a guide to 'traveleating'
Posted in dining out, food, London, meat, Pakistani, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Mar 28th, 2009
Background: Fellow food bloggers rave about this Pakistani Punjabi restaurant in Whitechapel, which has been around for over 30 years. So I finally decided to drag myself over to East London, in fact twice in the last month, to see what all the fuss was about. The first visit was with my little brother, the [...]
Posted in British, dining out, food, London, restaurant review, restaurants, traveleating on Mar 10th, 2009
Background: It was a toss-up between dinner at Hix Oyster & Chop House or Hawksmoor. I didn’t really mind when my friend chose the former because both were on my wishlist and I’ll be visiting Hawksmoor soon anyway. So back I went to Farringdon, the third time in a month, to visit what used to [...]
Posted in cookery, cookery books, cooking, food, food & travel, Indian, meat, recipe, traveleating on Mar 7th, 2009
Regular readers will know that I’ve been a big fan of food writer Manju Malhi ever since attending her cookery workshop at Books for Cooks last year. I learned some simple Indian dishes from her that I’ve been making regularly. Manju recently sent me a copy of her Easy Indian cookbook and this is the [...]
Posted in dining out, food, London, meat, restaurant review, restaurants, wine on Mar 4th, 2009
Background: I was recently invited to have dinner at The Butcher’s Block, a private dining room at the Malmaison London Brasserie, and write a review about it. Even though the meal was complimentary, I was nevertheless very conscious of the need to treat it exactly like any other meal that I would have paid for [...]
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, [...]
