Enoteca Turi, the long-running Italian restaurant with a famous wine list, has closed down quietly a year after the retirement of founders Giuseppe and Pamela Turi. The Turis launched the restaurant in Putney in 1990, transferring it successfully to Pimlico in 2015. Their personal touch – and Giuseppe’s encyclopaedic knowing of Italian wines – combined to […]
Chef Aaron Potter opens his debut restaurant, Wildflowers, today in Newson’s Yard, a former Pimlico timber yard converted into a new ‘design destination’. Billed as ‘Mediterranean-inspired’, with high-quality seasonal produce cooked over coals, Wildflowers has a separate wine bar upstairs serving cicchetti-style snacks. Most recently executive chef at Maria G’s, Aaron has previously worked for […]
Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons, Great Milton “I couldn’t take any risks for my wife’s 50th birthday weekend… so I placed my trust in Raymond’s impeccable hotel and restaurant… result: perfection!” M Blanc’s “magnificent”converted Elizabethan manor boasts a “dream location” in a picture-book village south of Oxford and, “if you want to spoil someone with […]
Clos Maggiore WC2 “You feel that love is in the air!” at this “very special” destination (yet again the survey’s No. 1 choice for a romantic occasion), especially in “the inner sanctum” – “the lovely glass-roofed courtyard at the back, hung with blossom, a roof that opens in fine weather, and with an open fire […]
