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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
Theatre
A smart, prickly and rewarding view of sexual and emotional confusion
Cock
Restaurants
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
London,
Fay Maschler's rating
Reader rating
Phone: 020 7486 7340
Open: Open Mon-Sat noon-3pm & 6-11pm.
After hearing the magnificent Anna Caterina Antonacci singing Monteverdi — be still my beating heart — at Wigmore Hall, we went to Il Baretto in Blandford Street which, like Mosaico/Dolada, seems to have changed its name (from Giusto) without a noticeable difference in the ownership.
Certainly I remember the charming, enthusiastic manager Tomasa from the previous regime and the wood-fired oven still sits in the rather featureless — apparently soon to be improved — basement dining room. Pizza alla diavola from the “forno” was not as impressive as I remember from Giusto days but other dishes were commendably well executed and the value is good.
Spaghetti con astice (with lobster) at £15 was in fact an improvement on the same dish tried at Zafferano not long ago. Razor-thin slices of cold suckling pig with a ruff of leaves made a fine first-course salad and deep-fried squid and slender batons of courgette were crisp and dry. Sauté of clams and mussels was much enjoyed; lamb cutlets flavoured with garlic and rosemary grilled over charcoal, ditto.
We were sold down on the wine list — to a muscular Bisceglia Aglianico del Vulture at £21 — a tactic which these days induces, as did the wine, a warm glow.
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