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Category Archives: Evenings Out
High Steaks Blind Tasting
Forget Henley, Goodwood, Polo and the rest of the so-called ‘Season’. Saturday evening saw the summer’s most exclusive and highly anticipated event, The Roberson Saturday Steak Night.
Firstly our hats must be removed for chef Ben Greene who cooked up a storm. A storm of chips and steak. Sourced from Barons Court’s HG Walter, an organic, [...]
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Dinner at L’Astrance, Paris
Continuing the Roberson ‘Hedonists Gazette’ part of the blog, it was with some excitement I sat down to lunch at L’Astrance, one of the most talked-about restaurants in France. Receiving its third Michelin star in 2006, this is a three star restaurant like no other, a fact that becomes clear very quickly. The dining room [...]
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Brotherhood of the Wine Socks
As a committed Burgundophile I have dreamed of one day being invited to join the ‘Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin’. It is a place where the crème de la crème of wine makers, merchants and writers come together to share the finest and rarest wines of Burgundy – and perhaps the world’s most illustrious drinking [...]
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A night at The Ledbury
During the month of August, The Ledbury restaurant in W11 has turned into the poshest BYOB in town and is charging zero corkage. So when a friend announced that he was organising his birthday dinner there, myself and Gav didn’t need asking twice.
London isn’t short of great restaurants, but I have been meaning to visit [...]
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Dinner at Bentleys
The Roberson team embarked on wet Sunday for the annual ‘Christmas’ dinner – which, this year was in mid-febuary, I hear that it has even been as late as August in the past.
The venue was Bentleys in Mayfair, I turned up early and nearly didn’t get in at all. I said hello, the large (but [...]
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Drinking Now – 05 Prulier? Madness
A recent evening out with an old colleague now at John Armit and some friends saw us catch up and become less coherant over the following a couple of nights ago.
2005 Wynns Coonawarra Cabernet.
Another good vintage from Sue Hodder, and fine, but a bit of a case of a wine reaching not surpassing expectations. Light, [...]
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It’s Finally Official – Roberson is the best in London
It’s amazing what a good suit will do for you. With poise, confidence and good bearing, a well-chosen suit will give you form, tuck you in and show you at your best. None of that happened with the motley clothes worn by myself, Cliff and Mark at the annual IWC awards dinner at the Grovesner [...]
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Roberson wins London Wine Merchant of the Year!