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BRUCE PALLING | UNCORKED | November 28th 2007

Detail from "Dublin's Last Supper" by John Byrne; photo Wrote/Flickr

Bruce applauds Claudia Schiffer's taste in luxury, has a few reservations about Trudie Styler's, and finds the world's great chefs to be a pretty drab bunch when it comes to choosing their last suppers ...

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BRUCE PALLING | UNCORKED | November 24th 2007

Bruce has an impressive but not quite a dazzling evening in Alain Ducasse's new London restaurant. The food could do with a few tweaks he says; the clientele could do with a total refurbishment ...

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BRUCE PALLING | UNCORKED | November 19th 2007

Bruce encounters an uncompromising giant of a wine so unstoppable that it might usefully have been deployed at Omaha Beach on D-Day. One to be enjoyed a decade hence, and kept in a dark place until then ...

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BRUCE PALLING | UNCORKED | November 16th 2007

Bruce Palling does your wallet a favour by introducing you to an online wine company run by the publisher of Everyman's Library, David Campbell. The wine, by the way, is both good and cheap ...

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BRUCE PALLING | UNCORKED | November 12th 2007

Bruce gets a first taste of Le Café Anglais, the restaurant newly opened in Queensway by Rowley Leigh, whose previous flagship, Kensington Place, was the toast of west London for 20 years ...

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JON FASMAN | ACCOUNTING FOR TASTE | November 10th 2007

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Jon Fasman urges would-be smart American restaurants to offer more in the way of local cooking, and less of the Franco-Italian-Asian-accented stuff that you can find in almost every city of the developed world ...

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BRUCE PALLING | UNCORKED

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Kensington Place was full, fashionable and seriously foodie for 20 years. Bruce Palling even took his wife there on their first date. Now he wonders if KP's founding chef, Rowley Leigh, can recreate his old magic in a new restaurant down the road ...

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BRUCE PALLING | UNCORKED

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Bruce circumvents devilish obstructions to eat a marathon of magnificent meals in the French heartland of heresy, equipped only with a Michelin red guide, a sputtering mobile phone, and a long spoon ...

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