Last week, I received this great little book from Quadrille Books to review and tried out the Rack and braised shoulder of lamb ras el hanout and served it with the warm couscous salad. Maze is one of the Gordon Ramsay’s empire of restaurants in London and Jason Atherton was the head chef, who has…
Here are the recipes for some of the delights we sampled at the Birra Moretti event the other day created by the 2 Michelin star chef, Massimo Bottura VEAL CHEEKS in lager, balsamic vinegar and chlorophyll The cheeks 4 veal cheeks 100 g of celery carrot and onion 2 litres of Birra Moretti La Rossa,…
I was invited to this lunch which was in conjunction with Identità London, the two day Italian food festival on 7th & 8th June, sponsored by Birra Morretti. It was an exclusive beer and food tasting lunchtime event with world renowned Two-Star Michelin Chef, Massimo Bottura. It was fascinating to watch how Massimo introduced the…
I had heard some rumblings about this new Japanese noodle shop in Soho and one lunchtime, decided to check it out. They had only been open for 2 weeks and was not very busy when we got there. (Since my visit, it has been featured in the Metro and lots of other food blogs and…
On a busy Thursday, was rushing for a meeting in the City, dropped in for lunch at the new Tsurusushi. It was a bit of time to find it as it was not obvious where it was and actually found it at the back of the 301 Bishopgate building. The place even has tables outside…
Henry from Leon (@henry_leon) hosted a dinner party at their Ludgate Circus Branch the other evening. From talking to the other guests, most of us didn’t even know that Leon was open for dinner. The Ludgate Circus branch use to be my local lunch takeaway place when I worked up the road in Fleet Street…
Also at the Natural and Organic Products Show, Dale Pinnock was demonstrating a couple of dishes from his DVD. The first was a tasty Thai inspired Red lentil soup and the other was called an Anti Inflammatory Curry, which was basically a sweet potato curry. The soup was delicious but I thought the curry was…
I found some interesting vendors at the Natural Products and Organic Show in Olympia yesterday. Here are some of them. It was a bit too busy and didn’t manage to take too many pictures. This is a a new product from Italy called Natquid It is basically flavoured olive oils which you would then drizzle…
Just did a whirlwind tour to Washington DC for a conference and did a whistlestop tour of the Smithsonian Museum. I just had to see Julia Child’s Kitchen, which was shown at the end of the recent film Julie and Julia. It was exactly as she had it and what I was really impressed with…