Maud’s ‘Frenchness’ adheres to the true Chocolat stereotype – pristine bob, chic wraparound dress and impressively slim in an effortless European way, despite an unholy appetite for cheese and champagne. Years ago she worked for La Semaine du goût (a week where the French strive to eat even more wonderful things than usual), before moving [...]
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Champagne + Fromage
Posted in Reviews on September 18, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The Jugged Hare on Chiswell Street
Posted in Maincourses, Reviews, Savoury snacks, tagged bar, Barbican, charcoal grill, Chiswell Street, City Bar, EC1, entertaining clients, ETM, ETM Group, menu, restaurant, rotisserie, stag head, taxidermy, The Jugged Hare, Tom Ed Martin, wine by the glass on March 9, 2012 | 2 Comments »
“It’s like they’ve taken all the best parts of all the best restaurants and melded them into one ‘super pub’” Tom concluded as we left The Jugged Hare lastnight. Now, my boyfriend is a marketer’s dream—and a natural enthusiast about, well pretty much everything. But on this occasion, he wasn’t far off the mark. As [...]
Ceviche: South American in Soho
Posted in Light Lunch, Maincourses, Reviews, Savoury snacks, tagged 17 Frith Street, acidity, alfajores, Argentinian, bar, book, central London restaurant, ceviche, ceviche menu, ceviche menu soho, chilli, corn cake, date, Firth Street, half-Peruvian half-English, lúcuma, lime, low fat, lucuma ice cream, Martin Morales, menu, octopus, Peruvian, pisco, pisco bar, raw, reservation, restaurant, review, Ronnie Scotts, salmon, seabass, soho, Soho bar, South American, tangy, tiger's milk on March 8, 2012 | 6 Comments »
Just as the fashion industry decided that tribal prints were coming back in many, many seasons ago, so the movers-and-shakers in the food world predicted, mid-2011, that South American cuisine was going to be big in summer 2012. And sure enough, with the first sniff of spring, half-Peruvian and half-English restaurateur Martin Morales has launched [...]
My three favourite places to drink cocktails in London
Posted in Reviews, tagged Any Human Heart, bar, Bar Nightjar, City Road, clerkenwell, clover club, cocktail history, cocktail lounge, cocktails, cut crystal glass, daiquiri, decor, Edmund, food blogs, Goring Royal Suite, Great Aunt Wilhelmina, live music, Mayor of Scardey Cat Town, menu, modern speakeasy, Nightjar, pros and cons of food blogs, review, Rosie, Russell Sage, secret, speakeasy, Spitalfields, taxidermy, The Breakfast Club, The Mayor of Scardeycat Town, The Zetter Townhouse, Tony Conigliaro, underground, William Boyd, Zetter Townhouse on February 14, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Apologies for the abject grumpiness in my last post. I had a temporary fall out with the very concept of food blogs after visiting the jam-packed and ultra-trendy Pitt Cue Co. It would’ve been amazing if it were a one-off, special find. But the overwhelming experience was one of queuing and overcrowding (two things I [...]
Pitt Cue Co.
Posted in Reviews, tagged burger, burger van, Carnaby, Carnaby Street, cider sour, cocktails, cool, cult, food, London, menu, Newburgh, Pitt Cue, Pitt Cue Co, pop up, popular, pulled pork, queue, review, soho, sticky toffee pudding on February 8, 2012 | 6 Comments »
It’s five minutes to six on a bitterly cold February evening and I’m waiting outside a bar near Carnaby Street. There are about eight people in the queue, rubbing their hands, stomping their feet and puffing cold air. The door opens and somebody sneaks out. “Are you open yet?” shouts a bald man wearing a [...]
Renaissance Pubs: Posh pub crawl round Clapham
Posted in Reviews, tagged wine, restaurant, history, review, food, design, bar, Renaissance Pubs, Clapham, Battersea, The Abberville, The Avalon, The Bolingbroke, The Rosendale, The Tommyfield, The Stonhouse, Avalon, Tom Peake, Mark Reynolds, Nick Fox, gastropub, first, The Eagle, south London, churro, churros with caramel and ice cream, chain, awards, real ale, ale, The Abbeville on February 7, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Dear readers, I apologise that it has taken me since Burns Night to construct a post – but I’m afraid that I’ve been busy indulging in my second-favourite pastime (second to this blog, of course): coming up with some devastatingly cunning business plans. I figured that if I come up with enough ideas, then one [...]
The Drift: Flambé Menu
Posted in Maincourses, Reviews, tagged 1980, 1980s, apres ski, bar, beef stroganoff, blood orange blazer, City Bar, cocktails, crepe suzette, Drake & Morgan, Drake and Morgan, eating, flambe, flambee menu, flaming your tai, Heron, Heron Tower, ladies, Margaret Thatcher, pussy bow blouse, review, scampi mornay, steak diane, tea trolley, The Anthologies, the city, The Drift, The Folly, the starry scamp, trolley, women on January 18, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Lots of my friends work in The City. This is a annoying for a variety of reasons. It’s annoying because I now know far more about insurance and reinsurance than I ever wanted to. It’s annoying because they get to go on corporate ski trips and I don’t. But most of all, it’s annoying because [...]
Gourmet San
Posted in Maincourses, Reviews, tagged BBQ rabbit, Bethnal Green, bizarre, chicken, Chinese, extraordinary, Gourment San, Gourmet San, jellyfish, menu, noodles, ox tripe, pork lungs, rabbit, sea bass, Shoreditch, squid, unusual, weird menu on January 16, 2012 | 6 Comments »
I love Bethnal Green. I think that it’s one of the best places in the world and that any Londoner who lives elsewhere is a moron. For nearly two years I’ve been on a one-woman campaign to try and persuade anyone who doesn’t live there to move immediately. So far my conversion rate is nil. [...]
St Andrew’s day at Bonnie and Wild
Posted in Maincourses, Reviews, tagged 30 November, bagpipes, battered mars bar, Bonnie and Wild, Buckfast, celebrations, cullen skink, deep-fried mars bar, haggis, Iain Sim, Irn Bru, neeps and tatties, piper, Scotland, Scottish, St Andrew's Day, St Andrews, toasted tattie scone, venison on December 1, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday was St Andrew’s Day—and if that isn’t a reason to deep fry mars bars, use Irn Bru as a feasible cooking ingredient and persuade a piper to come blow his pipes in a requisitioned eel and pie shop, then I don’t know what is. With that in mind, I shotgunned a shift at Bonnie [...]
MEATliquor
Posted in Reviews, tagged Barker, Brawn, burger, cocktails, Corner Room, design, diner, graffiti, Hawksmoor, I Love Dust, interior, interior design, mark hix, meat liqor, Meat Liquor, Meat Liquor menu, Meat Wagon, MEATliquor, Meatliquor menu, menu, Nuno Mendez, Oxford Street, restaurant, review, Rollo Gabb, Russell Norman, soho, Soif, Terroirs, the long table, Viajante, Wilson, wine, Yianni Papoutsis on November 30, 2011 | 9 Comments »
As the (last) recession crept up, pubs and restaurants got a lot of airtime. And not for a good reason. Back in 2009, 52 pubs were closing each week and there was just a 20% chance that a restaurant would survive its first two years. Scrimping and saving was having a knock-on effect, and the [...]
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