Far from being a backwater, but a part of Europe unjustly ignored, Flanders has a lot going for it, not least how near it is to the UK and the fact that the locals speak French not the impossibly tongue twisting Flemish.
Great Scot Awards at Boisdale of Canary Wharf London
Boisdale of Canary Wharf, Cabot Place West, Canary Wharf London E14 4QT www.boisdale.co.uk With a […]
The Henry Root
Right wing nutcase? A legend in wet fish? A lifelong fan of Thatcher? Henry Root was all of these and now he’s a gastropub too. Anita Pati goes to see what the old man is cooking up in Chelsea.
The Bavarian Beerhouse Tower Hill
Many people are not too sure what to expect when they are met with the words ‘Bavarian’ and ‘Beerhouse’. Is it a pub, which serves Pretzels? Or is it Bratwurst’s galore and a pitcher of beer? Priyanka Kara makes a visit to the new Bavarian Beerhouse opened at Tower Hill to find out!
McGuigan Wines launch The Shortlist
‘You’ve been shortlisted’, it read, and actually I knew that I had been, I’d been keeping a date free in my diary for months. This was my invitation to The Roof Gardens in Kensington for a formal(ish) four course dinner to celebrate the UK launch of the McGuigan range of award winning wines, The Shortlist.
Red Stag launches in the UK, a great cocktail ingredient.
I knew it was going to be dangerous soon after I arrived there, having rocked up at L’Atelier des Chefs for an event that was part of the launch of Red Stag. I was immediately brought a cocktail, which had been predetermined by my answer to a multiple choice question when responding to the invitation. My Claremont Julep went down very easily, a little too quickly and it confirmed that the evening was likely to be a slippery slope.
dinner at benares pop up at meza with Atul Kochhar
If the grazing menu at Benares is beyond the reach of your wallet, popping into the pop up at Meza is a fabulous way of experiencing Atul Kochhar’s sparkling skills without breaking through the overdraft limit. Joanna Biddolph worked hard to do it justice on your behalf. You’ve got until Saturday 28th May to see if you can eat as much as she did.
King Prawn
Mark Hix and frozen seafood are not words you would necessarily associate. I still have trouble now. But here he is, in the smart and sexy underground bar below his Soho haunt, dressing that most prawny of dishes, prawn cocktail, for Birds Eye’s emperor king prawn launch.
Café East
More like a canteen than a café, even today there are more tables full than empty, quite a feat when you consider it’s a Friday afternoon and, as I may have mentioned already, we’re in the middle of a leisure park. The dining room is bright, clean and ever so slightly clinical and runs a ticket system when it’s even busier.
Black Gold, Shimmering Sky
Douglas Blyde heads to Islay, island of eight distilleries and one golf course. There he discovers his disinterest in golf is not a handicap.