The 1980s relics of Langan's Brasserie
Langan’s Brasserie announces its presence with a long, pink neon line of Langanses, tootling prettily along its façade, which is…
Tanya Gold: Child-friendly, sex-free, nut-heavy – just the hotel for my 40th birthday
Woolley Grange is a child-friendly country house hotel that seems, at first, entirely monstrous — a grey Tudor house in…
Tanya Gold: The sheer horror of Hyde Park's Winter Wonderland
Winter Wonderland is a Christmas-themed playground that lands on the sorry part of Hyde Park in November; the part that…
Tanya Gold: Eating in the lobby at Canary Wharf
One Canada Square was the original glass house in east London’s Gotham City, a thrilling tower with a flashing pyramid…
Boulestin has nothing to do with Marcel Boulestin — but could entice Mary Berry
Boulestin is a pretty restaurant on St James’s Street, between the posh fag shop (Davidoff) and the old palace, which…
Food: Heston’s brown Dinner, with a side order of irritation
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, a brown cavern in the Mandarin Oriental hotel, Knightsbridge, has won a second Michelin star. These…
Gordon Ramsay's violently unsexy new restaurant shows he's near the end
The Union Street Café is in a dismal, dingy part of London; dismal dingy Southwark. Southwark, in fact, is almost…
The Wild Rabbit's food may be organic - but nothing else there is
The Wild Rabbit is a pub in the Cotswolds, that small corner of Britain full of evil grinning cottages; if…
A restaurant in a synagogue. How strange can it be?
A restaurant in a synagogue may be too mad even for this column but we are Jews, so why not?…
A Roald Dahl tea? It reminds me more of Jimmy Savile
One Aldwych, an Edwardian grand hotel near Waterloo Bridge, is serving a Jimmy Savile tribute tea. It is not explicitly…
‘Like a concentration camp run by KFC’: Tanya Gold visits Shake Shack
Shake Shack is a hamburger restaurant in Covent Garden market. It came from New York and it is as needy…
Tanya Gold on eating at the Shard
What to say about the Shard that isn’t said by the fact it is 1,020 feet high and looks like…
Tanya Gold eats suckling pig at Le Café Anglais
I write this column at the point of a pitchfork. A, normally so placid — ‘He’s so placid!’ people like…
