Hunan Pimlico, an epic meal
Hunan Pimlico is one of London’s best Chinese restaurants. A unique dining experience where there is no menu. You are served a never ending variety of dishes.
A spicy feast with Conscious Food
A recent warmish Wednesday evening somewhere in Clapham, Kristina from Conscious Food hosted a little dinner for a few bloggers to introduce their new range of food and spices. Conscious Food is an Indian Organic Food company and part of its range was brought to the UK by Kristina Locke. They make seriously healthy gluten…
Whale’s vomit and more at the History of Food
On a rainy summer’s evening, a derelict house in Belgrave square was transformed into a surreal time capsule that was called “The Complete History of Food”. Bompass and Parr, the Jellymongers, the hosts of this event had pulled together the talents of other creatives from the Courvoisier The Future 500. Expecting an total sensory extravagance,…
Cookbook Review of Maze by Jason Atherton
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…
Massimo Bottura Recipe for Veal Cheeks and Magnum of Foie Gras
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,…
Birra Moretti bring 2 star chef Massimo Bottura to London
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…
Koya Soho , Great udon in London
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…
Review of lunch at Tsurusushi Broadgate
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…
The Leon Dinner Party – Introducing the amazing Banana Split
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…