Róisín Lanigan

The Princess and the Pitta

Truly the people’s café.
Margaret Mitchell

If You Can’t Beauchamp, Join Them

Learning the secret of eternal life from a Kensington pizzeria owner, Ciro Orsini, who at the age of 75, still dresses like a biker – and who still has an eye for the ladies.
Jimmy McIntosh

A Pint of Plane

Following a famous footballers’ binge.
Ian Trueger

The Feast of Saint John

A particular central London restaurant has enjoyed an offally good time over the past few years, wouldn't you agree?
Charlotte Ivers

Baker’s Dozen

Tom Baker was a hard-drinking, fine-dining legend whose Soho sprees were captured in an infamous 1978 newspaper profile. 45 years later, a younger writer retraces his steps in a new, more sanitised era.
Ed Cumming

Two Eds are Better than One

Ed Cumming has a funny name. He's not the only one. So he took his name twin out for lunch to commiserate this reality.
Jimmy McIntosh

The Life of Reilly

Our pints correspondent ventures through time and place at a gently pissed pace, in search of John Betjeman's London.
Ed Cumming

Lunch for The Fence

How often do you have to file in order to be called a regular columnist? As this story proved, the answer is 'two years', as our free lunch editor returns for his second bite at the cadging cherry.
Jimmy McIntosh

Looking for Bagley’s

Our pints correspondent went for a night out in King’s Cross.
Jimmy McIntosh

Oliver Reed’s Big Night Out

Our pints correspondent drinks in the shadow of a giant.