Part of the fabulous Royal Harbour Hotel @RHHotel, the Empire Room serves local, seasonal food and drink in a club like setting 5 days a week (closed Mo&Tu)
“Is this the final straw for our hotels and B&Bs?” - a sobering report by Chris Haslam @dromomaniac in today’s @timestravel on a sector “threatened from all sides”, with quotes from @UKHospKate and @davidjweston of @BandBassoc (“these are the worst trading conditions I’ve seen”)
Chef @KoffmannPierre and I are launching our restaurant review website Koffmann and Vines tomorrow, kicking off with Trattoria Brutto by Russell Norman https://t.co/pJfgiqknGd
Added a new #Ramsgate restaurant to the Eating & Drinking Guide https://t.co/aQe09JlpcT It's "Travellers In Italy" sister restaurant to @LittleShipsKent and @EmpRoom and the menu looks very inviting 😋
"It was the Hamptons of the 1800s, when everyone from Queen Victoria to Karl Marx frolicked in the surf. Today, the #Kent coast is at turns incandescently beautiful ...full of historic smugglers’ coves and wild swimming as it is faded Georgian glories"
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