Anita Pati gets into fine Italian dining but has to endure some psychotic career counseling for starters. Will the Ossobucco reveal its innermost secrets? Was the Scallop a mussel in its past life? Could Anita have picked a worse dining companion?
Dion Bar Restaurant, St Paul’s Churchyard, London
Dion’s lunch menu is more extensive than that for the evening which has its focus on bar food, though several of these are starter dishes from the lunch menu and we can assure you that these are not small. This is a great place for a lunch or an evening gathering during the week, the food is great.
Gelato Mio, indulgent Italian ice cream
Gelato Mio’s main focus is the production and sale of their house made ice creams and sorbets. However, as well as being an ice cream parlour, Gelato Mio in Notting Hill is a coffee shop, which has a huge amount of seating for their customers to relax and enjoy a coffee and biscuits or a lovely velvety ice cream from their range, or both.
Pizza for breakfast and it’s free!
Pizza East staff will be dishing out samples of their ‘Rollys’ outside the tea building in Shoreditch on the mornings of on Monday 8, Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 March, enabling East London trendies to sample the goods.
St Patrick’s Day celebration at Bentley’s
Richard Corrigan’s iconic Irish seafood restaurant is the venue for this year’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations. Harking from County Meath, Ireland, Richard knows the vital ingredients for both a St Patrick’s Day meal as well as entertainment.
Seeds, dirt and a bitter taste
Organic food giant ‘Seeds of Change’ recently launched a new range of cooking sauces to accompany their ‘Great flavours, well grown” campaign. The sauces were used in recipes served up by organic enthusiast Arthur Potts Dawson, executive chef at Acorn House. After sampling the food we were also treated to a ‘dirt tasting’ demonstration by Garden Organic’s Director of Operations, Bob Sherman.
Food presenting secrets – Cara Hobday and Jo Denbury
Do people laugh when you put food on the table? Are you ashamed of how your leeks look? Fear not for here coming at you like an embossed invitation to Abigail’s Party, is Food Presenting Secrets featuring all the Creative Styling Techniques you never knew you needed.
Delima Malaysian Restaurant, London
Tucked away on Southwick Street in W2, you’d be forgiven for not knowing about Delima, a new Malaysian restaurant. A few minutes walk away from the bustling hub of the Edgware Road and Paddington Station, the locale of this eatery may prove to be its secret weapon, along with its impressive cuisine served at affordable prices.
All rise! Gizzi Erskine’s masterclass in baking real bread
‘It’s like squeezing a baby’s bottom,’ says Gizzi Erskine talking about how a well-risen, knocked back piece of dough should feel. I’m thinking of something else entirely but as the majority of people at this demonstration are women I decide to keep that to myself.