dines at Angler, at South Place Hotel

At last the talented Tony Fleming has launched Angler, at the newly opened South Place Hotel.  As Executive Chef Tony is responsible for several spaces in the hotel, including three bars, all the private dining, and two restaurants.  Angler sits upstairs and has it's own outside terrace - so you'll know where to find me next summer...  It even has a summer kitchen, so that some foods can be prepared outside.  We sat towards the back of the restaurant, where one of the tables overlooks the kitchen. From there you can see all of the action, and the precision with which they plate at the pass.

dines at Axis...

It's best if I declare that I've been talking to Tony Fleming, the Executive Chef at Axis, for months now. In those conversations we've established that over the years I've been following Tony around London. I've eaten in almost every restaurant he's has cooked in, and that list includes the Criterion, the Oak Room, Escargot, Richard Neat and the Great Eastern Hotel. When we did finally speak, it was because Tony appeared on ITV's Britain's Best Dish cooking a blackberry soufflé... Well. I'm a bit of a soufflé obsessive, so it was inevitable that this would be the thing that would draw us into conversation.