This dish is pretty special. It uses pork tenderloin which is one of the most tender and low fat parts of the pig and happens to be remarkably good value.The flavours of brandy, mushroom, tarragon and asparagus work exceptionally well with the pork. It makes for a grand centrepiece on any dining table but is surprisingly simple to put together.
London Bridge Hotel
The London Bridge hotel is at the foot of the Shard. Paul Ruel looks it up and stays the night
Experimental Food Society Spectacular 2012
The culinary industry as you have never seen it before. A culinary arts event in its third year, the Experimental Food Society Spectacular 2012 comprises of three parts, a two-day exhibition, followed by a’British Icon’ themed banquet and talk.
Good to the bone. Bone Daddies
In the middle of Soho is a spot perhaps soon to be the biggest food draw in town, but right now it’s a building site. Nick Harman sticks his head in the door of Bone Daddies.
Capital Spice- Chrissie Walker
Every so often a book comes along that you wish you’d penned yourself. Not only that, it IS the book you’d have penned yourself. Most of the time it’s authored by someone you have no qualms resenting for their sheer audacity at nicking the concept, but Capital Spice’s creator, Chrissie Walker, is just too damn lovely for me to hold any grudge.
Delhi Regional Menu at Salaam Namaste
It’s been almost a year since I visited the chaotic, crazy, captivating Indian capital and I’m feeling nostalgic. Especially since the Grande Dame of Indian home cooking, Madhur Jaffrey, has just made a rare London appearance at the South Indian Literary Festival, and I wasn’t there to see her. Madhur’s autobiography,’Climbing The Mango Tree??’ is full of delectable Delhi reminiscences- home-style chicken stews, the most artisan of breads, and the snack-y treats so beloved of the diverse people of the city that never stops.
License To Swill
Bond fans the world over have found themselves trying to keep up with him ever since ordering vodka martinis as pre film drinks to get in the mood each time a new Bond feature is released. This year Barz8 Events is offering them the chance to learn to load heir own.
Seasons Eatings from Maison Blanc
Maison Blanc’s head pâtissier, Alex Gresset talks and tastes us through the upcoming Halloween and Christmas ranges of Maison Blanc patisserie. David Bullock is very impressed, and now a little fatter.
Monsoon Valley Wines
Despite the geographical improbability of the location, The Siam Winery has been seriously involved in growing vines and making a series of domestic cuvées in Thailand for some time.
School of Wok’s Sunday Feasts Supperclub Series: Darjeeling Express
Elbow room? Yes, that’s lacking. But what I’m more concerned about is just where my growing gut is going to expand to. 40 hungry diners squished into the diminutive School of Wok is all well and good, but none of us accounted for the fact Asma Khan was planning to stuff us to the very gunwales with her British-Raj themed, multi-course Indian feast.