That quick pick-me-up, that stuff your face feeling. A meal that you know will always be of the same quality and will always fill you up and make you feel better afterwar[…]

Whitechapel has featured in a surprisingly high number of my posts to the Publog over the years. And here I am again to offer evidence as a rapid rebuttal to Pete’s mental idea that tellies in pubs should be for sport only. Get yourself down to[…]

The Sun And 13 Cantons is not a bad pub, in as much as it is a pub at all. Yes it is overpriced, yes its wipe down clean tables are aspiring to bardom: but they are catering for a media kind of market who like that kind of thing. I am not sure though[…]

HERE’S WHAT I HATE #1: CABBAGE!! Two minor celebrations running I have had to pick my way delicately through an otherwise excellent meal – once at Stockpots in Old Compton Street (Fried Liver and Onions) and once at the Korean restaurant […]

I was having a sniff around for information on Punch Taverns, who are Britain’s second biggest pub owners but who don’t brand their pubs as aggressively as do Wetherspoons. I was doing this because Wetherspoons’ latest results are p[…]

CHEAP FOOD I LOVE No.2 ‘ The Kraft Cheese Slice
Individually wrapped! Cheese slices are a very tactile food, which is the secret of their since-childhood appeal to me. The peeling back of the wrap, the separation of slice from plastic, the smoo[…]

The Aberdeen Angus Steak House I have always been assured is some sort of money laundering operation. Think about it. They have well over twenty restaurants in prime locations in central London. To your tax inspector in Bradford or East Kilbride this[…]