With a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much fun
Babbo
Film
This is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflection
Bright Star
Theatre
Although the first half of Kwei-Armah’s production is pacy, funny and intelligent, the energy level then drops off
Seize The Day
I loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.
I saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.
I have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyoto
London,
29.10.09
The whole Aqua Kyoto operation isn't really about eating, so much as going out, seeing and being seen, consuming to the limit.
23.10.09
Nick Griffin is not a sympathetic man. He completely lacks charisma and he doesn’t speak persuasively
22.10.09
Seven Park Place by William Drabble is certainly a great improvement on Andaman by Dieter Muller but David Sexton left feeling uncomfortable.
13.10.09
In re-imagining the relationship between WH Auden and Benjamin Britten for his new play, Alan Bennett returns to a theme close to his heart.
08.10.09
The Luxe is a well-presented restaurant and as you sit down you feel sure you’re going to have a good time there. Then the food starts to arrive.
01.10.09
Neither Russell Norman nor Tom Oldroyd are Italian monikers. Yet this pair have just opened a resolutely Venetian bar-with-food in central Soho.
24.09.09
Tenore displays the Sardinian flag proudly, with two whopping ones draped over the front window and another flying inside over the bar.
15.09.09
Not all writers understand the importance of maintaining product continuity. They think they are too good to repeat themselves. They try something...
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10.09.09
The Games forced fish smoker H Forman to move, but you can now eat its produce at the new premises
08.09.09
Not one of this year's Man Booker shortlisted novels is set in the present. Perhaps we don't have any contemporary stories to tell?
03.09.09
A great riverside location in Canary Wharf doesn't compensate for the lacklustre food at Lower East Liquor Bar & Bistro.
02.09.09
Whatever her other long-term achievements may turn out to be, Katie Price deserves respect for having so completely had it over the whole publishing...
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27.08.09
The Fellow offers a big ground-floor room with good spacing between the tables and a sedate, mannerly air.
20.08.09
Until the advent of Garufa: Argentine Grill, Highbury has never had much to offer in the way of restaurants
13.08.09
The Brill is an heroic effort but the crowded dining room was noisy, the atmosphere too close and the service a bit stretched.
23.07.09
Dining in Planet Hollywood is like being trapped in some kind of psychedelic multi-storey car park, says David Sexton.
17.07.09
Cultural history is a wretched business. It's not a discipline of any kind: not science, not literature, certainly not history. At best, it's a...
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16.07.09
Historic buildings need not serve historically bad food, as The Restaurant at St Paul's proves.
14.07.09
George III got it right, I think. He once said he was always glad to hear of the death of an author - because then he knew he'd got the fellow...
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09.07.09
As baggage restrictions on budget airlines are so mean, it’s crucial to choose your holiday reading wisely. Here are some books that truly deserve to...
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