a guide to 'traveleating'
Posted in Korean, London, dining out, food, food & travel, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Sep 7th, 2009
Background:
Despite our recent Koba tweatup, Catty from The Catty Life and I were craving yet more Korean food. So after reading a positive Time Out review of new Korean restaurant Naru in Covent Garden, we decided to see what it was like. It’s a pretty space, simply decorated, and interestingly, there are no barbecue grills [...]
Posted in Japanese, London, dining out, food on Sep 2nd, 2009
Background:
Japanese restaurant Dinings is the latest participant of the recent Taste of London festival that I chose to visit (the others being L’Anima, Launceston Place and Salt Yard). At Taste, I sampled a tiny bit of my friend’s wagyu beef tataki with ponzu sauce and porcini oil, as well as my own dish consisting of [...]
Posted in Cantonese, Chinese, London, dim sum, dining out, food, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Aug 27th, 2009
Background:
If you’ve been reading my blog or following my tweets for a while, you may know that I’m a huge fan of dim sum and that one of my favourite restaurants in London for dim sum is Pearl Liang (the others being Yauatcha and Yum Cha). As my last dim sum post on Pearl Liang [...]
Posted in Italian, London, dining out, food, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Aug 22nd, 2009
Background:
L’Anima, which means ‘the soul’ in Italian, attracted much attention at the recent Taste of London food festival. I didn’t sample any of Francesco Mazzei’s dishes, but the feedback from fellow food bloggers was so positive that I added the restaurant to my wishlist. Mazzei was once employed by Alan Yau as head chef at [...]
Posted in Lebanese, London, dining out, food, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating, vegetarian on Aug 17th, 2009
Background:
I booked a table for a work lunch at new Lebanese eaterie Yalla Yalla, having heard positive reports of the food there. ‘Yalla’ means ‘hurry up!’ or ‘let’s go!’ in Arabic and is a most familiar word to me, because an ex-Lebanese boyfriend used to say it to me constantly. Not that I was a [...]
