Charlotte’s Bistro, a new restaurant from the team behind popular Ealing Common stalwart, Charlotte’s Place, has just opened at 6 Turnham Green Terrace,
Food scientist Melanie Loades’ recipe for the perfect pancake
The Science [So what? So everything] campaign has teamed up with food scientist Melanie Loades, and food science course leader from London Metropolitan University, Richard Marshall, to bring you six easy steps to make the perfect pancake.
Sanderson in Wonderland
Sanderson have created an intriguing version of afternoon tea based around the theme of the Mad Hatter’s Afternoon Tea Party, arguably the best choice of theme given what happened in Boston. The menu is fun, fascinating and flavourful.
Adagio, Soho, London
A proper pizza is all about its base. Forget the telephone takeaways with their emphasis on ‘fill you up’ bottoms, which have more in common with old mattresses than they do with a real pizza. And as for gimmicks like stuffing the crust, what on earth is all that about?
Fairtrade Surprise Chocolate Brownie
Celebrate Fairtrade Fortnight by tucking into these Surprise Chocolate Brownies which have Fairtrade dates, bananas and cocoa in them.
True Taste Welsh Food Market
Now in its second year, the True Taste Welsh Food Market is back, bigger and better than before, bringing fresh produce from Wales’s farm gates to Londoners’ plates. The market will be held on Friday 26 February 2010 between 11am and 7pm at Golden Square, London, W1 (just off Regent’s Street).
Great British Cheese. Fly the flag, lose the fat
Say cheese and say it loud. Great British Cheeses can be enjoyed by people watching their fat intake just as much as anyone else. The flavours are there, the traditional methods are still there. Nick Harman gets out his cheese knife in the company of Nigel White, Secretary of the British Cheese Board and samples a few cheesy delights.
Viet Grill, Hackney, London
It’s a bit of a trek out to The Viet Grill – a tube to Liverpool Street, then a jerky bus ride up the Kingsland Road and into the badlands of Hackney. Apparently people do live out here though and when they tire of being artistic the Viet Grill is where they go to spend their dinner money.
Dining for the Devastated
In aid of survivors of January’s earthquake in Haiti – the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere – Foodepedia’s Sabrina Ghayour masterminded a fundraising banquet at Le Bouchon Breton restaurant, Spitalfields Market. She talks to Douglas Blyde.
