Eating Out

Five go mad for fish and chips

Lisa Hilton enjoys a seaside hike, a bracing swim and lashings of warming tea in West Sussex

American nightmare

Lisa Hilton reluctantly samples a Five Guys burger in Milan and regrets it

Taste of the high country

Lisa Hilton savours sublime cookery packed with the flavours of Slovenia’s Julian Alps

Creature of comfort food

Lisa Hilton dreams of Mayfair and the true luxury of a silky, delicate fish pie

Requiem for a bad meal

Lisa Hilton mourns the pleasure of good company – even in a cynically awful faux Italian in Berlin

A bountiful Baja garden

Lisa Hilton enjoys sublime food and hibiscus margaritas on an enchanting Mexican ranch

Amuse Bouche

Lisa Hilton finds a French-inspired retreat for flagging flâneurs in Shepherd’s Bush

A full stop in Sussex

Lisa Hilton is influenced by a Booker Prize shortlisted novel as she samples gastropub grub

Not drinking but drowning

Lisa Hilton sees Venice disappear beneath the flood waters again and fears for the future

High old time

Lisa Hilton finds Jason Atherton’s City eyrie flirty, sexy and a little bit louche