Hints and tips:
...Rogers lives next door to what was once the epicentre of Soho loucheness, the Groucho Club on Dean Street; a spot that he feels is now “having a bit of a renaissance”....
...Dean was too late for the full lunch service, but was still able to have what she described as “the perfect meal”: bread warm from the wood-fired oven, roasted goat and wine....
...The Gordon’s cheeseboard is the perfect accompaniment to its wines....
...TDG: My husband and I adore wine, particularly wine sourced in local vineyards in the Provence region in France, where we live....
...We justify a glass of wine each, although it is Monday. “I’m a bad cook who loves food,” she says, quoting from memory the US wit Fran Lebowitz: “I love food. I love ordering food.”...
...Dusting off her old Triumph motorbike, she takes off to the Forest of Dean, where she meets an array of eccentrics and successfully shakes off her identity as a wife, mother and office drone....
...Participants can join workshops, food and wine tastings, and alfresco dining on huge communal tables in the streets....
...With his new venture, he has decided to cut back on wine and get a personal trainer, a performance coach and a health coach....
...Dean House in 1950 on the spiral staircase in the entrance hall....
...Alessandro Palazzi of Dukes hotel in London, by consent the global dean of martini makers, pours his several degrees colder, O’Neill pointed out to me....
...It lent billions of dollars to wineries and vineyards where it could network with clients and send wine to its customers’ parties....
...A waiter brings our glasses of wine, and I take a wary sip; the Sauvignon Blanc is crisp and delicious....
...I need nothing else except food and wine. What ambitions do you still have? To always write better, to keep the wine cellar stocked with Caymus Cabernet Sauvignon and to avoid prison....
...Just before closing, add a tablespoon of wine to the fish. This stage can be done well in advance....
...(Other alumni of hers include Douglas Gordon, Tacita Dean and Conrad Shawcross.) “She’s been absolutely brilliant.”...
...The French House 49 Dean Street, London W1D 5BG The French House, universally known as “The French” is a little piece of Soho restaurant history....
...There’s an interesting wine list from specialist Emily Acha Derrington....
...Her mother, Sharon Oster, was the first female dean of the Yale School of Management, while her father, Ray Fair, became famous in the 1970s for the accuracy of his model for forecasting presidential elections...
...(Website; Directions) Ode to Babel 772 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11238 For Marva and Myriam Babel, Brooklyn has always been home....
...It had a certain dark charm and was a fixture of Dean Street, but I suspect that what’s replaced it might also become something of a Soho institution....
...Visitors can savour the artworks over vintage wines by the glass – thanks to the Coravin system, which uses a hollow needle to extract wine through the cork – and a menu of small plates including sea-bass...
...The server refills our wine glasses....
...Virgin Wines said it has traded positively with strong levels of customer demand in May and June....
...It’d be rude not to crack open a bottle of wine, which I usually collect from P Franco, on Lower Clapton Road, on the off-chance I’ve not been to our West End wine bar La Compagnie des Vins Surnaturels to...
...In 1939, he returned to London to open his first restaurant, Budapest in Dean Street....
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