Food

Christmas Dinner, Aubrey Allen Roast Beef

It owns the coveted title of Butcher’s Shop of the Year, and Aubrey Allen never fails to disappoint. They’ve been trading for 80 years and hold a Royal Warrant.  It’s not the first time I’ve written about this family butcher in Leamington Spa who consistently…

Charles Heidsieck Champagne

In the depths of Saint-Nicaise, in the French town of Reims, sleeping beauties lie. A bunker-like steel door opens to deep, stone steps that reveal a mouse-like maze of tunnels, stretching 17kms underground, carved from chalk by the Romans. This Cathedral-silent nave holds not a…