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.
Joe Bishop

Twenty out of Twenty

An encounter with the best living food writer.
Jimmy McIntosh

Something Is Rotten on the Street of Denmark

Outernet is one of the most controversial new buildings in central London. We sent our pints correspondent for an evening under its glaring great screens.
Mina Miller

Forman, Grilled

Fishy business inside a very strange salmon smokehouse.
Jimmy McIntosh

Strangers in the Night

Our resident booze maven went for a night out in Parliament.