‘What are you looking at?’ enquires the boyfriend, innocently enough. And, like a woman from the telly ad for cheap hotel stays, I slam the laptop lid firmly shut and trill brightly,’Nothing, darling!’ But his knowingly raised eyebrows tell me he’s got my number: covert food porn addict with long list of repeat offenses.’Honest.’ I insist.’It’s Pukka’.
Restaurant Review- Cinnamon Culture in Bromley
Light, airy, elegant… Not words you commonly associate with an Indian restaurant. Rarely fitting epithets for the way you feel post-curry, either. But then, Manpreet Dhingra and Jiwan Laal aimed to open a venue anything but common and, with Cinnamon Culture, the duo are right on the money.
Back in 5 Minutes, a restaurant and private dining room
Back in 5 Minutes, a restaurant and private dining room hidden at the back of a designer tailor’s, launched in June, bringing quintessentially British food to one of London’s last bastions of Bangladeshi cooking. Anita Pati disappears inside
Anjum Anand’s ‘The Spice Tailor’ range launches the ‘Spice Nights’ Campaign
This article must begin with an apology. A heartfelt sorry to Anjum Anand’s scampish daughter for crashing her family lunch and making a vast dent into her pile of fresh roti and keema peas. It’s almost as criminal as taking candy from a baby. But, in my defence, you just weren’t showing due appreciation for how deft your Mum is in the kitchen. Yet. But you will. Her flaky parathas and vibrant veggies will win you over.
Salt Sugar Smoke: The Definitive Guide to Conserving, from Jams and Jellies to Smoking and Curing. Diana Henry
We should preserve the art of preserving, it’s satisfying and it gives you tastes you just can’t get in the shops or get as good. I’m off to pickle some allotment tomatoes now and on Boxing Day I’ll crack the first one open to go with my cold turkey. The best things come to those who wait.
24 London restaurant
Vingt-Quatre on Fulham Road is London’s only 24 hour licenced restaurant David Bullock wanders in after a good lie in and sees if the vibe is 24/7. And is the chef asleep?
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
Brancott Invivio Campo Viejo
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.
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.