The IFE show at the Excel in London is a massive Food and Drink Trade Show. It’s a good place to spot new food producers, food trends and to meet fellow foodies. This a a brief summary of the producers that I thought were interesting and things that you must see at the show. Joloffe…
One lunchtime I found myself around Waterloo and needed a quick bite and remembered this Mexican stall that @MarinaMetro recommended in the Evening Standard. It is just on one of the back streets behind the station and there was a short queue of people. This Mexican Street Food stall is run by Arturo Rodriguez and…
Casa Malevo is a new Argentinian restaurant in the newly coined area of London, Connaught Village. Since the Blairs moved around the corner to Connaught Square, this are has been trying to reinvent itself into something other than Little Beirut. This new Argentinian restaurant is a new venture by Alerberto Abbate, of Santa Maria del…
This is the restaurant that triggered me to start a food blog. We went to Jai Yun on the edge of Chinatown in San Franciscoe as it was a bit of a cult in San Francisco. It is where all the chefs go to eat when they get off work. It is run by chef/owner…
I was watching Hugh’s Fish Fight and on it a couple of Greenpeace ladies went to Ghana to trace the origins of the tuna that they bought from Tesco. They followed code on the can to the fishery which ended with a fishing boat supplying that fishing boat. Two of the fisherman from that boat…
Away from Central London, there is less of a selection of good authentic restaurants. In areas like Putney, the high street and around is dominated by non descript chains with mediocre offerings. Along comes Valentina, a family run chain of Italian Delis and restaurants with three branches around London. The deli has a massive selection…
This was one of the recipes we cooked at the Masterchef Cookalong at the recent BBC Good Food Show. We made this recipe within the 30 minutes, except for the crackling as we didn’t have enough time for that. It is much simpler than I expected and the caramel is a deliciously fragrant invention, well…
The Good Food Show is a massive showcase of food and drink producers held in the massive hangar at the NEC in Birmingham. The Masterchef Challenge was added to the show recently as a crowd puller and a way to further promote the Masterchef brand. Miele, the sponsors of the Masterchef Challenge invited some bloggers…
I’ve never entered a cooking contest before and I unthinkingly agreed to participate in the Masterchef Challenge Invention Test at the BBC Good Food Show thinking it would be fun do a bit of cooking with the Masterchef guys in a fabulously well equipped Miele kitchen. I didn’t realise how ill prepared I was until …