Acre Lane has changed since my time. The houses around no longer boast the 70s front doors so often fitted in that flared and flawed decade, instead Victorian doors, white plantation shutters and other classic signs of gentrification indicate that the local demographic is not what it was.Boqueria is another indication.
Holi menu at Dishoom
‘Hooray, hooray, it’s a Holi, holiday!’… For the uninitiated, Holi is one of India’s maddest, most colourful festivals- a chance for mad March hares to fling brightly coloured powders at one another, eat copiously and brilliantly, and in general, just have a rum old time. And ‘Bombay cafe’ Dishoom is celebrating in style.
Cow Pie Recipe by Jesse Dunford Wood at The Mall Tavern
Famous at the Mall Tavern since 2010 this meal has been a best seller come rain or shine. Cow Pie is a man of a meal, and keeps both the foodies, and local drinkers happy here at the pub.
Hyatt Regency London Tapas and very tasty Riojas at the Chef’s Table
The menu pairs the ‘La Rioja” region wines of Bodegas LAN, from the flagship Vina Lanciano Reserva to the recent high-end Lan Edicion Limitada, Bodegas LAN using its blended oak barrels technique – mixed wood barrels with staves of American oak and heads of French oak – with a five-course family-style variety of traditional Spanish tapas and main dishes.
A Cook’s Kitchen in Leominster
If you go down to the most rural backwater of Herefordshire today, you’ll probably be surprised by A Cook’s Kitchen. Situated in the enormous barn at Dunkerton’s Cider Mill and down the most crooked of country lanes is the manifest dream of a young couple, Bonnie and Tom.
Simply Good Pasta by Peter Sidwell
The book is set out by seasons, which is always helpful and encourages the reader to use what’s in the shops and cheap. A dish of Spring cabbage and pancetta is simplicity itself and you know it can’t go wrong. His idea of using up spare cooked pasta in a frittata is an odd one, but probably worth a try, while baby spinach, pasta and smoked salmon is nought to plate in about ten minutes.
Restaurant review: Goan Regional menu at Namaaste Kitchen
The regional menus at Namaaste Kitchen and Salaam Namaste March on to Goa this month- and Zoe Perrett gets all fired up about the tiny state’s utterly searing sensations.
Marston’s introduces single hop ales
Marston’s are celebrating 2012 by producing 12 single hop ales – that is, ales all produced in the same way to the same 4% ABV but using a different hop.
JUS-ROLâ„¢ Bake it Fresh
Jamie Oliver makes it all look so easy doesn’t he? Well I’ve tried and it’s not. Bread making is all about effort and time and I have neither of those two things. But I do want steaming dinner rolls bought fresh from the oven to my dinner table.
Cookbook Cafe launches the’50 Mile Menu’
Cookbook Cafe at the InterContinental London Park Lane is introducing a ’50 Mile Menu’ celebrating the finest, seasonal and sustainable British ingredients which can be sourced within a 50 mile radius of the hotel.