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Founder of Landing Light, Exec Chair of Easel Projects and Manchester Art Fair. Restaurant critic and consultant advising property companies and public sector on hospitality and culture. Invests, collects, runs up hills. Northerner, husband, dad of adults.
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Lunchtime 10km. Moorfield and environs.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Made it through a day, and a lunch, with unspoilt white chinos. I'm getting the hang of this wearing trousers thing.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

The Armenian Taverna. What a spot for an al fresco lunch.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Many a great day out has started out in the back of The Devonshire.

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I went to Jugemu and had the best Japanese food of my life. Perfect takoyaki, beautiful dumplings, some more intriguing dishes like bacon-wrapped mochi skewers, and tuna nigiri which was, frankly, breathtaking.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

I loved Kol and I adored Fonda, and now I've finally made it to brothers Santiago and Eduardo Lastra's third operation - The Mezcalaria, just downstairs from their Michelin starred and 50 Best Restaurants listed Marylebone restaurant.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

I love all the restaurants from the stable of Will Lander and his colleagues, but The Quality Chophouse might just be my favourite. It's in Farringdon, a short stroll from Angel if you've landed at Euston, so no excuses. Get the second cheap train down from Manchester and you can seated by 12:30pm.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Take a look at @heshootstheyscore on Instagram. A unique insight, through an extensive library of shots, into the characters and atmosphere of '90s football. A glorious, evocative nostalgia-fest.

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

He got a barking ticket etc etc.

submitted 51 days ago • 0 comments

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz344bs

submitted 53 days ago • 6 comments

The thing that keeps me sane at MIPIM, no matter what time I go to bed, is my morning runs. Being a Glossopian the organised runs around the town and La Croisette don't do it for me, I need hills and solitude.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Oursins-a-plenty in Cannes last week.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Weather-wise Cannes was seldom good and frequently awful, but MIPIM-spirits prevailed and I had an absolute blast. What an event and what a place. The Manchester stand in particular felt like an oasis on pragmatic optimism and deliverable certainty in a world gone mad.

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Thw Sunday Times Best Hotel of the Year is The Peak District's own Cavendish Hotel. I'm Baslow, just over the hill from me. I was there recently and it was excellent.

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

Cannes do.

submitted 58 days ago • 0 comments

If you want to feel like a professional food photographer, take your shots on a crisp Spring day in @erst_mcr. It's one of very few venues where every image effortlessly and accurately reflects the bright brilliance of the food itself. No post-production necessary.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

If you want to feel like a professional food photographer, take your shots on a crisp Spring day in @erst_mcr. It's one of very few venues where every image effortlessly and accurately reflects the bright brilliance of the food itself. No post-production necessary.

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

Getting the right accommodation at MIPIM is almost as important as wearing the right shoes. ZZZ have smashed it this year, I have a balcony and everything!

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

Front page of what is one of the world's great papers - The FT Weekend. And 'above the fold' too. What a thrill. I was chatting to Jancis Robinson and her husband, lapsed Mancunian Nick Lander, at a wine lunch in London late last year, telling them a tale of Manchester's burgeoning wine scene.

submitted 60 days ago • 1 comment