Eating Out
A favourite pastime when we are not on holiday is eating out, mainly in and around London and if I have the time and energy I will document some of our outings.
So a little listing of where we have eaten down the years in reverse year order, although ordered within the year.
2024
Seasonality
Amaya
Colbert
The Ivy (Guildford)
Fairmont Windsor Park
2023
Fallow
La Gamba
The Little Fish Market Hove
Peking Inn Cookham
Dishoom
The Wilderness Birmingham
Hjem
Pine
Pollen Street Social
Quinlans Cork
Shein Falls
Muckross Park
Sheekeys
Corrigans
Mere
Duke of Cumberland Arms Henley / Hazlemere
Dew Drop Inn Hurley
Quality Chop House Clerkenwell
Reading Room Roseate
Woven – Coworth Park
Manzi’s Soho
Chilston Park
Crab Bournemouth
Vineyard for Xmas
Hoppers Soho
2022
Hutong Shard
Oslo Court
A Wong
Blacklock
Loch and the Tyne
Waterside Bray
Langtons Coopers Hill
Triple B Smokehouse
Locanda Locatelli
Hope St Carriage Room
J Sheekeys
The Ivy Asia
Olivo Guildford
Gilpin Hotel
Stovells Chobham
The Bailiwick
Brasserie Zedel
Loch and the Tyne
Denbies
Alchemilla
Hare at Scorton
Magpie Cafe
La Malmaison
Betty’s York
Sportsmans Arms
Angel at Hetton
John’s House Leicestershire
Osteria Tufo
Lucknam Park
Crab at Bournemouth
Ynyshir Powys
2021
Scotts of Mayfair
Chequers Eversley
Mill House North Warnborough
Winning Post Winkfield
Hare at Scawton
Black Swan Yorkshire
House of Tides
Raby Hunt Co Durham
Brasserie Zedel x 2
Sussex Frith Street
Hoddington Arms
Denbies Vineyard Hotel
The Union Rye
Trinity
The Latymer
Elderflower
Mitre Hotel
Le Petit Nantais
Soutine
Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester
Buxton Crescent Hotel
French Manchester
Northcote Langho
Moor Hall Ormskirk
Hampton Manor Hampton in Arden
J Sheekeys
The Loch and the Tyne Old Windsor
Core by Clare Smyth
Greyhound Finchampstead
Frog at Skerritt
Restaurant Story
Roux at Skindles
Crab at Bournemouth
Dalloway Great Russell Street
Cinnamon Bay
2020
Fredricks Maidenhead
French Horn
Rocksalt (Folkestone)
Fordwich Arms Fordwich
Boathouse Bistro (Henley)
Roux at Skindles (Maidenhead)
Montagu Arms (Beaulieu)
Bluebells
Heckfield Place
1863
Lake Road Kitchen Cumbria
Forest Side Cumbria
Drunken Duck Inn
The Punchbowl Inn
Allium at Askham
Cottage in the Wood
The Woodspeen
Lords of the Manor
L’Ortolan
Coworth Park
Crown at Burchetts Green
Hoddington Arms
2019
Noble Rot Lamb’s Conduit St
Forburys Reading
Jetty Bristol
Casamia Bristol
L’Escargot Soho
Coconut Lounge Reading
Cafe Boheme
Kerridge Bar & Grill Corinthia Hotel
March Hare Guildford
Crown Burchetts Green
Midsummer House Cambridge
Tuddenham Mill
Benedicts Norwich
Hide Above
Applebees Borough Market
Home Leeds
Orwells
Hurley House Hotel (Maidenhead)
Miller of Mansfield (Goring)
Brasserie Blanc Southbank
Jetty Guildford
2018
Manor House Bybrook
Kingfisher on the Quay
Galvin at Windows
Purslane
Crazy Bear Beaconsfield
Verdi RAH
Bibendum {Claude Bosi (Hibiscus)}
Frog by Adam Handling
The Star at Harome
Magpie Cafe Whitby
Lanterna Scarborough
Zelman Meats
Tom Simmons
The Archduke
Peat Inn Fife
The Torridon
Three Chimneys Skye
L’Escargot Soho
Manchester House
Crown Burchetts Green
Oxford Blue Old Windsor
The Blackbird Bagnor
Brasserie Blanc Southbank
Koffmans and Mr White Bath
2017
Greenhouse Mayfair
Giggling Squid Wokingham
Whitebrook
Walnut Tree Inn
The Hardwick
Restaurant 1861
James Sommerin
Gauthier Soho
Kaspars
The Wheatsheaf
El Camino Crowthorne
Frenchies
Seahorse Dartmouth
Jetty Salcombe
L’Autre Pied
Gillrays
Neo Bournemouth
Cafe Murano
Barrafina
Artichoke Amersham
Beehive White Waltham
Maki Sushi Newbury
Viet Cafe London
Restaurant Marianne
Crab Bournemouth
2016
Stovells Chobham
Woodspeen
Oldroyd Upper St Islington
Langans
Morden & Lea
Bibendum
Fera at Claridges
The Goring
Cafe Monico
Heddon Street Cafe
Adams Birmingham
Box Tree Ilkley
Tredwells
The Jetty Guildford
Dishoom
The Barn Coworth Park
Chapter One
Koffmans
White Swan Fence
Marco Steak House Birmingham
Cerise Reading
Langans
Devonshire Arms Bolton Abbey
Crazy Bear Stadhampton
Crown Old Basing x 2
2015
Chapter One Locksbottom Kent
Terroirs
Café Murano
Merchants Tavern
The Pass Sussex
Wiltons
Aviator Farnborough
Forburys Reading
Locks Birmingham
Orwells Shiplake
National Theatre new restaurant
Mon Plaisir
Simpsons in the Strand
Fischers Baslow Hall
Andrew Fairlie at Gleneagles
Martin Wishart
The Witchery
The Kitchen
Castle Terrace
Plumed Horse
Berners Tavern
Cau Reading
The Plough
2014
Lime Wood
Murano
Scotts of Mayfair
Koffmans
The Boathouse
L’Ortolan
Clos Maggiore
The Fat Duck
Plas Bodegros
Tyddn Llan
Simon Radley Chester Grosvenor
Chez Bruce
Gymkhana
Le Gavroche
Sportsman @ Whitstable
Criterion
Andre Garrett @ Cliveden
Crown Inn Bray
The Ledbury
Dinner
2013
Benihana Picadilly 26 Jan
The Glitter Ball, Wakefield Park, Mortimer 1 Feb
LSB 9 Feb + 29 March + 5 April
Botley Park overnight 15 Feb
The Forbury, Reading 19 Feb
Hibiscus, London 9 March
Purefoy Arms 10 March
Gauthier Soho 13 April
Bocca de Lupo 20 April
restaurant Nathan Outlaw, Rock 3 May
Paul Ainsworth, Padstow 4 May
Scarlett Hotel, 5 May
Nathan Outlaw Seafood & Grill 6 May
Le Terroirs 25 May
Bluebell, Chigwell 26 May
Afternoon tea at Forburys 19 June
Le Caprice 18 July
Empress Garden 23 July + 31 Oct
Webber Fish Rye 23 Aug
The George, Rye 25 Aug
Brasserie Zedel 20 Sept
Sheekeys 28 Sept
Delaunay 13 Oct
Boyd’s Brasserie 15 Oct
Tea at Claridges 23 Nov
Wild Thyme Chipping Norton overnight 30 Nov
2012
Sun & Stars 7 Jan + 6 May
LSB 28 Jan + 18 June + 23 Oct
La Taverna, Windsor 3 Feb
Pebble Beach 12 Feb
Great House, Sonning 19 Feb
La Chapelle 25 Feb
Gauthier Soho 28 Feb + 16 June
Delaunay 5 April
Thomas Lord West Meon 8 April
Hawksmoor Seven Dials 14 April
Pennyhill Park 23 April
Dover St Wine Bar 26 May
The White Oak 25 July
The Three Horseshoes, Radnage overnight 28 July
Sheekeys 4 Aug
Canaervon Arms 5 Aug + 9 Sept
Drakes Brighton 25 Aug
Forbury Bordeaux dinner 20 Sept + 25 Oct
Zedel 29 Sept + 10 Nov
Crab at Chieveley 7 Oct
Pollen St Social 3 Nov
Purefoy Arms Preston Candover 4 Nov
Pebble Beach 17 Nov
Chewton Glen 18 Nov
2011
Frankie & Bennie 8 Jan
Pebble Beach overnight 5 Feb
Empress Garden 8 Feb
Carluccios Reading 10 Feb
Les Deux Salons 12 Feb
Pepe Sale Reading 16 Feb + 11 March
Restaurant 27 19 Feb
Sun & Stars, V’s 60th 20 Feb
Marcus Wareing 7 March
Dean St Townhouse 19 March
Complete Angler, Marlow overnight 27 March
Great House Sonning 10 April
River Cottage 23 April
Hix 24 April
West Bay Riverside 25 April
Pennyhill Park Cheese & Wine 6 May
Sheekeys 8 May
Kyrenia, Caversham19 May
Anchor & Hope 21 May
Pied a Terre 28 May
LSB 12 June + 20 July
Montparnasse, Southsea 18 June
Bentleys 23 July
Sat Bains overnight 30 July
The Cottage, Kegworth 31 July
Mint Leaf 3 Aug
Swan, Globe 21 Aug
Kinghams, Shere 4 Sept
Queens College Arms 18 Sept
Boyd’s Brasserie 15 Oct + 29 Nov
Boulters Lock 12 Nov
Gaucho 26 Nov
Crab at Chieveley overnight 3 Dec
Pennyhill Park Ladies Lunch 5 Dec
Hotel du Vin Winchester 11 Dec
2010
Hand & Flowers 21 Jan
Milton’s 30 Jan
L’atalier de Joel Ruberchon 4 Feb
JSW Petersfield 20 Feb
The Berkeley 23 Feb
Fat Olives, Emsworth 27 Feb
Longville Manor Jersey 5 March
Old House Wickham, 6 March
LSB 10 March + 24 Aug + 10 Oct
Great House Sonning 14 March
Jamie Oliver Guildford 28 April
Browns, St Martins Lane 29 April
Sun & Stars Holyport 9 May
Ronnie Scott’s (Manhattan Transfer) 9 May
Afternoon Tea Pennyhill Park 13 May
Wellington Arms, Baughurst 15 May
Forburys Reading wine dinner 20 May
LSQ2 Reading 23 May
Jamie Oliver’s Reading 25 May + 4 July
Crab at Chievely 30 May
York & Albany 5 June
Restaurant Tristan, Horsham 11 June
Villa Cipriani Funchal 13 June
Afternoon Tea Reid’s 18 June
Pennyhill Park 23 June
Bistro Bruno Loubet 3 July
Tate Modern 7 Aug
Pebble Beach overnight 14 Aug
The Boot, Stanford Dingley 26 Aug
My Al La Carte 30 Aug
Martin Wishart 2 Sept
Isle of Eriska 6 Sept
Lairds Hotel, Port Appin 8 Sept
Inverlochy Castle 9 Sept
L’Enclume, Cartmel 11 Sept overnight
Yew Tree 19 Sept + 21 Nov
Boulevard Brasserie, Wellington St 7 Oct
Dewpond 16 Oct
Le Caprice 20 Oct
Pennyhill Park wine dinner 12 Nov
Queen College Arms 14 Nov
Hinds Head, Bray 15 Nov
Cerise 1 Dec after wine tasting in town hall
The Fish House, Chilgrove overnight 4 Dec
Berystede Dinner Dance 9 Dec
Fat Olives Emsworth 11 Dec
Coworth Park, John Campbell 12 Dec
2009
Latymer 20 Jan
L’Escargot 10 Feb
French Horn, Sonning 12 Feb
Afternoon Tea, Pennyhill Park 23 Feb + 15 April
Fifteen, Watergate Bay 10 March
Le Caprice 5 April
Cherwell Boathouse 11 April
Trout Inn, Tadpole Bridge 13 April
Vineyard, Stockcross 5 May
LSB 10 May + 21 May + 22 June
My A La Carte, Caversham 18 May + 12 Nov
Great House, Sonning 7 June
Royal Oak, Paley St 11 June
Danesfield House 14 June
Sheekeys 9 July
Lenclume 2 Aug
Linthwaite House, Bo’ness 3 Aug
Sparrow Bay, Ullswater 4 Aug
Holbeck Ghyll, Windermere 5 Aug
Empress Garden 3 Sept + 14 Dec
Hotel Terravina 5 Sept
Le Gallois Cardiff 26 Sept
The Cut Bar, Southbank 22 Oct
Casa de Caesari 8 Nov
Hand & Flowers 1 Dec
The Bakers Arms, Droxford 13 Dec
Crab at Chieveley 29 Dec overnight
2008
Chez Gerard 28 Jan
Empress Garden 10 Feb + 11 March + 1 May + 8 July + 15 Oct
La Parisienne 1 March
Hambleton Hall 5-7 March
Inn on the Green 9 March
Black Boys Inn 21 March
Hotel du Vin Henley 24 March
Come Ca, Chichester 24 May
Hallidays, Funtingdon 25 May
Marina Jaks, Hayling Island 26 May
Four Seasons, Dogmersfield 22 June
Brasserie Roux 15 July
Leatherne Bottle, Goring 29 July
Museum Inn, Farnham, Dorset 10 Aug
LSB 13 Aug
Loch Fyne 18 Aug
Hoste Arms, Burnham Market 24 Aug
Joe Allen 16 Sept
Le Manoir 30 Sept
Sheekeys 9 Dec
Great House, Sonning 26 Dec
2007
Galileos 6 March + 22 May
LSB 8 March
Walkers 13 March
Pennyhill Park 1 May
Wolsley 28 April
Vanilla Pod 3 May
Hotel du Vin, Bristol 5 May
Crab at Chievely 7 May
Mezzanine National 9 July + 26 Sept
Mings, BAGSHOT 12 July
Axis, One Aldwych 31 July
Oxford Dogs 4 Aug
Wellington Arms, Baughurst 22 Aug
White Horse, Brancaster Staithe 26 Aug
L’Escargot 11 Sept
LSB 12 Sept + 17 Sept
Sheekeys 16 Oct
Ascot 3 Nov
Coppid Beech 17 Nov
Vineyard Stockcross 22 Nov
2006
Villa D’Este 7 Jan
Cafe du Jardin 1 Feb
New Angel, Dartmouth 21 Feb
L’Ortolan 7 March
Sheekeys 18 April
Champignon Sauvage 29 July
The Vineyard, Stockcross 30 July
LSB 9 Oct
Benihana 18 Oct
Quo Vadis 12 Dec
2005
Villa D’Este 8 Jan
Gay Hussar 15 Feb
Empress Gardens 16 Feb + 1 April
Cottage 5 March + 30 April
St John 7 March
Chez Gerard 6 April
Mezzanine, National 12 April
Winteringham Fields overnight 2 Aug and visit Pat
River Cafe 20 Nov
LSB 1 Dec
Yew Tree, Highclere 11 Dec
Cinnamon Club 13 Dec
Knife & Cleaver Houghton Conquest 2 nights 31 Dec
2004
Greyhound, Stockbridge 6 Jan
Villa D’Est 10 Jan
Empress Garden 10 Feb
5 North St 6 March
Castle Hurst 7 March
Sheekeys 25 May
Lindsay House 13 July
LSB 23 July + 4 Dec
22 Mill St 30 July
Gidleigh Park 31 July
Empress Garden 29 Sept
Tresanton St Mawes 30 Oct
2003
Le Colombier 26 Jan
Olive Tree, Southampton 2 March
Riverside, Bray 22 March
Afternoon Tea, Cliveden 23 March
Salieri’s 25 March
LSB 24 April + 26 Oct
Mezzo 26 April
Racine 4 May
Dover St Wine Bar 10 May
Royal Oak Jazz 19 May
Atlantic Bar & Grill 21 May
L’Ortolan 29 July
Cliveden 13 Oct
Rowans 9 Nov
Castle, Hurst 25 Nov
Riccis on the Green 30 Nov
2002
Ransomes Dock 16 Jan
RSJ 9 Feb
The Red House, Whitchurch 10 March
QUOD 30 April
Dover St 4 May
Royal Oak, Paley St 9 June
Soho Spice 27 July
Royal Hospital Road 23 Aug
Ritz afternoon tea 26 Aug
The Ivy 12 Oct
Mezzanine, National 28 Oct
Crown, Burchetts Green 31 Oct
Chef Peking 24 Dec
Old Bridge House, Huntingdon overnight 31 Dec
2001
Vong (later Koffmans) 6 Jan
Villa D’Este Marlow 13 Jan
Incognico 3 Feb
Tas, 8 Feb
Le Colombier 10 Feb
Crooked Billet 18 Feb + 22 April
Chavignol 10 March
Villa Romana 5 May
Cliveden afternoon tea 21 May
Dover St Wine Bar 24 July + 24 Nov
Turners 10 Aug
Zafferanos 11 Aug
East End Pub (New Forest) 27 Oct
Empress Garden 24 Dec
2000
Fifth Floor, Harvey Nicks 21 Jan
Theatrical, 22 Jan
The Orrery 29 Jan
Planet Holllywood 12 Feb
Novelli Bistro EC1 19 Feb
Restaurant Bosquet, Kenilworth 25 Feb
Clarkes 7 March
Chavignol 11 March
Floriana 21 March
The Ivy 29 July
Bluebird 8 Aug
Hibiscus, Ludlow 24 Nov
Merchants House, Ludlow 25 Nov
Orsino 2 Dec
Ransomes Dock, Battersea 7 Dec
1999
La Parisiene Romsey 2 Jan
Rhodes in the Square 16 Jan
Mezzo 2 Feb
Aurora Garden Hotel, Windsor 11 Feb
Chef Peking 13 Feb
Chavignol overnight 6 March
Criterion 16 March
Bel & The Dragon, Cookham 21 March
Leith’s Soho 29 March
Monsieur Max 13 April
The Horns, Crazies Hill 17 April
Ninos Pangbourne 21 April
Fire Station, Southbank 26 April
RSJ 29 May
The Chapel Ockham 2 July
Sticky Fingers 17 Aug
Capital Radio Cafe with Chris Tarrant 8 Oct
Cheese tasting at Le Manoir 28 Oct
Three Lions Stuckton overnight 11 Dec
1998
Colleys 16 Jan
The Fox, North Waltham 7 Feb
The Gurkha Square 14 Feb
Old Manor House, Wickham 28 Feb
Gordleton Mill overnight 7 March
The Cottage 18 April
Momo 2 May
Mossimans (J) 8 July
Hotel du Vin, Tunbridge Wells 11 July
Rose St Wokingham 30 July
The Fish in Bray 14 Nov
Castle at Taunton 4 Dec – weekend
OXO Tower 18 Dec
1997
Tilney Hall 22 Jan
Le Poussin, Brockenhurst 1 March
L’Odean 8 March
Claridges 19 April
Fleur de Sel Haslemere 14 June
Landmark Hotel (Burton-Race) 12 June
Colleys 19 July
Boathouse, Moulsford 25 July
Cantley House 9 Sept
Michels Ripley 27 Sept
The Last Shoe, Crowthorne 22 Nov
My 40th Cantley House 6 Dec
Petit Blanc Stratford 13 Dec
Don Beni 16 Dec
1996
Castle, Hurst 8 June
Bluebeckers, Odiham 6 July
Le Petit Blanc Stratford 14 Sept + 11 Dec
The Royal Oak Yattendon 29 Sept
Granita 19 Oct
Carluccios, Neal St 2 Nov
Lovells 30 Nov
1995
Mexican night shepherds House, Woodley 27 Jan
Anticos 17 Feb
Lovells 18 Feb
Ronnie Scott’s 25 Feb
Old Chesil Rectory, Winchester 11 March
Marylines Jazz Dinner 9 Sept
Cheese Supper Canary Wharf 22 Sept
Chef Peking 30 Sept
Cafe Royal Times Dinner 1 Nov
1994
Lovells 12 March
Planet Hollywood 16 July
Sandown Races 30 May
People’s Palace 9 Dec
1993
Twyford Tandoori 28 Feb
Casa de Caesari 6 March
Colleys 20 May
Colleys 13 Sept