Following on from our previous reviews of the North West & N. Ireland chefs appearing in BBC’s Great British Menu , week 3 sees a heat for chefs from the South West, Judged by Sat Bains (whose restaurant, Sat Bains, we reviewed previously and yet again there’s access but no disabled facilities – maybe the BBC are…
We started looking at the accessibility of the restaurants of the Chefs taking part in the BBC’s Great British Menu – this year it’s for veterans of the D-Day Landings in WWII – some of whom I’m sure are frail or suffering from a disability. Week 2 the North West heat, had Daniel Clifford of Midsummer…
Last week I met with Russell Hall, one of the founders of Hailo, a free smartphone app that gets you a licensed taxi without needing to hail one from the street. He’s a very charming cabbie and I love the app because I can usually get a cab within 5-10 minutes and they don’t know I’m…
It’s been a while since her last postcard, but we’ve heard again from Ann in Vietnam. This time she’s reporting back from the nation’s capital, telling us about the most stylish places in Hanoi and assessing how accessible they are too: Hanoi is a bit like Marmite…. you are going to love it or hate…
This week has been a trial by pavement. My bones have been shaken & stirred and not in a good way. Firstly, I and the Mancunian Lieutenant decided that after a hair appointment in Richmond, we should wheel down to the Crown in Twickenham (great pub with fab garden see previous review). Little did I…
This week I headed to Fitzrovia to try out the fantastic Ollie Dabbous’ new, lower budget, restaurant. Charlotte Street is a real haven for style seekers and discerning diners and The Barnyard proved to be no exception. First of all, the food was excellent – quite basic on paper but absolutely fantastically flavoured and brilliant value too.…
We recently wrote about accessible fine dining in Manchester and now we’re going further afield to Lymm in Cheshire where Aiden Byrne has his first restaurant/pub – The Church Green. He won the fish course in The Great British Menu 2013 for Comic Relief. He served ‘A Culinary Joke’ which was a reworked prawn cocktail…
This week I’m going to be brief for no other reason than I’m hurting from the Man Utd defeat by Man City! I need to lick my wounds with a few drinks. First I went to the newly refurbished Avenue restaurant & bar from DandDLondon, in St James’ Piccadilly – ‘Where Manhattan Meets Mayfair’. It…
Manchester is a thriving city and even more so since MediaCityUK, Salford, became home to BBC Breakfast, Match of the Day & Jeremy Kyle (OMG are they sure they want to advertise this fact). Nevertheless we thought we’d take a look at the top restaurants and assess their accessibility. First up is The French & Mr…