Travel

Wine flights at Fortnum's

Posted by Fiona Beckett on January 17 2008 at 09:09

With half an hour to kill I finally managed to get to Fortnum & Mason’s groundbreaking wine bar 1707 the other day. It’s situated in their very posh new wine department in the basement and offers an impressive range of wines by the glass with a modest menu of snacks that would make a good pre-theatre supper.

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Some great Gascon discoveries

Posted by Fiona Beckett on January 14 2008 at 06:48

Last week I spent a couple of days in the Gers region in the south-west of France researching a piece on foie gras (for which you’ll have to wait a couple of months, I’m afraid, until it’s published in Decanter). But I made some other interesting discoveries.

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My first encounter with Alain Ducasse

Posted by Fiona Beckett on November 26 2007 at 08:59

Alain Ducasse at the Dorchester in a nutshell:

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The best 'French' restaurant in Britain

Posted by Fiona Beckett on September 1 2007 at 17:23

Yesterday we went to one of my all-time favourite restaurants Le Champignon Sauvage in Cheltenham. It bills itself as a ‘restaurant Francais’ which might lead one to believe, given the modesty of its surroundings, that it serves simple bistro food. In fact it is French only in the sense of the total dedication of its chef/proprietor David Everitt-Matthias to the pursuit of three Michelin stars.

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