Land Securities offers workers at Thomas More Square an exclusive pop-up food market aimed at making this Thursday lunchtimes more exciting.
Bear decapitated in office
We washed ours down with tea, but of course the sommelier would recommend orange squash with added E numbers as the ideal pairing for the dish before running around the office breaking things and then throwing a tantrum and having to go to bed.
Trullo restaurant in London
Hurray, Trullo! Some nine months after it opened, I have finally been! Brushing past it on my way to Highbury & Islington tube, this esteemed neighbourhood restaurant, in my own neighbourhood, has been rammed happy every time I pass. It’s been impossible to book, I had to wait over a month for a two-hour window and that only at 7pm on a Monday evening but I pounced on it. This place is in high demand.
Cognac Voyeurism
Girl stands on street corner, back-combing her boyfriend’s quiff; her designer dog artfully peeing against a sleek 4×4 parked outside Shoreditch’s restaurant-bar-club McQueen. It may sound like the story board for an advert, but this is the scene that greets me as I approach McQueen, an unlikely venue for a Voyer Cognac Masterclass
Tuscany
To look at the Michelin Stars and the 50 Best Restaurant Awards, you’d think Italian food almost didn’t exist, so under represented is it on the lists. For many people, myself very much included, it would be better to be marooned on a dessert island with an Italian chef and a magic bottomless larder of provisions than with any other chef in the world.
Sounds like the 70s at the Mall Tavern
Lord but the 70s were ugly. Truly the decade that fashion forgot. You only have to look at old TV footage of riots and other fun events to see horrors that would curdle your milk, and I don’t mean the coppers whacking hippies with truncheons either. The flared trousers the police were wearing should have been a sackable offence all on their own. The Mall Tavern loves the food style and serves it with flare(s)
Claude Bosi, Isabelle Legeron and biodynamics at Hibiscus
My lunch with Isabelle Legeron, at Claude Bosi’s two Michelin starred restaurant, Hibiscus, was a great experience, both interesting and enlightening. I had been invited to sample the pairing of some of the Biodynamic wines Isabelle has selected for the Hibiscus list, with the excellent organic dishes on the menu. So, what is biodynamic production?…
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Hackney hackles all a quiver, Anita Pati finds she has to choke back her class warrior gut feelings as she guiltily spoons some rather fine scallops into her mouth. Sometimes, she has to admit, posh food is really rather nice and that most bankers are from Essex anyway.
New Steak Restaurant in Exchange Square, The Steak Exchange
I’m a big avocate of keeping things simple, so when a restaurant serving top quality steak opens on Exchange Square and adopts the name of The Steak Exchange it’s already made it into my good books
Discover the Origin with Matt Tebbutt
This week Qin Xie was invited to a Discover the Origin masterclass with chef Matt Tebbutt of The Foxhunter in Nantyderry, Monmouthshire, where she learnt about the ingredients and cooked up a storm.