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Few things in life are as simple – or as pleasurable to eat – as a burger. That first bite, the rich, meaty and slightly charred flavours, mixed with smooth, salty cheese, the sharpness of onion and the tang of veg and sauce. If this sounds vaguely obsessive, it’s because I’ve not eaten one since … Read more
Gloria 54-56 Great Eastern St, London Rating: Gloria, a raucously flamboyant Shoreditch trattoria, doesn’t do things by halves. From the ivy-clad, pastel yellow-hued outside walls, flanked by chorus lines of succulent and herb-filled terracotta pots, to the lovely garrulous waiters clad in pink candy stripe jackets, the Neapolitan lounge-lizard low lighting and the throbbing house/disco/Eighties … Read more
The Language Of Birds Jill Dawson Sceptre £18.99 Rating: Shortly before her death in January 1976, Agatha Christie voiced a question that was on many people’s lips. ‘I wonder what HAS happened to Lord Lucan?’ A little over a year before, a 29-year-old woman, Sandra Rivett, had been bludgeoned to death in the basement of … Read more