Knowing how to order a kebab sounds like something that should be easy. You decide what you want, you ask for it. Simple. Apparently not. I went to buy a kebab the other night. It had been a rather boozy evening and I hadn’t had time for dinner. Kebab shops are funny places. They are the…
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Diving in, to the crumbly remains
Last night I made an apple crumble. I had promised my housemates some time ago that I would, and decided that since it was a Monday, and I didn’t have anything particularly pressing to do, I would bake them a treat. After I got home from work, in the midst of gobbling up a smoked…
Sparkling Wine Tasting – Laithwaite’s
It’s Thursday evening, and I am back at Laithwaite’s in London bridge for a sparkling wine tasting. Not only am I happily drinking, I’m learning! I had always taken it for granted that the bubbles were just there. I had never considered how they got there in the first place. Looks like we might owe…
Brewhouse and Kitchen – Pie, mash, and a well lost pub quiz
Last night I went with some friends to the Brewhouse and Kitchen in Islington. In truth we were actually there for their Monday night pub quiz. We had been threatening each other with it for the last few months and had finally decided to bite the bullet and put our general knowledge to the test….
Black Axe Mangal
Are you the sort of person that wants to eat delicious food and rock out at the same time? If so, then B.A.M is the place for you. A few days after I’d posted about my birthday dinner at Tredwell’s I received a text from my friend. “Rare indeed!” it read “Fancy a trip to Black…
Ottolenghi
I took a very good friend of mine to Ottolenghi Spitalfields to celebrate the evening of her birthday. In truth, it wasn’t her birthday at all. It was about three months previously and I being the essentially disorganised person that I am, hadn’t got around to planning anything earlier. I was pretty unconcerned by this….
Poco
London can be difficult sometimes. You can have a million friends around one weekend and the next everyone disappears to the French Alps or something and there is no-one. This is generally okay, I’m pretty good at self entertaining, and, especially when I’m trying to write, it’s not very productive having someone talking in my…
The Baby Banana
I get excited about the strangest things when it comes to food. It’s not high brow or anything, there is nothing gourmet to see here. I was so thrilled though, at the prospect of getting to eat this adorable baby banana that I turned it into a little mini ‘artwork’ first and pretty much had…
Pâté Moi
I don’t tend to buy pâté’s very often, but I really love this one! I discovered it a few years ago while wandering around Borough Markets and have been buying it ever since. Sometimes i’m a really lazy cook, especially when i’m only cooking for myself, midweek, after a long day at work. This is one…
The Royal Oak
I went to visit the New Forest recently, which is so pretty! It reminded me so much of ‘The Wind in the Willows’ that I almost expected Mr Toad to go hot air ballooning past me in a Harris Tweed suit. Alas, that was not to happen, but I did get a fantastic recommedation for…
Sora Margherita
I hope you will forgive me for being a bit retrospective, but there are some places that I have been to in the past that I can’t stop thinking about. Unfortunately I won’t get back for a little while, but I figure why should that stop me telling people about it? One of these places…
A semi eggcellent story
This may seem weird for some people, but growing up, I never had to ‘manually’ boil an egg. We always had an egg cooker. You just filled it up to the line, flicked the switch, and bob’s you’re uncle! It was easy! It turned off when the time was right and there you had it,…
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