Weekend food with Darina Allen: Vanilla and Chocolate Ice Cream with Crumbled Honeycomb
A reader asked me recently for my ‘London List’. I realised that it’s quite some time since I devoted a column to my new finds. We’re so fortunate to be so close to London – a mere 50 minutes hassle free hop from Cork or Dublin. For those of us who are connected to the restaurant scene it’s a big bonus to be so close to one of the most exciting food capitals in the entire world. I pop backwards and forwards regularly for meetings and events so I use each of these opportunities to try out new places. Hence I’m regularly asked for my list of favourite cafes, restaurants and cocktail bars.
One of my most unexpected discoveries is called The Other Naughty Piglet. The name is super cute, not normally a good sign, and then there’s the location, right in the centre of the theatre district. The restaurant is upstairs above the lobby in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Palace Theatre on Shaftsbury Avenue. While I was climbing the grim, blingy marble staircase I was convinced that what lay ahead would be disappointing. I couldn’t have been more mistaken.
