One of the very best in Liverpool

Poppy parties Pan-Pacific style at London’s most famous Tiki bar, lei sadly not included.

We did Drunch, a pleasant unassuming place with menu that avoids cliches for the most part and makes you feel a little healthier as you leave. In the evenings you can smoke a shisha outside or get all intimate in the private’living room’.

Anita Pati goes back to her briny roots at the new Bonnie and Gull seafood shack in Exmouth Market

A cut above the rest hostel in Liverpool with its very own street kitchen.

Dram and smoke is located in one of those big old yards,  a yard you know is going to be on Grand Designs in a few years time.  A graphic artist and his pushy, rude wife, will be smugly telling Kevin how they intend to turn it into a giant living space at phenomenal expense.

The Crown and Anchor pub , something of a Chiswick institution,  has undergone a major refurbishment and is aspiring to be The W4  place to be with an elegant upstairs gallery bar, open kitchen and a fresh new menu.

Lucy Self checks out The Mandeville Hotel’s Marylebone restaurant and questions whether too much comparison is a good thing. 

I think Rextail is a winner for Mr Novikov, who has hit the button this time. It’s out of my personal price range for repeat dining but the food is much better than expected; enjoyable and straightforward and the room works.

Brigade, the London Bridge restaurant where good causes and good food meet and actually get on.