"In America, steak is always some muscular animal of the plains. It may be hearty, heavy, manly and bloody, but it is never fancy or foreign"
Karen Krizanovich thinks that critics are missing the point at Mayfair's Quattro Passi
It's as much a city landmark as the nearby Duke of Wellington statue with a traffic cone on its head – Karen Krizanovich digs into the legend of the art deco dining room Rogano, in Glasgow
Corbin & King's new Austrian eatery in Marylebone
Civilian Editor-at-large Karen Krizanovich goes to dinner and doesn't eat
"They filmed in the market and they were charged thousands of Euros because the shops said they’d lose business on the first day of the week. The market is never open on Monday anyway, so pffft."
Two years ago, it was an insider's drink, or something you just had on holiday. Now it's all over the shop. Karen Krizanovich gets the Venetian spirit and becomes seduced by the Aperol spritz
"What you eat marks out your status as clearly as your festival pass." Karen Krizanovich dines her way around the Cannes Film Festival 2013
"My mother’d retch at the quite popular scent Youth Dew, saying it smelled like formaldehyde. She’d wear scent carelessly, hardly at all. In contrast to her, I wanted to leave a heavy trail of 'I’m here!'"
"Nothing says 'I’m in Africa' like being served a brightly coloured juice drink made from pine nuts and a hermetically-sealed smoked sausage as you fly over the Kalahari, trying not to notice the spelling errors on the airplane engines"
