Month: April 2006

“It’s hard to have high expectations of a restaurant whose culinary claim to fame is banoffi pie”. Last week I was pootling around the Cots­wolds, being a professional eater and an amateur antique-hunter, visiting churches and gazing into estate agents’ windows. It was lovely, of course, but did give me intimations of… well, certainly of …

“One associates the slogan ‘Relaxed Fine Dining’ with middle-aged men in Pringle golf sweaters”. Congratulations are in order. I’ve been ban­ned from a restaurant. This has been achieved without becoming paralytic and throwing up over a table, dancing on top of or passing out underneath one. I have not asked for my meat to be …