Gavroche Gastronomics
Our annual Autumn lunch at Le Gavroche which takes place tomorrow is always a highlight of the epicurean calendar but this year Michel Roux, Silvano Giraldin and their team have upped the ante with a...
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Ron & Elva Laughton of the legendary Jasper Hill Winery in Heathcote, South Australia, both delighted and surprised us with their arrival in the UK the other day. They revealed that the reason for...
View ArticleGavroche Gastronomics
To 43 Upper Brook Street, London, W1 at Le Gavroche for my bi-annual bean-feast with front of house legend Silvano Giraldin to select the food and wines for our sell-out Spring lunch. If I had £1 for...
View ArticleA High Time at the High Pavement Evening Café
In the summer time, before the schools break up for the holidays, the team here at Yapp Brothers like to get together and put the world to rights over a meal and a few glasses of wine. We have long...
View ArticleBaux Séjour
To Otto’s at number 182 on the Gray’s Inn Road last night to sample a dazzling vertical of Domaine de Trévallon accompanied by a decadent menu of specially selected dishes. The eponymous Otto and I go...
View ArticleLibrary Luncheon
To the impressive new ‘Chef’s Library’ private room at Le Gavroche to meet with Michel Roux, Silvano Giraldin and head sommelier David Galetti for a marathon of food and wine matching to make our...
View ArticleI do Like to be Beside the Seaside
The Seaside Boarding House in Burton Bradstock has just thrown its doors open to the great unwashed and is the most keenly anticipated restaurant or hotel opening since the Chiltern Fire House last...
View ArticleÀ Table
As someone who spends an indecent amount of time browsing and sluicing under the pretence of working I am frequently asked to name my favourite restaurants. Of course it is tempting to rattle off a...
View ArticlePortland
113 Great Portland Street, London W1W 6QQwww.portlandrestaurant.co.uk To Portland, a restaurant named after a location, named after a Duke, named after a location (I digress) which is a hot...
View ArticleSpring Selections at Le Gavroche
To 43 Upper Brook Street, Mayfair in my least constrictive suitings to meet Silvano Giraldin, Michel Roux and super sommelier David Galetti to select the menu and wines for our keenly-anticipated...
View ArticlePinchos, Pintxos or Tapas in La Rioja
Like the French, the Spanish love their food and right now they are setting the pace for others to follow. The recently-published Top 100 restaurants in the world included 5 Spanish entries in the Top...
View ArticleSocial Wine and Tapas
To number 39, James Street, W1, to check out the latest star in Jason Atherton’s burgeoning restaurant firmament ‘Social Wine & Tapas‘ before I have to read what Jay Rayner, […]
View ArticleThe Only Way is Essex
A recent trip to visit friends and relatives on Cape Anne in Massachusetts provided the opportunity to revisit one of my all-time favourite restaurants ‘Woodman’s of Essex’. Happily, although I […]
View Article45 Jermyn Street
To 45 Jermyn Street for a ‘working lunch’ with the talented artist Toby Ward (www.tobyward.net) with whom I am collaborating on our next wine list, to check out the […]
View ArticleBellanger
A couple of days before Christmas, I managed to find a few hours to meet up with two old friends and visit Bellanger, the most recent opening from the consummate […]
View ArticleGlorious Graillot on the Gray’s Inn Road
The brilliant baroque basement of Otto’s restaurant, on the border of Bloomsbury, was the sumptuous setting for a highly-convivial wine dinner with Antoine Graillot last night. Otto and I go […]
View ArticleWining in Whitstable
To the famous Royal Native Oyster Stores in Kent yesterday for a staff training session followed by a highly convivial dinner with the management team lead by their inexhaustible hostess […]
View ArticleBlandford Comptoir
Like many French people living in London all I dream about when it comes to good food is simplicity, authenticity and charcuterie! After a few years working with French wines […]
View ArticleClipstone Restaurant
Following a memorable lunch at Portland in Marylebone last summer catching up with an old friend from Germany, I could not resist for long when I heard that Will Lander […]
View ArticleMature Chinons at Portland
As one of the most underrated regions in France, the Loire valley still attracts many wine lovers. At Yapp Brothers, we never had a doubt of its full potential as […]
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