How to skip lunch

Those that prefer plants turn your eyes away now – This steak is medium rare! We finally got to sit down at the Chickadee and hubby Mr K’s steakhouse last Friday, and a very pleasant evening it was too, defined by the awesome steaks and other fine food on offer.  Shown above is the 1kg…

Over twenty-five years of intensive traveling, I must have made (I roughly calculate) more than a thousand trips to Heathrow and back.  You would have thought there was little in the limo or minicab business that I had not seen in that time, but on my way to the aerodrome this trip I encountered a…

Magnificent eating in Rouen the other night – showing that at least in some quarters the French bedrock of technique and flair still exists….   I’ve mentioned before my sadness at the decline of French bourgeous restaurants – something that was the pride and hallmark of the nation in prior years.  Kitchen quality and technique…

Following up on French wine in France, this post reflects on the parlous state of bourgeouis Lunch in France. This a potentially tricky situation – with only 11,000 lunches left in my lifetime assuming no early demise, a significant lacuna lurks. Fortunately there is a solution…