Ever one to live the high life, Nick Harman rises up to the Chef’s Penthouse in Park Lane for a unique lunch experience

Keith is invited to a table with Yasuji Morizumi, the first Ramen chef to get a Michelin star, and the creator of the menu in London’s new Asian fusion restaurant, Pacata.

Emma Sleight gets her fill of great Asian food, swigs Japanese Koshu wine and discovers the dangerous delights of Baijiu

Step into Cornwall’s Fifteen on the beach and you’re surrounded by the rapacious Atlantic which gives this posh beach shack on stilts an instant advantage over the slinkiest restaurants. With vast, panoramic views of the ocean, this surely must be one of the best UK restaurants to work in terms of location?

Moti Mahal 45 Great Queen Street, London, WC2B 5AA www.motimahal-uk.com  As I walked into Moti Mahal […]

Not many people venture to Streatham, the post code that refuses to posh up, but Addomme a new pizza/trattoria is well worth the journey finds Nick Harman.

A puff of blue explodes in my face. Then a puff of yellow. Holy rainbow coloured smoke! I’m surrounded by a mob, and I can’t see much although I’m still laughing. Fortunately it’s not an angry mob but an excitable crowd, intent on causing harmless devastation by primary colour. The occasion: it’s the Hindu festival of Holi.

Karma Cans is a venture set up by a bright young graduate called Eccie, providing freshly cooked lunches that are delivered to your office by bicycle during your lunch hour. 

Lower Marsh is the rather grim street at the side of Waterloo station with its unloved charity shops, tatty vintage and sex stores.  A couple of greasy spoons complete the picture, although I do confess a liking for the homely Camel & Artichoke pub, which dates back to the days when the Artichoke was an old hostellery past which artichokes were transported from the docks to the tables of Westminster and the City

It’s a safe bet you’ll eat well at Royal Ascot this year. Nick Harman gets a preview and finds some odd on favourites to put your shirt on. Then runs out of racing puns.