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Pret a Manger, Regent’s Place, London NW1
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:30:41 +0000With few options available to people working in Regent’s Place the Pret a Manger shop attracts many a morning rush hour customer. Lunchtimes are no different with queues coming out the door between 12noon and 1.00pm. What I don’t understand is why. Yesterday I stopped for lunch and bought a jalapeno chicken wrap, latte coffee and [...]Marks and Spencer goes all Dell Boy with their food.
Wed, 03 Sep 2008 08:24:41 +0000While I sat having breakfast in my hotel’s soulless restaurant; like many other guests, I ignored everyone making slurping, coughing, grinding noises by reading my paper. The Times reported today that Marks and Spencer are dropping their upmarket “It’s not just food…. It’s Marks and Spencer’s food” advert campaign for one that will be replaced [...]Balfour Italian Restaurant, 75-77 Marchmont Street, London WC1N 1AP
Mon, 01 Sep 2008 20:40:39 +0000In Bloomsbury sits the Balfour Italian Restaurant on Marchmont Street, London. We arrived at around 7.30pm this evening and took a table for two. There were ten other diners eating what looked like nicely prepared meals, so we looked forward to our own. I ordered up a Tomato Bruschetta at £4.95 and a Rib Eye [...]Jura Impressa F70 Coffee Machine
Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:08:19 +0000The lady at Peter Maturi in Leeds, certainly answered the questions we asked with confidence. The Jura Impressa F70 after a little haggling was ours and we left the store happy. Getting it home, the set up was fairly straight forward and having read the instructions to the letter, our first home made frothy coffee was [...]Espresso Bar, Harvey Nichols, 107-111 Briggate (Victoria Quarter), Leeds LS1 6AZ
Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:49:07 +0000While pondering a major purchase, Dusty and I took a break in the Espresso Bar at Harvey Nichols in Leeds. We had to wait about 5 minutes to get a table because it was so busy, but with lots of eye candy on show and walking by, this was not a problem. The maitre’d showed [...]Dove Cottage Nursery & Garden, Shibden Hall Road, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX3 9XA
Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:00:48 +0000A short drive from junction 27 on the M62 between Leeds and Manchester is the Dove Cottage Nursery and Garden on Shibden Hall Road, Halifax. Specialising in hardy herbaceous perennials and grasses Dusty wanted to visit to pick up some particular plant that is only available here and in one other nursery in the UK. [...]Grand Central Train Service
Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:10:11 +0000While waiting at York for the 8:36am East Coast National Express train to London I noticed the late running Grand Central train, that also heads to London pull out of the station. It looked nearly empty so I counted the number of heads as the train slowly crawled by. 49 in total, not including the [...]Crowne Plaza Hotel, Downing Street, Cambridge
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 19:46:31 +0000Dusty and I spent the weekend staying at the Crowne Plaza on Downing Street in Cambridge. We checked in on Friday 26th Aug and were met my typical Cambridge service! We had to ask the porters at the door to take our bags. They didn’t offer. This might have been because we weren’t exactly dressed [...]John Lewis Brasserie, 10 Downing Street, Cambridge
Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:35:50 +0000On Monday we discovered the Brasserie on the top floor of the new John Lewis store in Cambridge. It was contemporary in design and could cater for up to 160 covers. With views across Cambridge roof tops, it was a pleasant environment to spend some time in. We ordered up a Traditional Breakfast (£6.50) for [...]Curry Garden, Regents Street, Cambridge
Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:10:14 +0000Last night having returned to Cambridge from London, we wanted to revisit The Gulshan for reasons of Nostalgia. This was a favourite Indian Restaurant of ours when Dusty and I lived in Cambridge and our record of arriving, having Poppadoms, a Starter, a Main and a pint of Kingfisher and leaving was 27 minutes. We [...]Nando’s Restaurant, 33-34 St Andrew Street, Cambridge, CB2 3AR
Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:46:57 +0000Saturday gone us visiting Nando’s Restaurant on St Andrew Street in Cambridge with the family and kids for an early dinner. The place was very busy and the service was very quick despite this. Ordering up our fayre it arrived within minutes and given you know what to expect from Nando’s, it was bang on. [...]Scudamore’s, Boating and Punting, Cambridge, England
Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:41:53 +0000Dusty and I would have been able to provide you with a review of Scudamore’s Boating and Punting in Cambridge yesterday. However after spending two minutes waiting at the booking desk, while four ‘just out of school girls on work experience’ chatted instead of serving us, we walked off keeping our money in our pockets. [...]The Orchard Tea Garden, 45-47 Mill Way, Grantchester, Cambridgeshire, CB3 9ND
Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:36:56 +0000“The Orchard - a corner of England where time stands still as the outside world rushes by.” This taken from their website is a reasonably good description of The Orchard in Grantchester. Famous for poets, scientists and medics alike going back many many years, this place has a long historic association with Cambridge University. Yesterday, [...]The Granta, 14 Newnham Terrace, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, CB3 9EX
Sun, 24 Aug 2008 08:24:06 +0000Yesterday (Saturday 24th Aug 08), we arrived looking for a coffee break at The Granta on Newnham Terrace in Cambridge. It was around 11.30am and we noticed after placing our order at the bar, that the garden to the rear (the one with the best views of the river) would be closed from noon until [...]Born in the Garden, Cambridge Arts Theatre, starring Stephanie Cole and Simon Shepherd.
Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:14:32 +0000We went along to see Born in the Garden starring Stephanie Cole and Simon Shepherd at the Cambridge Arts Theatre yesterday evening. A play about Maud and her son Mo who live in a decaying mock Tudor house in Bristol. She chats to people on the telly, he converses with the cat and both share a penchant [...]
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