Maureen M. Evans

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Casa Virginia

Old bones, big ideas & a full heart

Good restaurants move us: between places and through periods of time, setting forth a torrent of feelings that are both familiar and unfamiliar, nostalgic and entirely new.

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A Tavola

Meals and moments in temporal spaces

Inaugurated in April 2024 in Milan during Salone del Mobile, A Tavola took place at Paradiso Bar among friends.

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South West Solace

Merlin Labron-Johnson

For those who ‘have appetite, will travel’, Merlin Labron-Johnson’s endeavours are putting Bruton on the map above all else.

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Café Cecilia

‘Simple food done well.’ That’s how Max Rocha, the Dublin-born chef behind London’s busiest restaurant.

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Margaret Howell

Dressed in Feeling

Howell is a hands-on designer; references to nature meld with descriptions of fabric frequently.

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James Plumb

The Lightest Touch

Shortly before the pandemic took its hold, the pair found themselves in need of recalibration, a pause to exhale, and so scaled down.

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