I don't eat out much in London these days so was taken aback by the prices last night. Nearly £75 for 4 dishes and 1 glass of sherry at Barrafina. Just crazy.

Congrats to Jon Bonné for winning the André Simon Awards for his New French Wine. It's an absolute tour de force. Or should that be tour de France. I got a pint at Wetherspoons so, in some ways, we're both winners.

🎶 'I'm still Emile from the block.
Used to ocelittle, now I ocelot.' 🎶

Henry Jeffreys' book is full of swearing youtu.be/lBlBVr46ItA?si…

Writing something on drinks associated with TV and film and can only think of US examples like White Russian in the Big Lebowski. Any British ones (except James Bond)?

The self-hatred of its intellectuals.

“It must be extremely irritating for people like Victoria Moore at the Daily Telegraph or Fiona Beckett at the Guardian and their predecessors who have been making a complicated subject accessible for years.”

Wine bars year zero henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/wine-bars-ye…

There are people on here with 'former blue tick' in their profiles.

I think it's a tough call to claim privatisation didn't boost ridership. Sure, it increased costs and it might have increased fragmentation in certain areas too, but I'm dead sure it boosted passenger numbers. Here's why 👇🧵

Just saw my first tattooed youth swaggering around with his shirt off of the year - summer is coming!

Just made a joke about Victor Kiam in a company-wide meeting, absolute tumble weeds.

The changing rules of what Googles ranks for reminds me of 1066 & All That: 'Gladstone .. spent his declining years trying to guess the answer to the Irish Question; unfortunately, whenever he was getting warm, the Irish secretly changed the Question'

I reviewed Maitlis, Goodall, Phillips, Warsi, Baddiel and others. Oh my.
thecritic.co.uk/politics-with-…

I kept expecting someone to walk in at any moment and say: “I mentioned Mussolini but I think I got away with it”. Mondovino 20 years on. henryjeffreys.substack.com/p/mondovino-20…