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  • Mole and Chicken 7/10

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    Picture from the Mole and Chicken web site (merci!) Anyhow, back to the review of the Mole and Chicken. No it is not called thus because they serve mole & chicken pie. However this gastropub in Easington, Bucks offers some quite tasty fare in attractive… Read More ›

  • Dear Santa

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    Yes, yes, yes, one knows that it is a long way off but Xmas has already arrived in all the shop windows on the streets of Londinium. Even McSpigget’s wants one to book early for their Xmas Xtravaganza! Harrumph! Monsieur… Read More ›

  • 21+9+4.5 = Heaven

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    You’re on course 15, only 6 desserts to go” said the waitress with a cheery smile. Yikes! One had already been dining for three hours and one hadn’t even got to dessert. All six of them awaited us! One had ventured to L’enclume. The restaurant resides in… Read More ›

  • The lure of the kilt!

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    The siren call of the Lake District and  Scotland could not be ignored. Just two days back from the “Tour de France” and with one’s gastronomic tastebuds sated by the delights of French cuisine then we were off again! . So into the… Read More ›

  • France – la conclusion!

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    Now, where were we? Ah yes…Bordeaux. From here one pointed the sharabang north to the highly attractive seaport of La Rochelle in the Bay of Biscay. Arriving in glorious sunshine we sought out Le Bar Andre, a fishy eatery that has been here since 1947. A man… Read More ›

  • Tour de France – Part deux

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    The Tour de France continued throughout September. Four weeks of girth enhancing gourmandary and unlike the real Tour de France…. no drugs!! Apologies to one’s loyal followers, the excursion took it’s toll and has severely hampered one’s posts. However, one visited many interesting eateries which should interest one’s… Read More ›

  • La Belle France

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    One has wended one’s way from blighty to the sunny paradise of St. Tropez on the Cote d’Azur where one is the guest of one’s chums Maximillian Vadeboncoeur and Philippe La Rochefoucauld. With Fortescue in tow, one’s trek southwards meandered… Read More ›

  • Down by the Riverside

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    A large dose of culture is always a boon to one’s libido even though the old grey matter might be somewhat more pickled these days.  So, in cahoots with Fortescue one abandoned the big smoke of olde London towne and ventured to Houghton Hall to see the… Read More ›

  • Dishoom delivers… 8/10 – ££

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    “Meet at 12.15 on Thursday at Dishoom” texted Pettigrow.  As a fellow gourmand and lunch companion extraordinaire, one knows that Pettigrow’s recommended rendezvous would prove a worthwhile sortie. Thursday was a sweltering, yet beautiful English summer’s day. One wished to be reclining in a deckchair in the countryside enjoying a cream… Read More ›

  • The Doctor graces Cardiff

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    It was into the olde sharabang and orf we trundled down the M4, destination Cardiff. (it’s in Wales for you chaps and chapesses overseas..ahem). One’s thoughts returned to a visit to Cardiff seventeen years earlier. The memories were of a grim, dirty… Read More ›