Cheese Gromit!

Taken at Marylebone's La Fromagerie, a veritable cheese heaven, with walk-in cold storage stacked to the rafters with little fermented curds of every description.

Alfa Romeo 8c Spider

Rare sighting of this gorgeous beast parked on Regent's Park's Outer Circle.

James Dean's Red Harrington

The red Harrington style jacket worn by James Dean in Rebel Without A Cause has to be one of the most iconic pieces of movie clothing ever worn, ranking alongside Brando's Perfecto in The Wild One, Bogey's trenchcoat in Casablanca and Bruce Lee's yellow catsuit in Game of Death. Walking past Albam's store front in Soho today, I noticed they've now starting selling a new range of Harringtons in different colours, including one in a Rebel red.

I haven't the guts to wear the red one personally, as I feel you'd have to look every bit as good as the Deanster to carry it off, but I must admit that I do still love the look of it.

New York Modern

A few iphone/hipstamatic/camera+ pictures from a trip to NY City last week.

A weekend of food

It seems as though it's been a weekend of non-stop eating in our household. It all got off to a great start at Angela Hartnett's Mayfair restaurant Murano on Friday where we celebrated a double birthday and indulged ourselves over four delicious courses, the highlight of which (for me at least) was a superb white truffle risotto.

We decided to give the Taste Festival up in Regent's Park a miss, and headed instead to the Marylebone Summer Fayre where there were literally dozens of stalls serving up mouth watering treats. After pigging out on a pulled pork sandwich, I made a beeline to Peter Gordon's Providores stall, where they were serving up excellent Chorizo burgers in soft granary baps.

To follow, I decided to try two of Gordon's risottos to see how they stacked up against the Murano offering. I shared a smoked mackerel risotto and also a pea risotto with my wife. Both of these were very good, with fresh summery flavours, but ultimately they were no match for the delicate, complex flavours of Hartnett's triumphant dish.

But maybe that was expecting too much, after all the dish at Murano was around four times the cost of the Providores offering.

Panama Stowaway Overshirt from S.E.H Kelly

S.E.H Kelly's latest creation further blurs the line between light unlined jackets and heavy overshirts, being fashioned from a rigid, robust Lancastrian twill. Cut-wise, the body is narrower and the arms slightly shorter than Kelly's previous overshirts, with two roomy front pockets and rounded collars. As the manufacturer states, it's happiest worn over a t-shirt or shirt as an easy top layer. Which is another way of saying it's perfect for keeping you warm on a chilly summer evening when you're strolling back from the pub.

Around London in June