Sometimes it's nice to get out of London. Not much, but sometimes. And Windsor is a good destination as any to do so; trains from Waterloo or Paddington take under and hour and a return is about a tenner. Unfortunately, the day I needed to get there all hell had broken loose at Paddington and no trains were going anywhere. Ideal. I jumped in an Uber with a trusty pop up wine and even with Friday night traffic 45 minutes later was happily ensconsed in Browns (everyone goes the

Foxlow, from the people who brought us Hawksmoor, is styled as a 'neighbourhood restaurant' with a heavy emphasis on well sourced, well cooked meat - unsuprisingly. Perhaps if you have the cold hard cash to live in Clerkenwell then it may indeed feel like a neighbourhood restaurant, but to those of us having to travel in from zone 3 it feels pretty darn fancy. In a good way. We chose Foxlow as our location for a late Sunday lunch with friends recently, and got things off to a

Tagliata simply translates as 'cut' or 'sliced' in Italian but it always refers to a dish of sliced steak, and it usually sits atop a simple bed of rocket and parmesan salad. This is a slight variation on that, as I added roast broccoli and was quite heavy handed with lemon and rosemary for seasoning. I served it with some nice fresh focaccia that I'd been sent by Dell'Ugo and you can buy in the chilled section at Waitrose. I beefed it up (pun fully intended) with some roaste

Trying to book somewhere in London for a special dinner is harder than you may think. With two weeks' notice sensibly timed tables at Kitty Fishers, Berners Tavern, City Social, Sky Garden - the brasserie and the restaurant - were all no-go's for a Friday night. We put ourselves in the safe hands of Mark Hix and settled on his New York style chicken and steak haven, Hix City. With neon signage from Tracey Emin and a definite contemporary cool, Hix is no stuffy City boy steake

Veal can be divisive, as I wrote about here, but I really think it is time it properly came back. It's such a tasty meat and has the benefit of feeling a bit like a treat, and its nice to have a change from usual mature beef or steaks. I always use half veal and half pork mince for bolognese and it really makes a difference with a much more delicate and authentic flavour, and from time to time we splash out on a fancy veal chop from Ginger Pig as an alternative to a big old r

The beady-eyed among you will note that I have already mentioned MASH in the 'My Favourites' part of the site, so it will come as no great surprise that this is a glowing review of this glam steak house just off the Soho side of Regent Street. It is easily up there in the top three with Goodman's and Hawksmoor, but no one I ever speak to about it seems to have heard of it and this is astounding. Sure, it has a fairly modest exterior, but venture down the stairs and you will h

Last night we found ourselves stuck in the City at rush hour with a pram, and with the thought of battling the crowds at liftless Bank station too much to bear decided to cut our losses and try to find somewhere for dinner. Our usual faves (the One Lombard brasserie / Coq d'Argent) were out of the question due to the baby and buggy situation, so we had almost resigned ourselves to finding a decent chain (Jamie's Italian / Byron) when we thought it worth a punt to ring up L'En

Brunching is fast becoming one of my favourite things to do on a weekend. D&D seem to be excelling themselves at creating lovely lovely places in which to eat a selection of delicious brunch dishes whilst quaffing as many fizzy wine based drinks as humanly possible, and I for one am thrilled about it. Last weekend saw four hungry, prosecco hunting women descend on their latest outpost - South Place Hotel in the city - to take advantage of their very silly brunch offering, and