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| Right, bugger. You lot must have been pretty skint recently, because Earlsfield has been one fickle, quiet place recently. As most of you will know I have some expensive tastes, those test match tickets in faraway countries don't pay for themselves ......... |
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20/09/2007 00:00:00 |
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After the quite spectacular whinge of the last entry (thanks for pointing that out Mum) it would seem that I have something to smile about. There’s a new piece of silverware above my bar: the coveted BICC Battle of the Bars 2007 Winner’s Trophy.
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03/09/2007 00:00:00 |
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Well, what a summer. Or perhaps a more accurate use of punctuation: Well, what? A summer?
Yes, I imagine I’m not the only one to have realized that up until last Tuesday I was sticking out of the sunroof of my little Peugeot 206, canoeing it do......... |
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| 16th May 2007
Alright, no more haranguing – I mean you mother (clearly my greatest fan) - here is the next thrilling installment of my life as a restaurateur.
Well, I think we should start where we left off – no, not Bob Woolmer, who, as far......... |
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16/05/2007 00:00:00 |
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Well, it’s about time I wrote something, wouldn’t you say? I have to say that it’s been very kind of a lot of you guys to comment on this blog when you’ve come to dinner recently. It also makes me feel quite guilty that I haven’t managed to put fi......... |
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13/03/2007 00:00:00 |
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| I travelled 10,000 miles over 33 hours (45 minutes of which spinning around in the air above Heathrow) to find the ice machine has broken down. Welcome back to London.......... |
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12/01/2007 00:00:00 |
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| Myself at the SCGWhat can I say? Sydney is a fantastic city. I left London on Christmas day a broken man, and have put myself back together i......... |
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08/01/2007 00:00:00 |
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Well, well, well. It's actually been a great Christmas period for us. You may note my surprise as most businesses in this industry notoriously run riot at this time of year. The same however, can not have been said for Earlsfield in the&......... |
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21/12/2006 00:00:00 |
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| What a difference a day makes…It’s incredible what one day can do for you. Having hit the serious doldrums for the last couple of weeks I had a great day on Tuesday which has kickstarted me ionto action.
Doldrums, eh? Well, contrary to popular be......... |
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05/10/2006 00:00:00 |
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Ok, I’m a twat. This was meant to be a sparkly, entertaining diary of a young restaurateur blah, blah, blah… Yet I haven’t managed to write an update for two months. All I’ll say is that following the last update (entitled "the doldrums") at least......... |
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05/10/2006 00:00:00 |
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A lot of people ask my staff and I about the photos that decorate the walls of the restaurant, so in this entry I have invited my father, live by telephone and MSN from Istanbul, to talk about some of our favorites. First I’ll tell you how they go......... |
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06/09/2006 09:56:57 |
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| Well it's been a while since my last update, I put that down to the restaurant doing fantastically well and my subsequent celebrations. It's been absolutely rammed to the rafters and I have to say, my most fun passage of play since the restaurant's ......... |
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01/08/2006 00:00:00 |
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| I went on a stake-out last night. The restaurant was busy, as it has been all week, and i was doing my books when my phone rang. It was a friend of mine who is a landlord. "Mate, drop everything, my tenants leaving and I need to find out where she's......... |
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09/06/2006 00:00:00 |
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| Oh dear, had a very bad cricket session on Sunday. Ran out our ex-county player when he was on 45, got out for a duck shortly afterwards, got carted for 33 off three overs by some South African beast and cracked a rib whilst attempting to field a ba......... |
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05/06/2006 00:00:00 |
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Well, well, well... we're in Time Out Magazine's list of top 50 London bars & restaurants. It's almost three years to the day that I turned up to a building site in Garratt Lane, fresh out of university with journalism on my mind. It......... |
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30/05/2006 00:00:00 |
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There's a certain beverage supplier that I just can't part company with. What I am describing is not some kind of perverse love-hate relationship, but it's simply the case that they have what I want, and they are the only people who have......... |
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09/05/2006 00:00:00 |
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Cricket rained off on sunday, which is a surprise considering the drought we're meant to be having. Should I now serve jugs of tap water at a premium to encourage people to substitute with bottled mineral water? It seems the most ethical thing to ......... |
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25/04/2006 00:00:00 |
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| Well, here is the first entry. Three weeks after having returned from India to watch England win their first test match in 21 years in Mumbai and playing plenty of beach cricket in Goa, I am back at the helm. The old boy's been packed off to Turkey ......... |
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19/04/2006 00:00:00 |
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My name is Timur and as of this moment I am twenty-four years old. I'm an English public-school product of Turkish parents who settled here in London in the 1960's.
I jointly own the restaurant with my father.
He came ......... |
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10/03/2006 00:00:00 |
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