Category Archives: Food and Drink

The View from The Shard near London Bridge offers a 360-degree panorama of the city from just below the summit of the tallest building in Western Europe. Rienzo Piano’s skyscraper, owing its inspiration not just to shards of glass but also the old crane derricks which used to line the nearby Pool of London, is […]

  MA NUIT CHEZ MAUD!* Admittedly I never visited Maud Fierobe’s home but she did entertain myself and my wife in true Gallic fashion at Champagne et Fromage, her excellent shop-cum-bistro in London’s Covent Garden. Open for around a year now, and with plans to expand south of the river, Maud and her two business […]

Brigitte Hennessy is Channel Controller, Specialist Division for Champagne Lanson in the UK, the most important champagne export market in the world and a place where Lanson actually sells more bottles of the wine than in France. Brigitte admits that when she first took up her job with Champagne Lanson three years ago she was […]