Posted in Alan Yau, Chinese, London, awards, cookery, cookery books, cooking, dim sum, dining out, food, recipe, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on May 31st, 2009
The monthly summary, for May.
I suppose I’d better start with the big news! I’m very proud to announce that World Foodie Guide has been shortlisted by the Guild of Food Writers for the New Media of the Year Award, along with Elisabeth Winkler’s blog Real Food Lover and Tim Hayward’s blog on The Guardian & [...]
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Posted in Alan Yau, Chinese, London, Michelin star, afternoon tea, dim sum, dining out, food, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating, vegetarian on May 26th, 2009
Background:
Regular readers will know that I adore dim sum! I’m currently updating last year’s post Where To Eat Dim Sum In London, and have created a shortlist of dim sum restaurants to revisit as well as to visit for the first time. Having recently ticked a few new ones off the list – Yum Cha, [...]
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Posted in Alan Yau, Australian, Beijing, China, Chinese, England, Hong Kong, Italian, London, Macau, bakery, cafe, cookery, cooking, dining out, fish and chips, food, recipe, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating, vegetarian on Nov 30th, 2008
The monthly summary for November…
The first half of the month was spent frantically trying to finish the remainder of the Postcards from China. Each day of the China trip has finally been written up as Postcards, outlining not only our eating experiences, but also travel tips, noteworthy places to visit and interesting shops we came [...]
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Posted in Alan Yau, Italian, Italy, London, bakery, cafe, cooking, dining out, food, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating, vegetarian on Nov 8th, 2008
Ever since I heard about Princi opening up on Wardour Street, just down the road from my office, I’ve been meaning to take a look. Gourmet baker Rocco Princi’s Milan boutique bakery chain has just opened its first branch in London, in conjunction with the ubiquitous Alan Yau. It did take me over a week [...]
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[UPDATE: July 2009 - the prices have gone up at Cha Cha Moon]
Alan Yau’s long-awaited Chinese noodle bar Cha Cha Moon finally opened off Carnaby Street a few days ago. The restaurateur behind Wagamama and Busaba Eathai (as well as Hakkasan, Yauatcha and Sake no Hana of course) has returned to low-budget communal dining.
I hadn’t [...]
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