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Eating Out Review - Smith & Wollensky

Sometimes only steak will do, and for those times there is Smith & Wollensky. The New York Times described it as “A steakhouse to end all arguments”, and this US steakhouse has certainly enjoyed a triumphant expansion, from its original

Theatre Review - True West at The Vaudeville Theatre

After the excellent revival of Buried Child in 2016, it is heartening to see yet another Sam Shephard classic, True West, in the West End. This play, written in 1980, was apparently a box office failure when it debuted at the Public Theatre

Theatre Review - The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Matilda the Musical at the Cambridge Theatre

The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Matilda the Musical opened in the West End over seven years ago and is still going strong today. On the night I saw it at the Cambridge Theatre in London, there was a happy mixture of families, school groups,

Eating Out Review - PF Chang's Asian Table

Just near to the heart of London is the first UK restaurant of the US chain PF Chang. The location is a former jazz club on the edge of Chinatown and has been designed like an upmarket New York restaurant with exposed pipes zigzagging the

Theatre Review - Witness for the Prosecution at London County Hall

Reviewed by Lydia ParkerWitness for the Prosecution was originally adapted by Agatha Christie in 1951 for the stage from a short story she had written in 1925 entitled Traitor Hands. Her producer, Peter Saunders, was so keen to see the

The Jungle at the Playhouse Theatre

Review by Lydia ParkerThe Jungle, which has transferred from The Young Vic to the West End, immerses its London audience in the middle of the refugee encampment which was built up near Calais from 2015 to 2016. Playwrights Joe Murphy and

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