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Tanya Gold

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‘Through ecstasy I say: it’s perfect’: The Old Original Bakewell Pudding Shop reviewed

The obvious thing to say about themed restaurants is that they are usually bad. The Rainforest Café in London, for instance, was nothing like a...

18.06.2026 10

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Tanya Gold

The Mini: ‘a car for people who want to be different but aren’t’

The car is populist modern art – I am sorry, reader, meet your plug-in Raphael – and a mirror of the driver’s soul. I am small...

26.05.2026 10

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‘I wanted to lie face down in the hummus’: Erev reviewed

Erev is an Israeli restaurant in Notting Hill, though Israeli restaurants do not call themselves Israeli nowadays. They have rebranded to Eastern...

14.05.2026 10

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Why non-Jews didn’t come to the Extinguish Antisemitism rally

The internecine fights before the Extinguish Antisemitism rally in Whitehall are typical of British Jews, who tend to only speak with one voice when...

12.05.2026 20

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London’s dystopian ‘cocoon’ hotels

Before the cocoon I had never met a hotel I didn’t like. I thought all hotels were interesting. There was the hostel in the walls of old...

27.04.2026 20

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Food to slake boredom: Le Café by Nicolas Rouzaud reviewed

Burlington Arcade on Piccadilly has a caff down from Charbonnel et Walker, where you can buy a box of chocolates as big as a cow, though I never have....

02.04.2026 10

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The Bentley Continental GT is a car for the upper-middle classes

Bentley’s Continental GT has a name to suit it: four voluptuous syllables then two emergency stops. This is the first car I...

01.04.2026 20

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Food / In days of war, we need trifles: Mezzogiorno reviewed

Mezzogiorno is a very serious, golden Italian restaurant inside the Corinthia London Hotel on Northumberland Avenue. Restaurants are increasingly gold...

23.03.2026 20

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Food / In days of war, we need trifles: Mezzogiorno reviewed

Mezzogiorno is a very serious, golden Italian restaurant inside the Corinthia London Hotel on Northumberland Avenue. Restaurants are increasingly gold...

23.03.2026 20

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An ode to Blackpool

Ballroom dancers, suicide cases, charlatans: Blackpool has them all. No place has so much possibility or holds so much of the British soul on...

15.03.2026 20

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Talking to Jeffrey Epstein

11.02.2026 20

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High roller / A Vermeer of a car - the Rolls Royce Ghost Series II

09.02.2026 10

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‘Beloved by Chinese tourists – and the Labour party’: Phoenix Palace reviewed

05.02.2026 20

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Steve Jobs: The twisted genius who turned us all into lonely, anxious addicts

02.02.2026 10

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Food / A restaurant so perfect I hesitated to review it

26.01.2026 30

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A restaurant so perfect I hesitated to review it

22.01.2026 30

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Peril in Prague: The Secret of Secrets, by Dan Brown, reviewed

16.12.2025 20

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Survival here is about logistics: Disneyland Paris reviewed

11.12.2025 20

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Peril in Prague: The Secret of Secrets, by Dan Brown, reviewed

11.12.2025 10

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A right royal travesty: Lilibet’s reviewed

04.12.2025 30

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Food / ‘The food is not the point here’: Carbone reviewed

20.11.2025 10

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My murderous, malfunctioning Aga

18.11.2025 20

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Bagels that even New York can’t beat: Panzer’s Delicatessen reviewed

06.11.2025 20

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Food / Almost too interesting for Notting Hill: Speedboat Bar reviewed

24.10.2025 20

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Almost too interesting for Notting Hill: Speedboat Bar reviewed

23.10.2025 20

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Food / So boring it’s mesmerising: The Place to Eat at John Lewis reviewed

14.10.2025 20

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Palestinian nationalism has come to Cornwall

11.10.2025 20

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So boring it’s mesmerising: The Place to Eat at John Lewis reviewed

09.10.2025 20

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Palestinian nationalism has come to Cornwall

09.10.2025 20

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Revved up / Ferrari and the rise of petrol nationalism

01.10.2025 20

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A Mayfair brasserie for people who work, or at least pretend to: 74 Duke reviewed

25.09.2025 10

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I doubt there’s a better ravioli in London: The Lavery reviewed

11.09.2025 20

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A fictional Edwardian waif’s hungry fantasy: Fortnum & Mason’s food hall reviewed

28.08.2025 20

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Food / ‘Italian that just works’: Broadwick Soho reviewed

19.08.2025 20

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‘Italian that just works’: Broadwick Soho reviewed

14.08.2025 30

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Drink / The chef does not understand sandwiches: Raffles London at the OWO reviewed

05.08.2025 20

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The chef does not understand sandwiches: Raffles London at the OWO reviewed

31.07.2025 20

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Picture perfect: Locatelli at the National Gallery reviewed

17.07.2025 20

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‘This is as good as food gets in London’ – Town, in Drury Lane, reviewed

03.07.2025 10

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How to humiliate a Range Rover driver

02.07.2025 20

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Food / A man’s restaurant: Victor Garvey at the Midland Grand reviewed

24.06.2025 10

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Food / A man’s restaurant: Victor Garvey at the Midland Grand reviewed

24.06.2025 10

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Food / A man’s restaurant: Victor Garvey at the Midland Grand reviewed

24.06.2025 10

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Food / ‘Rushed and under-loved and lacking conviction’: Hawksmoor Canary Wharf reviewed

10.06.2025 10

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The truth about Sydney Sweeney’s bathwater

08.06.2025 20

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Water power / The truth about Sydney Sweeney’s bathwater

06.06.2025 20

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Water power / The truth about Sydney Sweeney’s bathwater

05.06.2025 10

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The truth about Sydney Sweeney’s bathwater

05.06.2025 10

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Food that’s both serious and serene: Babbo reviewed

22.05.2025 20

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Everything Ottolenghi should be but isn’t: Delamina Townhouse reviewed

09.05.2025 10

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