The Blue Pelican
Zushi. What’s in a word? You say sushi. Chef says zushi. Gonna have to Google this one, yep. There’s an obsessiveness here at The Blue Pelican, in all the right…
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The Cove, Fairlight
“Bitterballen, bitches” – this was the message I pinged to my Dutch pals on the second visit to The Cove. They knew this was the fruitiest compliment possible for a…
Restaurant Renaissant
“A good chef is a pied piper, they follow him.” – Marco Pierre White When a tousled haired Marco Pierre White burned brightly at Harveys restaurant between 1987-1993, the…
The Rose Inn
Wickhambreaux was known as Wykeham Brews in 1418. In the Domesday book in 1086 it is mentioned as Wicheham, with a derivation from Anglo Saxon of Wich (coastal trading settlement)…
Red Lion Stodmarsh
When is a pub not a pub? In a tiny village five miles to the east of Canterbury, sits a pub that has a fiercely creative kitchen, yet is still…
The Bridge Arms
“You’re there again?” Three visits within the opening week to a restaurant gets quickly noticed by the sort of pals I have, either with a twang of jealousy on their…
Pompette
Are You Tipsy? ‘Je suis pompette, darling’ – tipsy, tiddly, squiffy, cockeyed, mellow, well-oiled. Oh, the white-heat given off by that second martini, the thwack of booze pulsing through a…
Bottega Caruso
Campanian gem in Margate “Down to Margate, you can keep the Costa Brava, I’m telling ya mate I’d rather have a day down Margate with all me family.” – Chas…
Sorrel
Dorking Deepdene: No One Can Hear You Scream ‘Dorking Deepdene? Does this place even exist? I’m scared.’ So we missed the train from Dorking. The last train that night,…
