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Article: Food& drink: Eating out- Addendum is the perfect place to " quite literally " pig out, says Terry Durack Addendum Apex City of London Hotel, 1 Seething Lane, London EC3, tel: 020 7977 9500 Lunch and dinner served Monday to Friday. Around pounds 130 for two including wine and service
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- The Independent on Sunday (London, England)
- Article date:
- January 8, 2006
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I'm loving it. The cooking is seamless, the atmosphere benign, the
wine charming. Then I look over to my wife, my constant companion in
cutlery, my fellow fearless flavour-seeker, and I can't believe what
I am seeing. That little moue, that tiny frown, as if someone has
stubbed out a cigarette in her dinner. She hates it.
This never happens. We disagree often, and argue occasionally, but
we are never diametrically opposed. Mutual respect (she is a food
writer with 13 cookbooks to her name) and enormous quantities of
Pinot Noir generally lead to agreement being reached on most issues.
But what on earth can she object to at Addendum " apart from the
needlessly corporate name and the somewhat ...