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Douglas Blyde visits Alex Dilling's establishment at Regent Street's Hotel Café Royal. While there, he discovers how "perpetually positive" head sommelier Giuseppe Grasso has developed the restaurants list, and finds one dish that evokes "very posh Marmite".
Writing about exotic food, fancy restaurants is now the in thing. Even Abhijit Banerjee, the Nobel economics prize winning economist, wrote about his
Douglas Blyde pays a visit to Oxfordshire's Aynhoe Park, home to "remarkable debut act" The Orangery at RH England. During his visit, he tastes the "snug" wine selection overseen by buyer Cassidy Henderson, and revels in a selection of dishes grilled over wood.
Douglas Blyde visits Pétrus by Gordon Ramsay and discovers from head sommelier Daniel Chelo how there is more to the Belgravia restaurant's wine offering than the legendary Pomerol red.
Douglas Blyde heads to Hearth at Heckfield Place in Hampshire and digs into its farm-to-table ethos, including a dish of cauliflower "good enough to consider a conversion to vegetarianism".