Summary
IN A WAY, I don't want you to read this review. Because once you have, you'll know about The Goring Hotel, and a little bit of the lovely, intimate secrecy about the place will be gone. Perhaps secrecy is the wrong word; discretion might be better, a proper indication of how wonderfully understated it is.
Start with the location. I've worked about a mile away from it for more than six years, and eaten a great many professional political lunches in Westminster and Victoria in that time. So I thought I knew the patch fairly well. But in all my lunching with ministers, diplomats and other ne'er-do-wells, I'd never come across The Goring and its first-class restaurant.See the full content of this document
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Secret Society
In part, that just shows I'm not as clever as I think I am. But it also tells you quite a lot about this establishment: elegant, low- key to the point of self-effacing and, at the risk of coming across as a bit of a chippy Marxist, r...
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