TABLE TALK WHERE ROB SHREEVE EATS...

摘要

For about 10 years, I ran the publishing wing at Virgin, based on the top floor of Richard Rogers' building in Hammersmith, above the River Cafe. As tenants, we were part of the family, and I used to go there three times a week. It's just such a great place, bright and bustling, and there are boxes of fresh herbs growing outside, and tomatoes ripening in the sun. Getting the smells of Italy is amazing for that part of London. And the food is so distinctive: scallops the size of small tea-cakes, succulent and beautifully cooked; calamari, carpaccio and wonderful fresh polenta; and simple things like chicken, roasted for a particular flavour in a wood-burning stove. But you won't get much change out of a couple of hundred pounds.