Posted in Hunan, Japanese, London, Michelin star, Taiwanese, awards, cookery, cookery books, cooking, dim sum, dining out, food, pizza, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Jun 30th, 2009
I suppose I had better start with the Guild of Food Writers 2009 Awards party, which I attended last Thursday as a shortlistee for the New Media category. I didn’t win, but I did get the opportunity to meet some fantastic people, including my two ‘rivals’ for the New Media award, Tim Hayward from the [...]
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Posted in Italian, London, dining out, food, organic, pizza, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating, vegetarian on Jun 14th, 2009
Background:
People seem to really enjoy the pizzas at Franco Manca in Brixton Market, South London and I’ve read many a rave review. I must therefore be one of the last food bloggers to make the pilgrimage. When little brother told me that he regularly eats at Franco Manca and Wild Caper, FM’s tiny delicatessen and [...]
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Posted in Italian, Italy, London, dining out, food, pasta, pizza, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Jan 12th, 2009
Background:
Rossopomodoro (‘red tomato’) in Covent Garden is part of a large pizza chain based in Naples, Italy with 70 branches around the world. There are two other London branches in Notting Hill and Chelsea, and according to their website, they pride themselves on cooking traditional Neapolitan food using ingredients from the region. I recently read [...]
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Posted in Bologna, Italian, Italy, dining out, food, pizza, restaurant review, restaurants, travel, traveleating on Jan 23rd, 2008
I had worked out my Bologna shortlist of restaurants two months before the trip, and all the restaurants for lunch and dinner had been booked one month in advance. Our last meal in Bologna was to be at Nicola’s, which supposedly serves the best pizzas in the city. I hadn’t actually wanted to eat pizza [...]
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