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Iowa in 2008: The Future is Already Here

Thursday, January 3, 2008

All my friends at The Warrington in England who didn’t know what or where Iowa is (”sounds familiar though”) are getting their quat-annual reminder today as my fair home state makes front page news internationally, including three front pages in the Guardian, The Independent and below the fold featuring McCain in the Tory Times.
As my [...]

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Where to Eat in Maida Vale whilst waiting for Gordon Ramsay and Holdings to get the Warrington Sorted

Sunday, May 20, 2007

Or… Hello, lovely Idlewild, so long dodgy Truscott Arms…
Somewhere between the time Gordon Ramsay circled the Warrington last autumn in his 4×4 and this week’s first big test match at Lord’s, the Ruby Group of London has SOMEHOW managed to buy, close, gut, decorate, and re-open the council-housing hangout Truscott Arms on Shirland Road as [...]

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What the pub did for me

Friday, May 18, 2007

At a pub, I learned the English are hard to get to know.
But once you know them, it’s hard to let them go. And they don’t let go easy. They are like old dogs. Completely faithful. But they probably won’t leap up when you come in.
In a pub I learned how beautiful cigarette smoke is, [...]

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Maida Vale is our Local

Friday, May 11, 2007

If you must leave someplace, you should leave it sad to go.
After we left our Randolph Avenue flat, we were desperate to stay in Maida Vale. It isn’t the best place in London, just as any single person isn’t the best person in the world.
No. Just like a person,

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Treading Water at the Warrington

Saturday, April 28, 2007

God, it’s gorgeous right now in Maida Vale… I just glanced down Clifton Gardens one afternoon and, suddenly, every tree is in leaf and the air is full of the smell of hyacinths in bloom.
Ahhh, spring… a time for freshness, renewal, of kicking open doors, shaking out rugs, polishing windowpanes, letting in the light.
Meanwhile back [...]

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Ben’s Thai London… Now Dang!

Sunday, April 22, 2007

For those still looking for Maida Vale’s favourite Thai restaurant, Ben’s Thai, formerly of the Warrington Hotel, don’t worry, it hasn’t gone far.
Under the new name, Dang at Ben’s Thai, Dang and her clan have moved above another pub, the Robert Browning, on Clifton Road. This gritty old man’s boozer, situated on a properly posh [...]

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Gordon versus the Empire

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Bill Buford’s recent article on Gordon Ramsay’s slog in the U.S. (”The Taming of the Chef: Can Gordon Ramsay make it here?” April, 3, 2007 ) has me thinking again about the sins and virtues of the Ramsay Holdings pub venture, and the exhausting drive my darling head chef is taking into my homeland.
I discussed [...]

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Anyone Seen Ben’s Thai???

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Despite the fact that Ben’s Thai in the Warrington closed JANUARY 31, and Ramsay Holdings have owned all of the Warrington Hotel since October 31, 2006, many guests are still caught unawares, wandering up the stairs of the saloon bar for that reliable local Thai in Maida Vale.
If you are one of the many who [...]

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In Love with the Warrington

Monday, February 26, 2007

It’s a good time to be sentimental about the Warrington. After all, the bar staff hasn’t changed much. The regulars like Bill and Tony and Stan are still propping up their ends of the bar. It’s smoky and that one ceiling fan always looks like it is ready to fly off and shoot across the [...]

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Warrington Days

Friday, January 26, 2007

It’s been three months since Gordon Ramsay Holdings took over the Warrington Hotel and everyone still seems to be on pins and needles about the changeover.
Last night was packed to the gills with regulars, neighbors and new friends, everyone trying to catch hold of a piece of what they fear might be lost as restorations/renovations [...]

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Why Gordon Ramsay Buying the Warrington is Good… And Bad

Tuesday, December 5, 2006

I work behind the bar at the Warrington. So, theoretically, I should be able to answer questions about the future our beloved Maida Vale pub.
We do get such strange people that come in.
“Um hello. Is the Gordon Ramsay restaurant open yet?”
Both Miriama and I are standing there when the woman asks. Miriama takes a deep [...]

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The Warrington-Ramsay Waltz

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Or… Living the Limbo Loco in W9
I still work at The Warrington Hotel, a couple days a week. So naturally friends and neighbours and locals ask, confidingly, what my new boss, Gordon Ramsay is up to.
Life is conjecture, really. Most of it. After John Brandon stood up at his leaving drinks that October night and [...]

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Gordon Ramsay Eats the Warrington

Monday, November 6, 2006

…or The Emperor’s New PubBonfire weekend has fizzled out with word that our new man about the Vale, Gordon Ramsay, was skulking about the bar Saturday evening.
Apparently, he’s been getting an earful from the locals, who despite being British, aren’t too shy to tug sweet ol’ Gordo by the ear and fill his canals with [...]

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How to be a Proper Pubman

Friday, October 27, 2006

This is John. For 25 odd years, John has been doing just what you see here… serving pints at the Warrington Hotel.
It isn’t an easy thing, to be a landlord. Sure, on the surface, it seems like a cakewalk. Hire a few Aussies, order barrels of bitter, decide between black or yellow shirts, and work [...]

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Crikey! Cricket!

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Just when I thought it MIGHT be safe to go to work at the pub again.
Nawp. Sure every other pub in town is sighing with relief at the death of England in the World Cup, but not in this neighborhood. Things are just getting HOT here, and when I say HOT, we aren’t joking.
I took [...]

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