Bancone is a pasta restaurant – just don’t call it Italian Life&Style A new restaurant below the imposing walls of the Bank of England is serving pasta – just don’t call this Italian food. I’m told the rare breed beef and marrowbone pasta is a British dish. Is a restaurant Italian because they serve pasta? As any City worker will know, Bancone’s silken threads are kneaded in the [...]
Eurostar menu: We were first to try the new food – was it good? Life&Style As the debate rages about whether it’s okay to drink pints of lager at 5am before boarding a Ryanair flight (how else are you supposed to get through it?), we at Morning Wire turn our thoughts to an altogether more refined method of transport: the Eurostar. Readers of Morning Wire hardly need to be educated [...]
Alta review: Serious Spanish food amid the Carnaby crowds Life&Style Alta, Kingly Ct, Carnaby, W1B 5PW | Nearest Tube: Oxford Circus With its jolly pink furniture and candy-striped awnings, Kingly Court has an air of unreality. It’s a Disneyfied version of what food culture might look like if it were imagined by a private equity firm, a place designed to house tourists grappling with their disappointment [...]
Food Review: Ranking Wetherspoon’s Christmas menu at new Waterloo pub December 25, 2024 Morning Wire's finest food reviewers, Steve Dinneen, Anna Moloney and Christopher Dorrell, try every single item on the new Wetherspoon's festive menu.