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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,
Julian Barnes's kitchen pedant is as dogmatic and irritating as most pernickety types, whatever their speciality, but anyone who has ever revolted at the smugly capable tone of the average cookbook cannot but warm to this chewy combination of concessions, neuroses, advice and the occasional recipe.
Barnes is, as always, precise, humorous and informative (if narrator and author aren't the same person, they evidently have lots in common) and most amateur cooks will recognise some indignant aside or anecdote of culinary disaster.
Avoiding the literary equivalent of the rules his pedant adheres to so slavishly, Barnes has created a curiously palatable little book.
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