Midnight Feasts conjures up a misty-eyed nostalgia, which makes for an enjoyable wallow in memories, but more than that, there are ideas for everyone in here, from the novice to the more accomplished cook: and better still, 100% of the profits go to Springboard for Children.
After Eight mint chocolate chip & ginger meringue ice
One to eat late at night in front of the telly
After Eight mint and vanilla cheesecake
Something very tasty and wickedly dark
St Patrick’s Day at Aubrey’s
Aubrey in the Irish-owned Kensington Hotel have put together a traditionally Irish 3 course set menu to be served for lunch and dinner on St Patrick’s Day, priced at just £35.
London’s oldest french restaurant starts saturday lunch service for the first time in 50 years
Mon Plaisir is London’s oldest French restaurant at over half a century, a rare entity in London’s fast-changing restaurant scene. In 1942 Charles de Gaulle dined at Mon Plaisir, and for generations this family-run institution has been serving authentic French cuisine and now, after 50 years, they will be open for lunch service on a Saturday.
Brunello at The Baglioni Hotel blows us away
Last night we had a meal that is only available for three days more. Pino Lavarra, executive chef of the two Michelin starred Rossellini’s restaurant at Palazzo Sasso in Ravello on the Amalfi coast, is at Brunello at The Baglioni Hotel as part of a year long exchange of chefs.
Seasonal Spanish Food – Jose Pizarro
A professional chef, and the man behind the successful Brindisa tapas kitchens, Jose Pizaro knows his stuff. As Spain continues to culinarily crush all before it, thanks to the El Bulli factor, Jose still has his heart set on the simple honesty of tapas type meals.
Food Foundations
Douglas Blyde ventured to Leith’s School of Food and Wine, Hammersmith, to meet acting Managing Director, Jenny Stringer.
The magic of mushrooms. Recipes and more
They get a bit of a bad press do mushrooms. There are the naughty ones that make you see pretty colours, the ones that turn you into a berserk Viking bent on rape, and perhaps some light pillage if time allows, and then there are the ones that kill you stone dead.So consider the humble mushroom, virtually fat free, full of B vitamins, part of our 5 a day, filling, packed with antioxidants and minerals and sustainable when cultivated.
My Dining Room is now open to the public
Recently opened following a refurbishment and a change of name, from ‘The Farm’, My Dining Room is the latest gastro pub to open in fulham. Together with other media types I was invited along, following its recent launch, to sample some of the dishes from their menu andI was favourably impressed with what I tasted.