Marina this has been a rollercoaster

Oh, right

Pal just told me this and I couldn't believe it. But...

www.ft.com/content/d29a... Man, there IS some sanity!

Love travelling but bloody hell hate the actual travel

Hokum is a blast and Damian McCarthy is a horror legend

.@marinaoloughlin.bsky.social's inner cynic says, no mystery. Hospitality is struggling, pizza is cheap to make, with high margins and fast table-turnover. Not to mention the appeal of cheese-pull social media posts. But her non-cynical side thinks there's more to it ft.trib.al/9Ui2zwZ

I love pizza you love pizza why do we all love pizza? giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Of course!

'I started with a frisée salad made with good lettuce, but instead of lardons, they’d added thin slivers of warm bacon fat, as if a moisturising leper had done jazz hands over the bowl.' Researching, found this line. Guess who? (I mean, it could only be the one guy...)

No words

Apart from anything else, what a spectacularly ugly hotel

Despite frequent trips to Sicily, I've never been to Palermo! (4+ hour drive from 'my' bit of the island. Hot tips vv gratefully received 🙏

There was a TV show about it! Urban Chef, Oliver Rowe youtu.be/2_yNPT5nMXg?...

Yes!! I've just looked it up. Decor was by the chef's brother in law: Thomas Heatherwick

Mind has gone blank - help me out. A pub/restaurant in Kings Cross Road that looked like Hellraiser's pulling pad, painted black, chains and hooks dripping from the ceiling. Think the chef whoever he was went on to be something of a name. Any ideas?

Yes, I went to the US. No regrets www.ft.com/content/6e5f...

Well, this all seems to be going fabulously, doesn't it?

women have a bit of work: 'vanity' men have a bit of work: 'LOOKSMAXXING'

In which I stagger happily around the bacari of Treviso and go, Venice, who? (Well, temporarily at least.) Enormous fun in a beautiful city, feat. some absolute beauties. Cin bloody cin 🥂🥂🥂 www.ft.com/content/08ab...

Went out for dinner with pals and didn't talk about... all that... once

I mean, whyyy??

Have just read this extraordinary sentence in New York Magazine !!! 'A ghostwriter who had a “slow year” made $164,768, most of which ($107,768) was from ghostwriting famous people’s Substacks.'

The American obsession with sweetness: asked for a skinny flat white and got something reeking with vanilla and toxic with sweetener. On remonstrating: 'oh - that's how we always do skinny'

I'm aware there are many more important things our US pals are up to right now, but dear god they need to get over their plug-in air 'freshener' addiction 🤢

If your choice of motor is a camouflage Cybertruck, I'm judging you pretty hard (Only in LA...)

I went to the 'legendary' Dan Tanas last night in my ongoing pursuit of old L.A. It is a hilariously bad restaurant and wildly expensive. But did I love it? I'm afraid so

I'm in LA near a supermarket called Smart and Final. Eh?

Omggggg I've just this minute HEARD!!!!

There is some appalling umbrella etiquette going down grr

Should restaurant critics be critical? You'll never guess what I think...* *pls apply suitably sarky to giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Happy to be part of greatest team on whole planet 🔥

Meanwhile, Michelle Mone

Thunderbolts? You may have unwittingly upgraded to the Gods of Olympus Meet and Greet option.

Many joys of tsipouro...

Way to look at the poetic upside!

You're looking at the poltroon who bought €60 worth of Acropolis tickets for a slot during THE most apocalyptic storm. Soaked to the marrow, deafened by thunderbolts, no refunds

Off to Athens. Think I'm pretty sorted for restaurants/bars, but anything cultural, off-beat or quirky you might recommend? Thank you!

well this seems a novel restaurant - dispatch from @marinaoloughlin.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/6ce3...

...and he surprised me in many more ways than just his outfit!

This piece on travelling off-off-season took an unexpectedly dark turn for me. Feat. riots in Bangkok and a post-apocolyptic Venezia... @ftweekend.com giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... (Limited gift link, I think)

my #TheTraitors thoughts: my mother-in-law was Welsh so I know the dark powers of a Welsh woman of a certain age. And I WANT Jade's jumper

Leave Mon Plaisir ALONE! londontheinside.com/one-of-londo...

www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2... I always hoped I'd have a drink with her one of these days. Alas...

Re-watched When Harry Met Sally for the first time in probably decades More than holds up. Hugest re-rec

Stuffing went yesterday. Already mourning it

Devastated I missed the annual NY local sea plunge. Devastated, I tell you

I'm in bed

Don't blame you!

Had a truffled Baron Bigod last night from Neals Yard that was the very definition of outrageous pleasure. Woke up still thinking about it