With its enviable location and patronage that dates back to 1908, Dukes London, the home of GBR, is a bonafide institution. With chef Nigel Mendham at the helm for the last decade, winning critical acclaim, I was eager to escape the din of the city and be seated in this stalwart of St. James.
Bored of floating around on the fickle winds of fashion? I think that you need something reliable in your life. As a country boy, I work on the premise of ‘If it’s not in fashion, then it can never be out of fashion’. And I pride myself on my mantra of ‘Tradition, tradition, tradition’. However, contrary to what you may now think, we don’t just wear baggy-arsed red corduroy trousers with turn-ups at half-mast. When not slowly pickling oneself in port for the six months of darkness, the winds of fashion do occasionally blow through the ‘the sticks’. These winds tend to bring variations on tweedy classics and the odd…