Tom heads west for fine autumn ingredients served swellegantly straight from the farm Unlike its amphibian namesake, The Newt is not small, and it’s certainly not shy. An epic seven years in the making, this rather magnificent Somerset hotel, from South African businessman Koos Bekker and his wife, Karen Roos, has lavishly landscaped gardens, a … Read more
Tom Parker Bowles & Olly Smith: Eating out and drinks By Tom Parker Bowles & Olly Smith Published: 00:01 BST, 18 October 2020 | Updated: 00:01 BST, 18 October 2020 The clubby interior of Noble Rot Soho Eating out: Hungarian flourishes pay homage to this Soho restaurant’s legendary predecessor If you can remember the 1960s, goes … Read more
The clubby interior of Noble Rot Soho Hungarian flourishes pay homage to this Soho restaurant’s legendary predecessor If you can remember the 1960s, goes the old adage, then you probably weren’t there. I feel the same way about The Gay Hussar. Because despite hard evidence of my visiting this legendary Soho stalwart (old diaries, tattered … Read more
Tom Parker Bowles & Olly Smith: Eating out and drinks By Tom Parker Bowles & Olly Smith Published: 00:02 BST, 11 October 2020 | Updated: 00:02 BST, 11 October 2020 The Oyster club’s finest, served bloody-mary style Tom discovers a seafood heaven hideaway – in Birmingham The Oyster Club, a merry stroll from Birmingham’s New … Read more
If caviar’s your thing, Bellamy’s will oblige Eating out In these uncertain times, this old-school eatery offers reassuringly impeccable quality and service At Bellamy’s, a discreetly civilised restaurant a mere Lobb’s trot off Berkeley Square, it is forever cocktail hour. You pass through the Oyster Bar, with its softly scarlet walls and Jaguar green leather … Read more
Delicate, elegant Afghani dishes at Ariana II Eating out Afghanistan comes to London via Midtown Manhattan – and the results are stunning It’s not often you find an offshoot of a Manhattan restaurant on Kilburn High Road. But Ariana II, not so much a sequel as transatlantic sibling, has been on this sootily urban Northwest … Read more
The converted barge has been a Bristolian favourite for decades Tom travels west to visit a waterside eaterie serving the freshest local catch It feels apt, surrounded by water and sitting in a restaurant called Fish. Beneath our feet, the Avon flows, all quiet, muddy magnificence, while above, the British summer hammers down, not so much … Read more
Eating out Tom travels west to visit a waterside eaterie serving the freshest local catch It feels apt, surrounded by water and sitting in a restaurant called Fish. Beneath our feet, the Avon flows, all quiet, muddy magnificence, while above, the British summer hammers down, not so much damp as downright sodden. Yet inside this … Read more
For a reliably refined flavour of France, Tom heads to a favourite haunt Familiarity doesn’t always breed contempt. In fact, when it comes to my favourite restaurants, the opposite is invariably true. Sometimes, I know exactly what I want to eat, and exactly where to eat it. Where consistency trumps novelty, and the experience is … Read more
Eating out Flora at joy serves only the freshest ingredients This West London pop-up brings a welcome helping of joyous seasonal cooking It’s been a while since I first sat on this concrete terrace, gazing out over a sun-baked, concrete-hewn West London skyline. A decade, to be precise, back when the space was known as … Read more