Our first week in Paris and what a week it was! We moved into our flat, met up with old pals and ate out no less than twice a day, every day. Why? Because we have neither a fridge nor an oven. But what better way to get to know a new city than trying every local… [Read more…]
August 25, 2010
This is it. Not in the Michael Jackson sense. But our farewell to London. Three years, eleven months and eight days after arriving in the Big Smoke, we find ourselves once again, passport in hand at the Eurostar terminal. In the intervening years, the terminal has of course moved from Waterloo to St Pancras. Other… [Read more…]
August 16, 2010
We’ve made an astonishing scientific breakthrough, dear readers. Yes, that’s right, your friends at The Prodigal Guide -while stumbling around life’s frivolous sidelines, drunk and mostly disorderly – have chanced upon an, as yet, undiscovered – certainly not yet properly documented – new syndrome. Our dictionary defines a syndrome as “a group of symptoms that… [Read more…]
August 11, 2010
One Saturday afternoon we arranged to meet our good friend McNally for lunch. The intriguing part of the story is that he brought along his teenage son whom we’d never met but had heard lots about. As it turned out, he was the most charming teenager we’d come across. Far cooler than we ever were and… [Read more…]
August 4, 2010
We thought we knew all about Martinis. As a founding member of the Dry Martini Club (DMC to its friends) we have spent the last four years researching, making, re-making and tasting Martinis. What more could we learn? As it turns out, quite a lot. And we’re going to share it all with you. Right… [Read more…]
August 2, 2010
If ever one man truly lived the Prodigal lifestyle it is James Bond. The cars, the food, the gadgets, the travel, the watches, the – eh – nocturnal activities: everyone’s favourite gentlemen spy had the life we all aspire to. Or do we? The truth is that if you’ve ever actually tried to match Mr… [Read more…]
July 28, 2010
The new Toku is here! Located next door to the wonderful Japan Centre (which has moved around the corner from Piccadilly to Regent Street), the new restaurant is even better than the old location. Sure, it’s still pretty basic in terms of decor, but the food is excellent. We arranged to meet a friend and… [Read more…]
July 26, 2010
The inaugural Prodigal Meetup took place in Paris just over a week ago. Predictably, it was a slightly shambolic and very drunken affair. So, what follows is our best – if not totally accurate – recollection of a day which was surprising, enlightening and fun in equal measures. We arrived at Paris’ Gare du Nord… [Read more…]
July 21, 2010
As the reality of our impending move to Paris kicks in, we’re starting to realise that there is so much more than our first list that we’re going to miss about this wonderful city. Here are another ten as they have occurred to us (and we wouldn’t be surprised if at least one more of… [Read more…]
July 15, 2010
“I didn’t book anything; I thought that way we’d have more options” are crushing words if you hear them – as we did – standing, hungry and so very thirsty, on a street corner in Mayfair at 12:30 on a busy Saturday afternoon. We’d met-up with the idiot responsible for uttering them at Omega on… [Read more…]
July 8, 2010
Dear readers Back at the beginning of June, we retired to bed one evening having just read our own review of ABP, the incredible watch strap supplier in Paris and, as it turns out, having had one helping of Camembert too many. We later woke in the middle of the night possessed by both severe… [Read more…]
July 7, 2010
So, the die is cast: we’re off to the city of lights. Woo hoo! And with one month to go, there is much to savour about our beloved London before we leave. Here’s a list of the ten things we’ll miss most about the big smoke. 1. Running through Hyde Park on a sunny Sunday… [Read more…]
June 30, 2010
One Thursday night we unexpectedly ended up in the city of lights. Called to the Paris office for urgent business, we stayed the weekend, tried out some of the city’s trendiest neighbourhoods and ate and drank our way through the next 48 hours. But faced with a professional dilemma and a potential move to Paris,… [Read more…]
June 23, 2010
Spanish fever continues this week. Following our Madrid sejour, we couldn’t resist booking London’s answer to a tapas bar, Tendido Cero for dinner with BFF. The same day as our date, La Roja suffered a disappointng loss to Switzerland in the World Cup. Totally irrelevant to this article of course, but mentioning it allows us… [Read more…]
June 16, 2010
It’s about time here at The Prodigal Guide that we faced up to some home truths. We can no longer deny it. We are total, unapologetic Hispanophiles. It all began in the early 90s when the awkward Spanish boys at school blossomed into beautiful young Mediterranean men. Indeed, our first broken heart came at the… [Read more…]
June 9, 2010
Muchisimo! Scott´s had been on our wish list ever since we moved to London in 2006 so when Mother Patito was in town for the Chelsea Flower Show we finally took advantage and placed a call to Caprice Holdings. Chef director, Tim Hughes, is responsible for Caprice Holdings´nine sites, including Le Caprice, Scott´s and The Ivy. … [Read more…]
June 8, 2010
We’ve been toying with the idea for a while now. We love writing this nonsense, you seem to like reading it, and we love getting into discussions with those of you who leave comments. Our most popular posts – certainly the ones that elicit the most comments and hits – are often the watch-related ones.… [Read more…]
June 2, 2010
When you have a hot date in London town, you need to pick somewhere special. And in a city where you’re spoilt for choice, that could be any number of places. But for Mr Fling’s visit to London one venue stood out: the oh-so-cool Dean Street Townhouse in the heart of Soho. Owned by the… [Read more…]
June 1, 2010
Sometime between the fifth and sixth bottles of Veuve Cliquot, we directed our gaze at the group of Dutch pseudo-mobsters in the poolside bed across from ours. They’d been spraying each other with champagne for several hours now, along with the, ahem, ladies who’d screwed themselves to their posse. Hard, thirsty work indeed and it… [Read more…]
May 26, 2010
We love anything food or drink related so an invitation from an old university friend, affectionately known as Shrimp, to the Real Food Festival at Earls Court was just up our street (quite literally in fact as we live in the neighbourhood). We met outside the exhibition centre at 2pm on a rainy Saturday afternoon… [Read more…]
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