In the small hinterland between Oxford Street, Marylebone High Street and the Edgware Road lies an area on New Quebec Street that hasn't ever been given a suitable name. It's not quite Marylebone Village, but it has a similar air of seclusion and quietly moneyed civility to it, reflected in the kinds of restaurants and bars that throng around here. Even their names sum up a certain class and refinement: The Grazing Goat; Philglass and Swiggott; and, to quite delectable effect, the Boxcar Bar and Grill, which arrived on the street recently and, after a substantial refurbishment, has established itself as not just a neighbourhood restaurant par excellence, but somewhere that deserves a discerning clientele to come from all over London to visit, and beyond. If you can find a suitably quiet and cosy corner in the rear dining room, you will be struck by several salient features before the food begins to arrive. How the atmosphere is a perfect blend of Manhattan speakeasy and somet
Aoife Keogh and her husband Keith had no experience of farming when they sold their house in Bray, Co Wicklow and moved to a farm in rural Monaghan in 2021.