Bread making has always seemed like this complicated and time consuming endeavour that I have not spent much time baking my own bread. I have tried making bread with some supermarket mixes with mixed results and once during a gluten free health period, I made a truly inedible loaf out of rice flour. All that…
One of the most underused transport mode in London is the waterbus better known as the Thames Clipper. There aren’t enough stops and the tickets are more expensive than the tube. Recently, they have extended the Oyster card usage to include the water bus routes and I am sure this will increase the traffic. We…
Royal Wedding Fever is taking hold. Tate and Lyle is hosting Let Them Eat Cake Exhibition of Royal Wedding Cakes this weekend at the Wellington Arch. It showcases some beautiful cake designs by professionals and winners of their Facebook compeition. This cake was had very intricate work done in royal icing and inserted…
I remember when I first encountered granola in a hotel in America. Everyone seemed to be eating theirs with yoghurt and when I had some, I was totally unconvinced. It really was glorified bird seed, with little flavour and really hard work to chew. As it was a breakfast meeting, it was not polite to…
If you drink bottled water, you need to watch this. I have to admit that I do regularly buy bottles of water when I am out and about and never think twice about it. I have friends who only drink the ridiculously expensive, air flown from around the world, Fiji Water and they have a…
A while ago, there was a lot of chatter on twitter about a great place to have Spaghetti a la Bottarga. A few days later, I had to meet friends at the Antiques Fair in Duke of York Square and we decided to give this place a go. 11 Park Walk opened where Aubergine used…
Pierre Koffman of Tante Clare fame has reopened a restaurant in London at the Berkeley Hotel in Knightsbridge. It has taken over the old Boxwood cafe and they have made quite a transformation, it looks more formal but brighter, whereas Boxwood seemed very dimly lit. I was invited for lunch here a while ago and…
It amuses me to watch how restaurants market themselves and how they use social media as a tool to generate pr and business. Recently, Cafe Luc in Marylebone ran a much hyped £1 promotion, which on the surface seemed as if you could get a meal for £1. This hype reverberated around the net like…
If you have been following the new season of Masterchef, Yotam Ottolenghi was featured in a recent episode where the contestants had to cook from his vegetarian recipes. I have listed the recipes below here. Sometimes Ottolenghi recipes are a bit complicated and uses a lot of ingredients, the end results is always superb. These…