Posted in British, dining out, food, London, meat, Michelin star, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating, wine on Jan 23rd, 2009
Background: St John in Farringdon has been bouncing on and off my restaurant wishlist for many years. I finally had the opportunity to dine there on Tuesday, when wine blogger Rob McIntosh from Wine Conversation and Thirst for Rioja invited fellow food bloggers Niamh, Chris, Helen, Lizzie and I to dinner to meet Rafael Vivanco, [...]
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Posted in cookery, cooking, food, food & travel, Italian, Italy, Michelin star, pasta, recipe, traveleating, vegetarian on Dec 25th, 2008
This simple dish, spaghetti con zucca al burro e salvia, is ‘inspired by’ the delectable tortelli di zucca that we had at Italian Michelin-starred Dal Pescatore six months ago. The pumpkin tortelli, made with amaretti biscuits, is one of the restaurant’s signature dishes. As it’s just one of various courses, only five pieces are served, [...]
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Posted in Cantonese, China, Chinese, dim sum, dining out, food, Hong Kong, Michelin star, restaurant review, restaurants, travel, traveleating, vegetarian on Oct 27th, 2008
This is the fourth in a series of Postcards from the recent Hong Kong, Macau and Beijing traveleating trip. Rather than writing up each food experience in separate posts, which would have taken me up to Christmas, I thought it would be more fun to outline the trip in diary form, to include travel and [...]
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I’ve been meaning for ages to write a summary of where I like to eat in Soho, London. In fact, I planned this a year ago when I was writing restaurant reviews for urbanpath.com. As I work in Soho, I’m always on the look-out for places to go to for lunch or an early dinner. [...]
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Lunch in Trento was a spur of the moment decision. It would take around an hour to drive there from Limone Sul Garda, where we were staying, and as we unusually had no plans for the day, a trip to Trento seemed like fun. It was Monday, so almost everything was closed until 3.30. Luckily, [...]
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