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EATING OUT NORTH LONDON RESTAURANTS | | | |
OUT TO LUNCH
Joseph Connolly experiences the glory of being a tsar and meets a Russian spy, all without leaving Chalk Farm! I went to Russia the other evening. Well all right, then… more the Chalk Farm end of Regent s Park Road. Da. Where there nestles a restaurant... » MORE
FOR years, the York and Albany was a crumbling architectural gem on English Heritage s at risk register . Part of Nash s scheme for Regent s Park, its listed status meant it couldn t be bulldozed. But after decades lying derelict, who would have the cash... » MORE
Boris Johnson was in the back of our cab. Two Boris Johnsons. Well four, actually, if it s accuracy we re seeking. Not lookalikes, no, but a pair of pictures of a pair of Boris Johnsons on the underside of the flip-up seats. Here were the familiar lit... » MORE
A hapless kite flier as a boy – like the melancholic Peanuts character – Joseph Connolly can now saunter past the show-offs on Parliament Hill to The Bull and Last – a gastropub that s living up to its hype Charlie Brown, the melancholic Peanuts philoso... » MORE
Novelist Joseph Connolly was very impressed when he first entered the Hampstead institution that is the Holly Bush pub. Then he tried ordering a meal and waited . . and waited . . . and waited What s his name …? It s on the tip of my … oh God – what s he... » MORE
On top of facing bad news from a commissioning editor, novelist Joseph Connolly not only has to face a paltry portion of chicken (at more than 30 quid!) but he can t even afford a whole bottle of wine at Tate Britain School hols – dontcha love em? You... » MORE
IN those grim and ribless far-off days when Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy was looming large in the doom-laden media, you might have thought twice about opening a restaurant dedicated to the glory of beef in Maddox Street. It is akin, in these Swine Fl... » MORE
Joseph Connolly is thankful the meal at one of Gordon Ramsay s places didn t cost him a monkey The chimps tea party – when, as a child, I was taken to the zoo, that for me was the main attraction. Most of the other animals I found to be either stinky... » MORE
Joseph Connolly treats the Birthday Girl to a wonderful meal his wallet will never forget Have you checked the rating at the end of the piece yet? I expect so – human nature really, when reviews are strewn with asterisks. So, yes – rather startling, isn... » MORE
OFFERING good food at the right price is becoming more and more important in these fiscally-challenging days, and so the timing of Bradleys elevation into the Michelin Bib Gourmand elite could not have been better. The Winchester Road restaurant is one of... » MORE
Well, what do we think of the new-look Budgens, now called Thornton s Budgens, since Andrew Thornton acquired it almost a year ago, having bought the store in Crouch End in 2006? Isn t it vastly more expensive than the high street supermarket chains? Well... » MORE
Vegetarian restaurants haven t really caught on in the UK. It s true that vegetarians are generally better catered for than they once were, and have more choice here than in many European countries, but meat-free dining could still do with a makeover. Th... » MORE
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