Hints and tips:
...My staples are the generous grazing fish board and, when in season, the English pea salad with pea fritters, goat’s curd and pink fir potatoes. I always leave room for one of their superb puddings....
...“Very good decisions, very fair hearings. A genuinely good person,” she says. Does the last matter, professionally? “The law is about human beings and businesses....
...Tristram Hunt is director of the V&A and a former MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central....
...From where I work, I can see a thin “V” in the hills leading to the beach at Seatown. We walk to it often, meeting friends for summer swims and barbecues, or for fish and chips at The Anchor Inn....
...The stories he told over hot sweet tea were as good as the carpet. I have a collection of shoes....
...Well, Emily, there is no good time to talk about the Ripper Murders but that being the case, this seemed as good a time as any to talk about those unfortunate incidents. Unfortunate incidents?...
...Ye Olde Fighting Cocks, which claims to be Britain’s oldest inn, even made it through the Black Death....
...It’s certainly unique in Asia — and I can’t think of another prize anywhere that combines properly rewarding artists with supporting good causes....
...was built to impress and intimidate by Francis I, a king whose mother called him “César”, and who was working out his standing not just in relation to his fellow rulers — the Holy Roman emperor Charles V...
..., where eastern European curds were being sprayed with chemicals to imitate fresh mozzarella....
...It’s even said that Charles V came through on his way from Flanders to take up the Spanish throne....
...Fergus Henderson The St John chef was responsible for the revival of so much good British food....
...On June 18 1815, the Emperor Napoleon ate his breakfast outside an inn 12 miles south of Brussels. While he was at it, Marshal Soult, his chief of staff, urged a little caution for the day ahead....
...Sir John Soane’s Museum, 13 Lincoln’s Inn Fields, London WC2A 3BP. Jonathan Foyle is chief executive of the World Monuments Fund Britain...
...Any good pubs near the Belvoir? The Botanic Inn. Friendly atmosphere, good fuel and music. (www.thebotanicinn.com). What else do you do in your spare time?...
...Quiet enough, in fact, for us to spot a mink scampering along the bank for a good 20 metres before it plops into the water and swims away....
...Those careworn execs at Land Rover’s Solihull HQ could drive here and be drowning their sorrows at the characterful Pilot Inn within three hours....
...His “St George’s Day” (1647) is a celebration at a village inn, full of lively, delightful and sometimes insalubrious incident....
...and good to eat as true cheddar cheese....
...After a ryokan (traditional Japanese inn) weekend spent at the Gora Kadan in Hakone and the Horai in Atami, I’m glowing from all the scrubbing, kneading, polishing and buffing....
...Current projects include a contemporary coaching-inn and two high-profile galleries, a major extension to the South London Gallery and a new gallery for a charitable art trust delicately sculpted out of...
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