On the Flemish Coast there are 14 resorts, and while the beaches may be a bit nippy for all but the hardiest holidaymakers, the restaurants offer somewhere warm and welcoming as well as some seriously fine and modern dining. Right now you can sample what they have to offer without leaving London by going to Harrods.
Challah Bread
My wonderful friend in New York, Carrie (no, not the one from Sex and The City) very kindly shared this fantastic recipe with me and the results were so good, I just had to share it with you.
Your pizza, your way at Ponti’s Italian Kitchen, it’s a DIY delight
What can you get for fifteen pounds in London Town? Half a ticket to the back row of a West End show? One and a quarter cocktails in a chi-chi Soho bar? Well how about dinner, a drink, dessert and ready-made date banter? Thomas Henry throws up his pizza.
The spirit of South London. Drinking in the Beefeater Distillery
The iconic London gin is the only one to be actually still made in London, and Beefeater is the favoured gin of the new, hip, mixologists. Not bad for a spirit once the subject of 18th century vilification. At the Beefeater Distillery in South London, we meet Master Distiller Desmond Payne and he takes us through the process and into the bar!
Le Colombier Restaurant London
It’s not often I enter a restaurant and immediately lower the average age of the clientele by about thirty years. All around us glided silver haired, straight- backed gentlemen of ex-Brigadier appearance, accompanied by their good lady wives decked in the family jewellery. It was rather like entering one of the last books of A Dance To The Music of Time. Mark Members over there, Sir Magnus Donners at the door and to the side, balefully watching the throng, Widmerpool himself.
Jazz up your afternoons at the Cadogan
Every Thursday during December 2009, Latin Jazz band, Sol Chango, will perform exclusively from 6:30pm until 10:30pm, in the lounge at The Cadogan Hotel in Knightsbridge.
Opera all over your Sunday lunch at Brasserie St. Jacques
On Sundays Brasserie St. Jacques has its live Opera brunch for only £25 per person, or £30 with a glass of Charles Heidsieck Champagne. Every Sunday diners can listen to the beautiful sounds of Oyster Opera from Noon till 4pm, accompanied by dishes such as Salade d’endive et bleu; Merlan en colere with peas, frites and sauce tartare; and Meringue Mont Blanc.
bottlegreen spiced berry cordial returns for the winter season
Made from blackcurrants and aronia berries, blended with a selection of winter spices to capture that taste of the festive season, all you need do is add hot water to a measure of bottlegreen Spiced Berry Cordial to release its warm aromas.
Vasco & Piero’s Pavilion
Mid week and mob handed we were having no luck getting a table at a new Soho hip hangout, so it was with bitterness in our hearts, and a copy of that restaurant’s lunch-time only booking number in our hands, that we sought the reliable shelter of Vasco & Piero’s Pavilion Restaurant.
Whoopie for the Whoopie-Pie!
The Whoopie Pie is divine cake-like sandwich has already taken America by storm, where they are flying off the shelves at speciality shops and bakeries up and down the country. This week, The Whoopie Pie makes its British debut at Harrods and having had an exclusive taster, I can tell you that they are every bit as scrumptious as they look.