Just a short hop from Camden High Street, in Delancey Street, this new Osteria and Restaurant launched on the 2nd December to the sounds of lively band music while invited guests quaffed wines or beers and nibbled on interesting canapés. It was a fun evening that did justice to this new eatery, which occupies the site of the old Cafe Delancey.
The Covent Garden Market Place, Grocer, Deli, Cafe
The Covent Garden Market Place, Grocer, Deli, Cafe is so new I can still smell wood shavings from the fit out and polenta is definitely for sale, along with a whole host of foody things you lust after, while not always entirely sure what they are or what they do
Retro Revival! Findus Crispy Pancakes Go Gourmet!
Findus have announced plans to extend their existing range of crispy pancakes to include some fantastic new flavours such as, Moroccan Lamb Tagine, Lobster Thermidor and Roasted Butternut Squash with Goat’s Cheese.
The whisky the angels drink
Manager’s Choice is Diageo’s first complete collection of single-cast Scotch whiskies. Aimed at collectors and connoisseurs it’s been chosen over time, and by the expert managers, to represent each of the 27 distilleries authentic whisky signatures. Unique and delicious they make the perfect present for the man who has everything and a special date coming up.
Just One Pot -Great food, less fuss
One pot meals? Hmm that’s going to mean a load of old casseroles isn’t it? Those sludgy brown meals that always have at least one carrot bobbing about like a torpedoed Noel Coward going down in the North Atlantic. Well actually, no. Just One Pot has pushed the definition.
Nudo, a Christmas gift idea?
Looking for a gift for someone who is into food and cooking? Stuck for a gift that’s a little different? This Christmas, you could treat that someone special to a little piece of the Italian countryside, by adopting an olive tree with Italian olive oil producers Nudo.
Le Colombier Restaurant London
It’s not often I enter a restaurant and immediately lower the average age of the clientele by about thirty years. All around us glided silver haired, straight- backed gentlemen of ex-Brigadier appearance, accompanied by their good lady wives decked in the family jewellery. It was rather like entering one of the last books of A Dance To The Music of Time. Mark Members over there, Sir Magnus Donners at the door and to the side, balefully watching the throng, Widmerpool himself.
The spirit of South London. Drinking in the Beefeater Distillery
The iconic London gin is the only one to be actually still made in London, and Beefeater is the favoured gin of the new, hip, mixologists. Not bad for a spirit once the subject of 18th century vilification. At the Beefeater Distillery in South London, we meet Master Distiller Desmond Payne and he takes us through the process and into the bar!
Your pizza, your way at Ponti’s Italian Kitchen, it’s a DIY delight
What can you get for fifteen pounds in London Town? Half a ticket to the back row of a West End show? One and a quarter cocktails in a chi-chi Soho bar? Well how about dinner, a drink, dessert and ready-made date banter? Thomas Henry throws up his pizza.
Challah Bread
My wonderful friend in New York, Carrie (no, not the one from Sex and The City) very kindly shared this fantastic recipe with me and the results were so good, I just had to share it with you.