Café Papillon started out as a place to have coffee after the Café Royal became a hotel and then in 2016 opened as London’s first dessert lounge with ingenious menus based around dessert, cake and small savoury plates, it’s here that I brought my daughter to celebrate her 14th birthday. Renowned Café Royal pastry chef Sarah Barber remains at the helm creating cakes and desserts for the newly created Café Papillon as she did for the Dessert Lounge and the…
I made this birthday cake for my daughter's birthday in September adapting it from a recipe I saw in Good Food Magazine but being stuck on names, I decided Pretty in Pink would be…
Making my own Christmas cake has been a tradition in my family going back many years which began with my mother using a recipe that her sister gave her. But when I started high…
I love Italy and its cuisine even more so. Having been to Italy many times - to Rome, the Amalfi Coast, Portofino and Venice, I have had the pleasure of eating some of the…
The Rosewood Hotel is situated in one of London’s most regarded areas for theatre and entertainment, High Holborn. It’s Edwardian façade belies the classic and elegant interior of this stylish hotel, it’s charming hidden…
It’s not often that I go somewhere and leave unhappy but unfortunately my first experience at Brown’s did not live up to the high standards I expect of a luxury hotel but I took…
I’m all for championing local businesses because with business rates, rents and other expenses, it’s really hard for local shopkeepers to survive these days especially catering establishments and not living in the centre of…
