The Boathouse used to be one of those slightly tatty, worn-out pubs that had seen much better days. It was just underwhelming, in direct contrast to it’s superb position on the riverbank. The previous owners didn’t seem to have much clue about how to run the place, either. A few years ago, on the final [...]
Is it OK to take photos of food in restaurants? It’s a big issue for food bloggers. I posed the question on Twitter, and got a mixed bag of responses back. Nobody seemed quite sure, and there’s certainly no consensus. @JAD73 said You’ve paid for it, it doesn’t affect the other diners so unless you [...]
I love Brighton. It’s vibrant and exciting, but still has some of that shabby seaside charm and a little of the old menace chronicled so expertly by Graham Greene in the brilliant Brighton Rock. As a seaside town, it’s hard to beat, and as a place to eat out, even harder. As an end-of-holiday meal [...]
The Leeds Loves Food festival happened this weekend, and we ate at The Living Room on Saturday as part of it. The Living Room is one of those self consciously fashionable places. You know the sort. It has the feel and look of an upmarket bar bordering on a private member’s club. It’s a fashionable [...]
During the second half of the nineteenth century, the Industrial Revolution gave birth to Blake’s “dark, Satanic mills”, huge cathedrals of commerce producing cotton, wool, alpaca. Conditions in the mills were harsh – the workers started young and the hours were long, the work dangerous. The mills of the North were places to be feared, [...]