The play’s the thing.

It’s a quote from arguably the Bard’s most famous play . It’s what’s written on the top of the set menu for pre theatre supper at the Swan Bistro, next to Shakespeare’s Globe. It’s also a good approach to an evening that involves both.

For a woman who had Shakespeare chock up more than a third of her first degree, it’s a little shameful that it’s taken this long for us to find our way to a performance at The Globe Theatre.

It’s now up there in my top 10 experiences in London.  Really, if you’re going to go and see Shakespeare somewhere in the world (and …

“What do you mean you haven’t been to Morito? You’ll love it. Go. Go now.”

This is what a friend once said to me. And now this is what I am saying to you.

It’s easy to become stuck in a rut of what you do on a lazy spare day on a weekend. It’s easy to fall into returning again to local places- where you know what you’re going to get and how you’re going to get home (Jose, Brindisa, I’m looking at you).

But life is too short to eat at the same place every weekend. Even if it is delicious.

In essence I have no decent excuse for why it took …