In improving Covent Garden, a dining-and-entertainment venue where the food is better than par for the course; and a handy lunchtime rendezvous too. Sometimes even the smoothly oiled Harden’s inspection programme derails. As the subject of this piece is a cabaret venue, we had obviously intended to visit in the evening. Serendipity, however, had other […]

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100 yards from Big Ben, a comfortable but institutional dining room, offering classic Roux-family Gallic fare, of consistently good quality. The critical world, in particular, is becoming less tolerant of the ‘same old formulae’ these days. That is not good news for openings such as this recent addition to the empire of the Roux family […]

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