Jöro
Umami Pushers Google Maps has taken me off kilter. I’m standing in the middle of an industrial estate which has several shades of the outer reaches of edgy Brooklyn about…
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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…
Falstaff Six-Pack Reviews
CLICK BELOW FOR THE FULL SPREAD. Published in Falstaff Magazine. 2022-Summer-Falstaff-Food Sixpack[45]
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…
Romney Marsh
‘The world, according to the best geographers, is divided into Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Romney Marsh’ – Ingoldsby Legends (1837), Reverend Richard Harris Barham The landscape of Romney…
Hythe – Cinque Port Town
Hythe was the original Cinque Port, part of the historic collection of coastal towns formed for military and trade purposes, providing ships for the Crown in return for money and…
Folkestone’s Guildhall Street
For many of us a first visit to Folkestone will begin with a visit to its beaches, with its shingle and sand shoreline and stunning views across to the White…
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…
