Cafés

Ready, Steady, BRUNCH! Local spots we love

The perfect mix of relaxed ambience and foodie fun - it has to be brunch.
Pinkies poised?

If you’re on the hunt for a gift voucher or just after inspiration for a later date, then we’re here to help – feast your eyes on these brilliant afternoon tea spots in Hants & IoW.
The Canteen, Old Portsmouth

Lunch with a side of ummm.... military history? Muddy heads to The Canteen, a waterfront cafe housed in a former battery and barracks, to try out some top quality nosh.
31 Below, Marylebone

You can keep Oxford, Bond and Kensington - it's Marylebone High Street and its new watering hole, 31 Below, all the way for me!
Cowleyfornication

Oxford's left-field Cowley Road.
Before Sunset

Rick Stein's outdoor cinema.
Easy-breezy Brunch

Easy-breezy brunch in the countryside.
Healthy Food: Hampshire Style

While the world of health-food faddism plumbs new depths of mad — Amanda Chantal Bacon’s Moon Juice Dust with cordyceps, reishi and shilajit resin now retailing on net-a-porter for £50 a tin — us sensible mortals are embracing a different way of eating. Books like Bee Wilson’s This Is Not A Diet Book: A User’s Guide to Eating […]