K-Town: whether it’s bibimbap, bulgogi or fried chicken, here are our favourite Korean joints in Covent Garden
Words: Catherine Faulkner As Donald Trump carries on his startling dalliance with Kim Jong-un, we in turn continue our more palatable love story with the many delights of Korean food. Fermented cabbage is de rigeur these days and pickling jars are selling on the internet…
The Best Martinis in Covent Garden: Martinis Mr Bond himself would die for
Words: Catherine Faulkner Photography: Sara Lincoln Is there a cocktail more elegant and iconic than the martini? It is a drink to aspire to. A chilled, sleek beacon of true adulthood. Potent too, to be savoured and not knocked back. As Dorothy Parker’s famous bon…
Covent Garden Bites: two new restaurants taking Londoners by storm
Here are two of the best new restaurants to tempt our tastebuds around London’s Covent Garden. DIN TAI FUNG Din Tai Fung is the latest culinary addition to Henrietta Street and brings with it a serious pedigree. Made in Taiwan, there are now over 150…
Sexy Eating – cooking for fitness with rugby professional James Haskell
Cooking for Fitness is James Haskell’s latest book, packed full of nutritious and delicious recipes that have kept him at the peak of physical fitness during his 15 year career as a professional rugby player. During his time at Wasps James would often wander into…
Food Review: The Crusting Pipe
The Crusting Pipe may strike as a slightly peculiar name for a pub to the uninitiated. It conjures wizards and misfits in Potteresque landscapes, brewing ideas over butter beers and sorcery. But no – the name is derived from the barrel used to make ‘crusted…
Food Review: Le Restaurant de Paul
Diana and I had spent a rather lovely morning at the National Portrait Gallery, pretending that we were part of that rascally Bloomsbury Group. Gloomily brooding like Virginia Woolf, albeit sans stones in the pockets. But art does make one hungry, or it makes me hungry,…
Opening now – FOUR new shows for a new season
Here is a round-up of just some of the great entertainment available in and around Covent Garden this Autumn, from exciting new exhibitions opening this month, to the start of The Royal Ballet season, not forgetting a brand new show which promises to be a real giggle…
Perfect Autumn Wine Bars for a cosy night out
What a summer that was! The sun shone her hardest, and we basked in it, but now it gives way to a cooler, softer light and to Autumn, a season in which vines are loaded and blessed with fruit and the sun conspires to ‘bend…
Who said brunch has to be boring? R&B Bottomless Brunch @ Tiger Tiger
You’ve heard of the Tiger Who Came to Tea but have you heard of the Tiger Who Came to R&B? Tiger Tiger off Leicester Square, better known for nights of wild abandon and hedonism, is now offering an altogether more relaxed weekend experience with a…