‘Ladies and Gentlemen, on Behalf of the Captain and the Entire Crew, I Would Like to Welcome you aboard the White Blackbird Aerobanquet, a Non Stop Service from London to The Olde Bell, Hurley”
South African wine festival at Vivat Bacchus
City restaurant Vivat Bacchus will be hosting a South African wine festival at its Farringdon branch (47, Farringdon Street) between 12-14 May, coinciding with the International Wine & Spirits Fair taking place in London.
De la Warr Pavilion restaurant
Bexhill on Sea may not be as well known a foodie destination as Bray or Marlow, but it may just have the most unique restaurant of them all. At least when you look at it.
Hell’s Kitchen – it was heaven
It’s taken me a week to get over the hole in my life that is Hell’s Kitchen I began watching from the terylene embrace of a cheap bed in a hotel room in France and, thanks to Mr Tivo, watched it here when I came home late every night.
Gilgamesh Opens Food Market
This summer critically acclaimed Pan-Asian restaurant Gilgamesh will open a food market on Monday nights within an area of the vast venue from the end of this month.
Jom Makan – fast, fresh and affordable
Translated Jom Makan means ‘Let’s Go Eat’ and that simple statement is the very ethos behind this avowedly no nonsense, minimal restaurant tah aims to deliver fast, fresh, Malaysian cuisine to your table.
Arriba – Mexican Independence day ideas
Great things come from Mexico and not all require a blue face mask!
Me Love Sushi
Me love Sushi – I don’t generally, though J – my friend and dining pardner for the night, swears by its protein content. So away we tubed to Swiss Cottage on a miserable, rain-blasted evening to a Brutalist restaurant whose sheet glass windows leaked in all that cold.
The Tomato Book – Gail Harland and Sofia Larrinua-Craxton
You certainly can’t complain you don’t know what you’re getting when you buy this book – it does exactly what it says on the cover. The pleasures of choosing, growing and cooking the little red devils is what this book is all about.
Real Food: Health and Happiness
Philip Lowery, Director of the Real Food Festival, talks to Douglas Blyde on time travel, ‘ros boeufs’ and guilty Ginsters pasties…