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New Moon is nothing if not an international advertisement for the hungry virtues of virginity and young people can’t get enough of it
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
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A smart, prickly and rewarding view of sexual and emotional confusion
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Kitchen W8 is a bargain for this area, if such sophistication is what you crave
Kitchen W8
Too long and drawn out but very entertaining with excellent special effects
This is a peculiar play and does not work for me. Some of it is very funny but there are real flaws
Alex has a strong powerful voice and was faultless, she is far better now than she was on the X-Factor
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No pretensions: The Duke of Wellington
When I whinged about food-obsessed bloggers the other week - I was fed up eating in empty, just-opened rooms with only these portly, camera-toting chaps for company - I missed another irritation. Which is having dinner with one and then finding my review scooped at length on the Internet, a medium uninterested in such niceties as publishing dates.
Anyway, any similarity to this and the Dos Hermanos blog hagiography is entirely not coincidental - so ya boo sucks to all those who love to plague me with e-mails crying plagiarism.
For The Duke of Wellington has restored my faith in the maligned gastropub with a meal of serious quality served by a bunch of young people who know exactly what they're doing - principally chef Fred Smith, a proper grown-up talent.
We ate silky pork rillettes; brave, 45-day-hung Ginger Pig steak with fabulous, rustly chips; a moist-fleshed, crisp-skinned guinea fowl on a sultry bed of deep, dark cavolo nero and lentils flanked by a magnificently tumescent Toulouse sausage; tagliatelle with real bite and oodles of dill-scented lobster.
Cheeses were in perfect nick and a light but calorific sticky toffee pudding was Bunterishly good. The off-Marylebone location is a gem, the room is fun and funky, with rickety tables and no pretensions.
Details are correct at the time of publication - please check with venue before booking.
