The Luxe, Spitalfields

Friday lunch with the girls.  Where to go that isn’t too crowded or too expensive, and oh, not too far from the office? Cue The Luxe Spitalfields, not to be confused with the Galvin brothers-owned Cafe de Luxe, unhelpfully also in Spitalfields. The Luxe has a casual cafe downstairs and a fancier dining room upstairs, [...]

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Pizza East, Shoreditch

I’ve been pretty lazy since returning from Egypt.  Long, heavy meals or lengthy journeys across town have had little appeal the last two weeks.  So last week, when a few coworkers wanted to go out for lunch, Pizza East sounded like the perfect option:  it’s a 5-minute walk from my office, and a meal doesn’t [...]

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Cairo – Last Bits of Advice

I have a dilemma. As dilemmas go, it’s not huge, but it’s my excuse for being a slacker on the blog front these last two weeks. I want to tell you about my week in Egypt over Easter, but every time I think about Egypt, I feel kind of sick. Maybe I’m allergic to Egypt [...]

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Eating Out in Cairo, Egypt

Usually when I choose a holiday destination, I’m thinking about the food first and the sights second. But for Egypt, I reversed these priorities, and only after we’d booked our flights did I start looking into what Egyptian cuisine had to offer. When Jon and I first arrived in Cairo, we were bright-eyed-and-bushy-tailed and excited [...]

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Greetings from Cairo, Egypt

I had every intention of putting up a post before Jon and I left for Cairo, but because Virgin Media continues to fail me at home, it looks like there’s going to be a week-long gap before I can put up anything with photos. In the meantime, Jon and I are on Day 2 in [...]

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