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Douglas Blyde

Douglas Blyde has written 10 posts for The London Word
For butter or wurst, my greatest highs and deepest lows happen when I am armed with cutlery. I am, I suppose, a manic depressive of the dinner table.

Blackheath’s Bella Vista

Tyndall’s Jenga of crisp, lightly seasoned Polenta chips proved the meal’s revelation: the best use for maize I can imagine

Nipo-Brasileiro Dining

A trio of quivering seaweeds, aromatic as an oyster shell, came with a pot of inner Milky Way bar textured ponzu

Indian Chefs Offer Food for Thought

Food for Thought, an initiative born by charity Find Your Feet, aims to help stave off hunger and malnutrition in rural Northern India

The Landmark Hotel’s twotwentytwo

With dark panelling and bulky, jester-print armchairs, the dining room resembles ‘Hélène Darroze at The Connaught’

The Underground Restaurant

The shrill doorbell made me snigger in nervous anticipation as to who might weave past with a password

Saki of Smithfield Celebrates Cherry Blossom

I test-dined Smithfield’s Saki to see whether Chef Omakase’s seven-course ‘Cherry Blossom’ tasting menu captured the essence of spring

Eagles Tremble in Mayfair With Vic Reeves

Vic Reeves’ suit may have upstaged his art. Despite atmospheric twilight, he insisted on the flash when I took his portrait

Food With a Side of Art in Wapping

The canvases provide a glamorous contrast to the industrial atmosphere of the grade two turbine halls, where much of the machinery that powered the docks survives

Brick Lanes’ All Star Lanes

Whilst bouncers prowl the entrance, inside it feels fun and filmic. A wedge of 1950s America inserted in the East End

Dining at The Guardian Canteen

A hack from a national newspaper recently lured me to lunch at his brand new HQ. All was not well within its wavy, gleaming glass walls

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