Ever been out to eat somewhere where the clientele make you feel as though you’ve hurtled into a timewarp? This was the bizarre experience I had when three friends and I went for dinner at Village East, a New York-style bar and restaurant on Bermondsey Street, South London, on Saturday night. I thought I had […]
So I went back to Franco Manca in Brixton for pizza (see previous near-religious-fervour for this cafe in my previous posting) and I took some photos just to get you drooling… Tomato, chorizo and mozzarella: Gloucester Old Spot Ham, tomato, mozzarella: Tomato, garlic and oregano (left); tomato, garlic oregano, capers, anchovy, mozzarella (right): Organic lemonade: […]
I love places to eat that not only serve fabulous grub but where you struggle to spend a tenner and leave with a full belly and a smile on your face. Sound too good to be true? Living in London makes it relatively easy to find such gems, as the city is truly blessed with […]
No, not the retro stuff made from cubes out of a pack, this is a POSH raspberry jelly made with generous quantities of the real fruit. It’s tangy, but not mouth-puckeringly sour, and is MAGIC served up with a shortbread biscuit and a ball of vanilla ice cream on the side. You get all these […]
My experience of B&B’s in this country has mainly been limited to the ‘oh-my-god-get- me-outta-here’ variety: homes filled to the brim with scary knick-knacks, presided over by a strange couple who follow you from room to room, a list of rules pinned to the door, twitchy net curtains and an artery-clogging fry up delivered under […]
I recently experienced a rain-drenched week on the Isle of Skye, North-West Scotland. When the isle wasn’t being lashed with horizontal rain and gales, the sun occasionally peeped out and lit up the landscape, suffusing the harsh rocky crags of the hills and blue lochs in a golden shimmering light. We spent a fair portion […]
Last time I wrote, I was having a proper old moan about the lack of decent food options when on the road, venting my fury towards motorway service stations serving crap tucker, and lacklustre port-side sandwich merchants. But hark, I now have reason to rejoice! Quite by accident, on our way to the Lake District […]
I am quite often inspired to have a foodie rant. So here goes my first proper ‘harrumph’ on the blog. The cake above is Exhibit A – a selection of slices of banana and chocolate cake purchased from Del Aziz in Bermondsey Square, London. Nothing wrong with the cakes as such, but the lady who […]
I just wanted to give a bit of a shout-out to a splendid new Vietnamese cafe called Caphe House that has recently opened up on Bermondsey Street, tucked a stone’s throw away from London Bridge station. It’s a small, neat place with modern art pictures on the wall that for some reason makes you feel […]
I’m a fairly urban girl with an impractical wardrobe. So I wasn’t quite sure how I’d fare out in the wild at my first ever fly fishing lesson. Seeing as I don’t possess many sensible outdoor clothes, my first task was dig something out of the wardrobe in muted colours so as not to frighten […]
Toast & Butter 