Last night I took a voyage to carbohydrate heaven at a really fun pop-up restaurant night organised by Daniel Young of Young & Foodish. Called ‘Spaghetti Wednesday’, it took the shape of a gourmet spaghetti night, where you paid for your ticket in advance, turned up and let a couple of top chefs spoil […]
You know when middle aged-ness has crept up? It has happened to us, sure enough – we own a driveway (paved!) and also spent last weekend pressure washing the patio. There’s no going back after that. And to complete this middle aged suburban hat trick? We now own a slow cooker. Oh yes, my friends, […]
London’s lead-coloured skies are really soul-sapping today. I literally want to lie down and eat doughballs under a duvet. If you’re feeling this way, I recommend this almighty HORNBAG of a delicious Vietnamese curry, which will get some fire in your belly and a flicker of a pulse back into your veins. But first, some […]
When I moved to Crystal Palace in SE London 12 years ago, it was a bit of a desert for anyone that likes to eat and drink nice things. Although there were lots of takeaways and restaurants, many were depressingly average. The middle class foodie’s best bet for a drink out, amid a motley selection […]
I had been told the food in Croatia was wonderful, due to its proximity to Italy. Hurrah, I thought, I’ll be scoffing truffles, amazing pasta and seafood, and will have Italian-inspired cuisine pouring out of my ears. Well, as it turned out, those foods hail from a part of Croatia called Istria, in the north, […]
Wanted: a good looking chap who can sing professionally, act, write his own opera AND cook beautifully. Hmmm. Nobody out there with such a CV exists, do they? Oh, but wait, here’s my good friend Mike. He can lay claim to all of the above. No kidding. He’s one seriously talented hombre: So no – […]
How can I have never been to Rye before now, given my love of food, nautical atmospheres and rummaging for vintage tat? It’s amazing there! Perfect for a day trip from London, blustering with fresh sea breezes, its cobbled streets lined with charming old fashioned shops. It has one particularly amazing foodie pub too – […]
Once upon a time a group of breakfast obsessives got together and decided to write about good and bad places to eat breakfast in London. Their pen names were all cheeky breakfast-y puns – Malcolm Eggs, Seb Emina, Blake Pudding, Poppy Tart; you get the jist. They fearlessly went everywhere in their quest for the […]
I have quite literally discovered one of the sexiest, most moreish cakes EVER KNOWN: the Danish Coconut Dream Cake otherwise known as Drømmekage. Who in their right mind would think to top a vanilla sponge with a thick, luscious layer of melting ‘flapjack’ pumped with lots of vanilla and SALT? Holy crap, those crazy Danes, […]
When I’m having a bad day, I make a beeline to journalist Esther Walker’s Recipe Rifle blog – it never fails to make me snort with laughter. She writes about cooking and parenthood in a funny, sarcastic, feisty and totally unsentimental way. Telling people how things really are in her world, with no gloss or […]
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