The best fish and chips in town come from a Korean fine-dining-trained chef at a former fast food joint in the part of Lemon Grove where you’re more likely to get a used car than a meal. Perhaps it’s not the most classic fish and chips in town. For that, Shakespeare’s Pub & … [Read more...]
WORLD FARE: Does Shakespeare’s have the best fish ’n’ chips anywhere?
"These are the best fish 'n' chips I have ever tasted!" The words wouldn't necessarily have meant much to me, except that they were spoken by my friend Martin Nielson in his erudite English accent (one defying his Midlands origin) a little more than an hour after disembarking … [Read more...]
RESTAURANT REVIEW (ENGLAND): St. John
One of the best restaurants in the world – ranked by the San Pellegrino guide (a widely recognized if thoroughly unofficial accounting of such things) at somewhere between 14 and 41, depending on the year -- sports plain and unadorned whitewashed walls, peeling grey painted … [Read more...]
ENGLAND: Roast Pheasant with Balti Red Lentil Dal and Salad
I have written more than once on this trip to the UK that the essence of good British cuisine lies in the bounty of the land. The simple fact is that unless a Brit lives in London he or she can go nowhere without seeing a farm…or sheep grazing… … [Read more...]
RESTAURANT REVIEW (Hockley, Essex, England): Harrisons
Harrisons Restaurant in Hockley, Essex – the next town over from Rayleigh, where we were staying with our friends, the Oakleys – is the sort of small town restaurant that is created and endures as much despite its ambitions as because of them. … [Read more...]