Food
Friendly and ghostlike
Kaspar’s Seafood Bar and Grill is named for superstition, snobbery and avarice. At a dinner at the Savoy in 1898…
An ice-cream war
The Antica Roma is an ice-cream shop near the Spanish Steps in Rome; recently, it served four English tourists called…
Steak, chips and misogyny
STK is a steakhouse at the bottom of the ME Hotel on the Aldwych. (This is a real name for…
There will be spuds
Exmouth Market is a small collection of paved streets near the Farringdon Travelodge, which specialises in monomaniacal restaurants and has…
In the Ritz
The Ritz Hotel is a cake on Piccadilly made of stone; inside this cake, Lady Thatcher died. Some think it…
The dark heart of the Café Royal
The Ten Room is the -restaurant inside the new Café Royal Hotel, which occupies the curve of Regent Street from…
Loo role
I love metaphor, and now metaphor has led me to a toilet near Goodge Street, in that thankless patch of…
Marching out of Balthazar
Balthazar is a golden cave in Covent Garden, in the old Theatre (Luvvie) Museum, home to dead pantomime horses and…
