Category: restaurants

The Guardian yesterday ran an article about Suffolk for the benefit of Roy Keane who’s just taken over the manger’s role at Ipswich. It talked of sheep and tractors and contrasted the pace of Suffolk life with that of Manchester and that part of Cheshire beloved of its footballers.

        For collectors of meaningless trivia: if you want to find a restaurant midway between Histon and Market Harborough go to Keyston. Keystonis just oof the A14 west of Huntingdon and it strikes me as a rather affluent village. The blue bins mark it out as being in Huntingdonshire and it boasts…

      Yesterday was a good day for food. I started off with a cardiac breakfast at my hotel, the Crown, in Harrogate. And after a 4 train journey back to Cambridge I enjoyed my weekly steak which is the one meal that I’m allowed and expected to cook. In between was lunch at the…

      Tuesday evening we fancied Japanese food and instead of going south to Teri Aki in Cambridge which is very good we headed north instead and ended up in Leeds at Little Tokyo. Actually that’s not true. It was number one daughter’s birthday and we went up to surprise her. The wife hatched…

Have you noticed that when you find a restaurant with a super value set menu you generally end up spending twice as much as you expected when you went in ? So it was with me today when I was attracted by the £9.95 on offer at Edwinns in Cambridge. By the time I’d added…

      It’s Sunday lunchtime. There’s nothing in the fridge and you decide to head off and find a pub for lunch. As long as it’s not Mothers’ Day you’ve got a chance or have you? But you head off hopefully without any specific plan just looking for the perfect pub.

Last Saturday saw me heading north ‘into the Fens’. We Cambridge people, and if you live in Histon like I do you really are a Cambridge person when it comes to thinking about the rest of the county, tend to think of the Fens like others think of a foreign land. Cambridge is flat but…

There must be something wrong with the Feng Shui in Harston because we’ve got another restaurant just opened where it was previously Truc Vert and before that Crayfish. Both were restaurants I returned to but neither survived. What are the prospects for Anthurium?

Like most Brits I like a curry (although increasingly I’m finding they don’t like me). So on Wednesday night I took the wife out for dinner to our preferred Cambridge curry house, Cafe Naz, just across the road from Shire Hall. We had to go out because we’re currently minus a kitchen but maybe more…

We arrived in Jakarta on Thursday after 24 hours of traveling courtesy of Stagecoach and Cathay Pacific. I lived in the city for 2 years in the 70s and last visited in 1982. My how it’s changed. There are high rise hotels, apartment blocks and offices all over, there are the inevitable shopping malls and…