A belated Merry Christmas and Happy Hannukah to everyone! One of the downsides of living abroad is having to set aside two weeks of holiday every year to do the Tour de Home Country. But being away makes reunions sweeter, and at the very least, we’re more appreciative of America’s pros than when we lived [...]
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Christmas 2008
Posted in Travel on December 29, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Murano Restaurant, Mayfair
Posted in Everyday in London, London Eating, tagged Angela Hartnett, Gordon Ramsay, Italian in London, Mayfair, Murano, panettone on December 20, 2008 | 10 Comments »
After a hectic past few weeks, I’m finally away for the holidays. Yay! A foot of snow has just dumped down on the northeast US, and now that I’m no longer traveling, it’s lovely to see the blanket of white outside. Just before I left London, I tried the £25 lunch menu at Angela Hartnett’s [...]
Petersham Nurseries Cafe, Richmond
Posted in Everyday in London, London Eating, tagged farinata, London Daytrips, London restaurants, Modern British in London, Petersham Nurseries, Richmond on December 8, 2008 | 11 Comments »
Soon after my friend made our reservations at Petersham Nurseries Cafe (you have to call about a month in advance), I saw that New Yorker in London had popped over and enjoyed it, which was encouraging, but I still had a few weeks to wait patiently. Last weekend, our day finally arrived, and – what [...]
Mien Tay, Dalston
Posted in London Eating, tagged Dalston, Mien Tay, Vietnamese in London on December 5, 2008 | 5 Comments »
What a difference a few months can make. I first visited Mien Tay in late June 2008 (soon after it got a nice writeup in TimeOut) and then again just a few weeks ago, in November. My notes of the first experience amounted to “good food, overwhelmed service” (because of the exposure it got from [...]
November 2008 Stats
Posted in Everyday in London, Islington, tagged butchers in islington, E. Wood, James Elliott, Urbanspoon on December 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »
First of all, happy Thanksgiving (four days late). I had a fab one, though this year Jon and I made our lives a little easier and had friends over on Saturday, not Thursday. The only downside we found on the Saturday option was that our nearby butcher, E. Wood, couldn’t give us a turkey on [...]
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