The Graze at Vista concept is very clever. Watching the sun set while enjoying views across our stunning city, a sense of freedom from being six floors up in the open air, dramatic decor, a quirky menu, an inventive bar – and, in Joanna Biddolph’s view, worth every expensive penny.
Manju Malhi’s ‘Classic Indian Recipes’
Manju’s fifth book comes in a small, neat volume- rather like the author herself. As dependable as expected from such a down-to-earth voice, ‘Classic Indian Recipes’ is one to keep on the kitchen shelves, it’s enticing photographs destined to be embellished with stains and spatters.
Feng Sushi – Chef’s Table with Silla Bjerrum
Having braved the torrential rain showers and the flood of office workers streaming the other way into Canary Wharf station, I was very grateful to receive on arrival a warm green tea, followed by an equally warming champagne cocktail made with aged sake – a new and enjoyable variation of the old theme.
Raw Fair Preview with Isabelle Legeron MW.
Head down to the Truman Brewery this weekend or the Raw natural wine fair. Amongst others, Soho joint Ducksoup, Elliot’s Café and Hansen Lydersen are providing the fodder, and if that isn’t enough to persuade you, some people claim that the lack of additives in natural wine means less of a hangover!
Eggs easy – Mark Hix cooks Clarence Court eggs
Mark Hix cooks soft boiled Clarence Court bantam egg with creamed leeks and Arbroath smokies, Easy Over Clarence Court Goose Egg with Caper and Lemon Crust Mark and Fried Clarence Court Pheasant Egg with Sprouting Broccoli and Anchovies
Ribs are all the rage. The Rib Room tasting menu
Available for £85 per person from 14 May – 30 June, exclusively for tables of four or more with imaginatively meaty modern British classics, created by headchef Ian Rudge this is one to stretch the stomach and put meat on your bones.
Enoteca Dalla Terra -London
Enoteca Della Terra seems to have passed by the taste mongers of Twitter, perhaps it’s too grown up or even, in its rejection of finger food, old fashioned, yet it has the makings of a place I’d go to regularly for drinks and a tasty bite. Perhaps it’s rather secret location works against it, as does nearby Jamie’s Italian (Jamie’s Italian what?) hoovering up all the tourists. The wine bar maybe dead, but Della Terra suggests it’s not lying down.
kMix and biscuit baking with Miranda Gore Browne
Ok it was all about selling in the Kenwood kMix,their new rather cool looking stand mixer, but Sophie Morris found that getting a biscuit baking lesson from Miranda Gore Brown thrown into the mix, a protege of legendary Mary Berry, made the occasion a special one.
Dos Santos Foods- Unique Goan Speciality Items in the UK
Having held colonial status for nigh-on half a millenium, Goan cuisine is a melting pot in the truest sense of the word- indeed, so fiery it’s in danger of burning through the toughest cooking vessel. As Gregg Wallace might phrase it, ‘cooking doesn’t get hotter than this’.
Eat London 2 – Terence Conran and Peter Prescott
Conran and co-author Peter Prescott are fair about the chain restaurants when they see merit; they don’t go in for the knee-jerk rejection as less-experienced eaters tend to do. Credit is given where credit is due and nor do they bow to popular opinion, possibly because it’s unlikely either of them use Twitter that much and so can make their own minds up.