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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
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Makeover: Antony Worrall Thompson's Notting Grill is now The Clarendon
John McClements has been criticised in a trade magazine for being slow to pay his suppliers, sadly a not uncommon approach. Antony Worrall Thompson made it into the national press in February when he was forced to put four of his restaurants into administration, leaving both suppliers and staff high and dry. He has recently reopened The Greyhound near Henley — while former staff at his Windsor Grill are taking legal action — but what was AWT’s Notting Grill is now The Clarendon.
It occupies a handsome corner site on the front line between Notting Hill’s private garden squares and public parks. The makeover includes a first-floor bar, a large table for groups and a spacious terrace where the tables and chairs gently weep about the weather.
The ground floor has a bare brick wall, open kitchen and reverberating acoustics. The front of house staff seemed not to have a clue. This bunch couldn’t run a bath but the chefs who looked, how shall we say, experienced, produced decent if fairly run-of-the-mill cooking. Mostly it is grills, with fine rib-eye steak and calf’s liver, but our burger was much too salty and roast Middle White pork was unavailable at point of service — the order had nevertheless blithely been taken.
There was an unfathomably long wait between first courses — well-timed poached salmon, well-sourced tomato and mozzarella salad — and mains. One of my companions remarked that passers-by watching through the windows their weekly food budget being consumed in one meal made her wish the place would go back to just being a pub.
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