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Precious is a new-style weepie but one that is much more bracing than depressing
Precious
Theatre
Ian McKellen is captivating throughout. He delights in the play’s gallows humour, yet is also maudlin and poignant
Waiting for Godot
Theatre
Slight quibbles notwithstanding, this will set the West End’s stock riding high
Enron
Utterly, utterly brilliant. You really are in for a treat
Though 'Trilogy' has won rave reviews, I personally found myself exasperated after about an hour
We went on a quiet sunday evening and the food was excellent, but the experience let down by the service and ambiance
London,
04.02.10
While other venues lap up Michelin acclaim, one charming Thameside venture has earned its rating unnoticed. The Bingham is definitely one to watch.
28.01.10
Gregg Wallace of Masterchef fame has opened his own restaurant, Wallace & Co, in Putney. Here's Fay Maschler's verdict.
21.01.10
Food, drink and conversation are no longer considered enough, it seems, to add up to a good time for those eating out these days
14.01.10
Gemma Tuley is thriving in the more casual environment of her new Fulham restaurant - Mansons
07.01.10
Like nearly every other restaurant these days, The Ritz extols its devotion to seasonality and best of British
24.12.09
The fact that fewer restaurants than anticipated closed down in 2009 may be a blessing, at least for the owners, but the real crunch, I suspect, is...
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17.12.09
Bel Canto is a faintly surreal but quite jolly evening with initially perplexed faces - who on earth arranged this office party?
10.12.09
You might want to know that The Capital is open for Christmas Day lunch — £165 for five courses.
03.12.09
Fay Maschler wished Chinese Cricket Club had been better because she likes Chinese food and for the sake of Wang Lei, captain of China's squad.
26.11.09
Galvin La Chapelle, which opened in the City last week, is French in more than an aspect of the name and cooking style.
19.11.09
Mennula (apparently the word for almond in Sicilian dialect) is a great addition to the restaurants of Charlotte Street.
12.11.09
With reasonable prices and gentle service, Made in China has been added to Fay Maschler's short list of places to go when she is longing for Chinese...
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05.11.09
Maybe to avoid possible future confusion, London Babbo could be renamed Papi.
29.10.09
The newly opened restaurant Downstairs at Terroirs features a glass door with a view into the Charing Cross Underground concourse. What a heavenly...
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22.10.09
Giving pleasure is the underlying ethos of the Soho House group and there is little not to like at Pizza East.
15.10.09
The Sri Lankan dinner at Dock Kitchen was masterful. Fay Maschler asked for seconds.
08.10.09
One of the most gregarious chefs in London with a strong sideline in friends from the art world, Mark Hix knows his diners.
01.10.09
Opposite The London Palladium in Argyll Street is a dark doorway with a canopy bearing one word, “aqua”, in diminutive lower-case type.
27.08.09
Indian and Chinese newcomers comfortably rub shoulders with old-established Greek and Italian favourites in Cleveland Street.
20.08.09
The art-nouveau graphics of Le Bouchon Breton's menu may lend it the air of a parody or a chain, but the contents are a faithful summary of brasserie...
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