Edible Reading
At noon, the brand new ER review is of a lunch for the ages. I enjoyed writing it almost as much as I enjoyed eating it.
26/02/2026
This week is one that is ending very differently to how it started - sorry to vaguebook, but it’s been like that. Anyway, at the start of the week before things went awry it was buffalo chicken salad week at Picnic and I rather enjoyed it.
26/02/2026
The last archive review of the month, from last year, is of Creperie Doux Sourire, which I quite liked but which could have been so much more.
Restaurant review: Creperie Doux Sourire I’ve written before about the factors that make a restaurant perfect for solo dining: a good table that doesn’t face a wall or, worse still, the bogs; a great view to enable people watching; a menu…
22/02/2026
I was in Oxford yesterday and my day there started, as Oxford days invariably do, outside The Missing Bean. Gassing away with my friend Jerry, inhaling the first latte and savouring the second, people watching and attacking this outstanding pain au chocolat.
We had a restaurant booked that we were originally meant to visit the weekend after my accident last year, and going there now felt like righting a wrong. Review up Friday.
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