With a few days of fine weather forecast, it’s absolutely imperative to roll out the barbeque one final time this year and use up the last of your briquettes before they end up sitting dolefully in your garage for the next nine months.
Spianata & Co
The bread is Roman, which is to say a Rome speciality and not something dug up by Baldrick on Time Team. Pizza Bianca Romana is baked in two metre long, 30 cm wide slices and cut horizontally for filling. The outside is golden and crunchy and the fillings we found to be a mix of good tradition with innovation
Jamie Oliver’s Big Feastival
At other festivals you’ve either got good food or good music, but at Jamie Oliver’s Big Feastival, punters don’t have to sacrifice one for the other. You can wander around the food stalls while waiting for the next act to appear on stage.
Chabrot London Restaurant
Here’s a fact, if you want to find the kind of French restaurant that glovely fits the cliché of what a French restaurant should be – inexpensive, unpretentious, a little bit quirky and serving delicious food – you’re better off not going to France.
Heston Blumenthal’s Hinds Head pub celebrates Britain’s rich gastronomic history
Heston Blumenthals award-winning pub, the Hinds Head in Bray, is celebrating its rich 600-year history as a pub with a special Hinds Head Through the Ages dinner on 17 September.Head Chef Kevin Love has created a 4-course tasting menu taking a gastronomic journey dating as far back as the 15th century
Cauliflower and Asparagus Soup with Roasted Asparagus
“This is the nicest thing you have ever cooked!†my girlfriend stated when I presented her with this. I was a bit gutted that a humble soup was deemed my greatest creation…. but one spoonful of this silky and luxurious soup and I had to agree, it was up there.
Edible Experiences launch Sunday Feasts at School of Wok
‘The Egg!’ I hiss triumphantly to my companion, tripping all over myself to get to said item. Seconds later, I’m sinking my teeth into a half-ovoid of sheer gustatory pleasure- all gooey sunset yolk, firm soy-poached white and the salty spike of fish roe. Simple. Stunning. Simply stunning…’Leave off you greedy munter,’ says the mate,’There’ll be none left for anyone else.’
Antico restaurant London
Antico is not going to get the food twitchers excited, but as a reliable, affordable place for a decent lunch or dinner it’s got the balance and the attitude right.
Simply red-La Tomatina at Tapas Revolution
Madrid-style tapas bar, Tapas Revolution, will be celebrating the popular Spanish festival, La Tomatina in its Westfield London and Bluewater branches by creating an entire tomato menu until 2nd September.
Pappardelle don’t preach
I could be in trouble deep. That high street purveyor of middle class Italian nosh, Carluccio’s, is coming to a Sainsbury’s near you with a range of ready meals that knocks the competition into a cocked hat and I for one have had my head turned.