Henry comes to Mayfair. He felt very much at home. Allens of Mayfair is a game dealer as well as a butcher and is thought to supply quite a lot of London restaurants with their game including grouse. I wonder whether this part of Mayfair is part of the 100 acres owned by the Duke…
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Henry knows the Rules
On a recent trip to London, Henry (you didn’t think he’d gone away did you?) looked in to Rules restaurant. Now Rules has a very strange attitude to customer care (see here, here, here) and although there was initial friendliness from some of the waiting staff someone looking more senior started closing curtains and…
Marching on
James Marchington has a go at me in something called ‘ishoot’. Apparently I am having a mid-life crisis and should have run off with my secretary on a Harley Davidson instead of campaigning about the ills of grouse shooting. Thanks for the advice James. There was a time when James wrote rather good pieces…
M&S find a reason not to sell grouse this year – good!
Under a photograph of heather, but no grouse, M&S state that they won’t be selling grouse in their stores this year but they are selling a range of other game from October onwards. M&S claim that they have made lots of progress in identifying estates where raptors have ‘high’ (surely they mean ‘absolute’ – this…
A meal out
I’m planning a meal out with friends and I’m trying to find the restaurant in London that is most aware of the issues surrounding game meat, particularly Red Grouse meat, for this treat. I won’t be eating grouse wherever we go, but I’d like to spend my money on my friends at a restaurant which…