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Food and Wine

Sausage roll-call

Describing the taste of food is probably as hard as describing the sounds of music. The experience of taste being diminished by the very act of attempting to put it into words

The Discriminator Dines Out

Alessandro Tome continues his tour of London's finest at Zafferano

Let Us Entertain You

Good food, good drink, good company, good weather — Victoria Cator and Lucinda Bruce’s simple recipe for a swell summer

Nice Pair

William Sitwell meets Des and David, the discreet yet dashing duo (one dry, one dapper) behind 30 of the capital’s top restaurants, from Launceston Place to Coq d’Argent

La Petite Maison

La Petite Maison, a charming Southern French restaurant in the heart of Mayfair has a most welcoming and charming ambiance.

To lig or not to lig

Freebies are not always what they seem. Junket etiquette is a complicated thing. The ligger does not always lig lightly. Free dinners and trips can have a price attached.

The new Palm is an excellent addition to London's fine dining scene, says Wendy Coumantaros. One can even order Nova Scotia lobster with a choice of male or female. (The male is more delicate, apparently - it had to happen in one species.)

Salivating at the Mouth

You don't sense that chef Jacob Kenedy is the tantrum sort, given the calmness of the restaurant and its City patrons who have gone all daring and got out their passports for the evening.

Probably the best restaurant in the world

Some people’s idea of dining hell might be Trattoria Mario in Florence. You can’t book. You don’t even get your own table for two. You get put where there’s space

Ready, Steady, Legislate

The idea that famous people could make good politicians because they are famous is fatuous. Why not elect celebrity chefs?

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Spear's Salon

A Very English Revolution

“...The battle over the government’s planning reforms was a very English Revolution.”

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Books

Spear's/Amazon Bookstore

You can buy all the books reviewed in Spear's and mentioned in it or on spearswms.com in the Spear's/Amazon Bookstore

Spear's Book Awards 2012: Nominate here

The fourth Spear’s Book Awards, celebrating the very best writing talent and British books of the year — from finance to fiction — will take place in late June at a glamorous literary lunch in central London

Ashenden Found: On the Trail of a Missing Somerset Maugham Book

Nigel West

Nigel West dons his dark glasses and fedora and heads to the Hotel d'Angleterre in Geneva, where Somerset Maugham stayed as a spy in the First World War. Has Maugham's destroyed book been found?