Restaurants: Gymkhana, London
Restaurants: Gymkhana Website: https://gymkhanalondon.com/ I first visited Gymkhana back in September 2014, about a year after it opened. This was
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Food and wine
Restaurants: Plateau, Brighton
Website: https://www.plateaubrighton.co.uk/ Plateau is one of those restaurants that I love to eat at. A lunch today, on a bright
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Exploring Japanese wine (5) a wine-pairing lunch at Chi-Fu, Osaka
Website: https://chi-fu.jp/ This was a remarkable gastronomic experience. Chi-Fu is a Japanese-influenced Chinese restaurant in Osaka serving an amazing multicourse
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Exploring Japanese wine (4) a dinner with amazing wines at Shimanouchi Fujimaru Winery
Website: www.papilles.net This was a beautiful evening at Fujimaru Winery, which is a restaurant and urban winery in Osaka. This
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Exploring Japanese wine (3) Dinner at Wassy’s Dining Souple, Osaka
Website: https://wassys.co.jp/souple/ Wassy’s is a chain of wine shops in Osaka, carrying an amazing selection of international and Japanese wines,
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A fine wine lunch at Chez Bruce: Chave, Jamet, Chapoutier, La Mission, Montrose and others
One of the great pleasures in life is a good lunch with plenty of wine, shared with nice people. These
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Exploring Japanese wine (2) Kaiseki dinner at Nakanoshima Nadaman, Osako
Website: https://store.nadaman.co.jp/en/pages/restaurant_nakanoshima Nakanoshima Nadaman is a kaiseki restaurant in the Rihga Royal hotel in Osake. Here we enjoyed a top
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Restaurants: Rubens, Franschhoek, South Africa
Website: https://www.reubens.co.za/ Franschhoek, in South Africa’s Western Cape, is a beautiful destination. With mountains every way you look, this valley
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A wine dinner at Brawn, London, with some lovely wines
Website: https://www.brawn.co/ I hadn’t been to Brawn, a neighbourhood restaurant on Columbia Road in Bethnal Green, for ages. So it
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Highlights: Dinner at Les Caves Madeleine, Beaune, with two exceptional Aligotés
Website: https://cavesmadeleine.com/ If you are heading to Beaune, two things you must do before travelling: make a reservation at La
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