Articles By Lisa Hilton
December 2017 / January 2018
We go to great restaurants in the hope of being transported
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November 2017
Fashionable food spots too cool to take bookings aren't worth the queues
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October 2017
Greek food is too often judged by the lowest common denominator, but the restaurant Mavrikos, in Lindos, is an epiphanic experience
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September 2017
Go to Margot if you want avvocato-chic, but the real taste of Italy can still be found in Puglia
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July/August 2017
A baroque beanfeast in an Oxfordshire manor house
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June 2017
'"Another day, another cock'" might have been a better title for the 57th Venice Biennale."
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June 2017
Crossing culinary frontiers at Mere in Fitzrovia with food gurus Monica and David Galetti
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May 2017
A trip into the country for quinoa salad and proper pub grub
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April 2017
A nightmare time at a fashionable Soho steakhouse
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March 2017
Two Michelin stars do wonders for a broken heart
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November 2015
Don't go to Copenhagen unless you have very high self-esteem: the people are beautiful and the food is world-beating
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October 2015
The best places in London to indulge in the subversive joys of smoking
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September 2015
Savouring wild Croatian delicacies on a Mediterranean desert island
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July/August 2015
The Hemsley sisters are well-meaning but their food treats people like fragile invalids
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June 2015
The hidden culinary gems of Venice
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May 2015
Horse tartare in Belgrade is nicer than hot new London restaurant Barnyard
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April 2015
A good meal is hard to find in celebrity-obsessed London
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March 2015
Alain Ducasse's new Paris flagship is indecently naff
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January/February 2015
Enchanting fresh flavours at Skye Gyngell's Spring in Somerset House
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December 2014
Finding a retro haven at lunchtime in John Lewis
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November 2014
Are country house hotels U or non-U?
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October 2014
Braving Albania's deadly roads in a vain hunt for a good meal
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September 2014
Traversing Europe in search of the ideal meal
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October 2013
A new edited collection of Italo Calvino’s letters appeals more to lovers of the Italian’s work than to the general reader, but is still deeply rewarding
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July/August 2013
The Art of Joy by Goliarda Sapienza has been hailed as the Great Italian Novel. If this is the greatest, then how dull must the rest be?
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April 2013
‘It’s easy to forget that this sophisticated modern city is nonetheless part of a repressive Communist system’
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March 2013
The infamous French libertine should be enjoying a reviva. The trouble is, he was a rotten pornographer
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March 2013
Lucy Hughes-Hallett's Life of Gabriele D'Annunzio paints a picture of a compelling and anarchic poet-statesman
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About Lisa Hilton
Lisa Hilton is a novelist and biographer. Her latest book is Elizabeth: Renaissance Prince (Weidenfeld & Nicolson), and her novel Maestra will be published next year.
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