a guide to 'traveleating'
Posted in cookery, cooking, food, France, French, travel, traveleating on Aug 24th, 2009
[UPDATE: 14 September 2009 - you can win 2 Eurostar tickets to Lille by entering my competition. Click on the link for more details. You have until the end of September to enter. Good luck!] ************************* The PR company for Eurostar’s Little break, Big difference campaign recently invited some food bloggers on a culinary day [...]
Posted in British, dining out, food, French, London, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Jun 23rd, 2009
Background: When our Canadian friends visited London recently, I had to think hard about where to take them for dinner. As we’d already dined at The Wolseley, Konstam and Yauatcha with them over the last two years, I wanted to maintain the high standards to which they’re accustomed in London. In the end, I chose [...]
Posted in Australian, dining out, food, French, London, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Dec 28th, 2008
Background: My foodie boss was the one who recommended Giaconda, although it’s been on the lips of every food blogger since it opened on Tin Pan Alley, or Denmark Street, earlier this year. It’s named after the famous Giaconda Café (a popular musicians’ hangout in the 1960s) and serves reasonably priced French-influenced dishes in a [...]
Posted in British, dining out, food, French, London, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating, wine on Sep 8th, 2008
Le Café Anglais is ex-Kensington Place chef Rowley Leigh’s new(ish) venture. It won London Restaurant of the Year and New Restaurant of the Year at the London Restaurant Awards a few days ago. As it’s had plenty of positive write-ups, I’d always intended to visit one day. After sampling their heavenly spit roast belly pork [...]
Posted in cookery, cooking, dining out, food, French, London, recipe, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Sep 2nd, 2008
L’Atelier de Joël Robuchon has been on and off my restaurant wishlist ever since it opened in London. However, after going to Taste London in June and sampling their crispy langoustine fritter with basil pistou and baby beef and foie gras burger with lightly caramelised bell peppers, I was finally persuaded to make the journey [...]
