Al Fresco Archive

  • Tweet Take a wine barrel full of irrepressible Italian charm, add an endearing pinch of comedic service and top it off with some seriously impressive food and apparently you have...

    Ilia, SW3

    Tweet Take a wine barrel full of irrepressible Italian charm, add an endearing pinch of comedic service and top it off with some seriously impressive food and apparently you have...

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  • Tweet As the economy has boomed, the foodie world has largely become influenced by style over substance.  We’ve all been wowed by a ‘pithivier of this’, ‘foam of that’ and...

    The Avalon, SW12

    Tweet As the economy has boomed, the foodie world has largely become influenced by style over substance.  We’ve all been wowed by a ‘pithivier of this’, ‘foam of that’ and...

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  • Tweet You may have heard of a little village in Berkshire called Bray.  It’s home to a couple of restaurants called The Fat Duck and The Waterside Inn.  Apparently they’re...

    Boulters, SL6

    Tweet You may have heard of a little village in Berkshire called Bray.  It’s home to a couple of restaurants called The Fat Duck and The Waterside Inn.  Apparently they’re...

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  • Tweet You’re too old for the ‘let’s dress in ridiculous clothes and go out in Shoreditch’ scene, you don’t fit in with the young families in the ‘new & improved,...

    Del’Aziz, various locations

    Tweet You’re too old for the ‘let’s dress in ridiculous clothes and go out in Shoreditch’ scene, you don’t fit in with the young families in the ‘new & improved,...

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  • Tweet The sun was shining, people were smiling, cars were topless and the women may as well have been, and every inch of pavement within breathing distance of a pub...

    Momo, W1

    Tweet The sun was shining, people were smiling, cars were topless and the women may as well have been, and every inch of pavement within breathing distance of a pub...

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  • Tweet Like most of us in the days of our childhood, I was constantly being told off by my mother for playing with my food.  Dinner wasn’t supposed to be...

    Le Pont de la Tour, SE1

    Tweet Like most of us in the days of our childhood, I was constantly being told off by my mother for playing with my food.  Dinner wasn’t supposed to be...

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  • Tweet Picture the scene: I’m sitting at a table with five lovely ladies at a steakhouse and the waiter brings out 6 large steaks.  Each is of a different cut...

    High Timber, EC4

    Tweet Picture the scene: I’m sitting at a table with five lovely ladies at a steakhouse and the waiter brings out 6 large steaks.  Each is of a different cut...

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  • Tweet The English are admired (or berated??) the world over for their resilience and composure in the face of some of the most ridiculous weather.  Give us just the merest...

    Grafton House, SW4

    Tweet The English are admired (or berated??) the world over for their resilience and composure in the face of some of the most ridiculous weather.  Give us just the merest...

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