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I’d like to think I’m a deft hand with pasta dishes and I’m not even Italian.But I’ve tasted the best bowl of pasta ever. Hats off to the chap who concocted it and he’s not Italian either.The chap in...
Oh no, not yet another review of 10 Greek Street! Ok, less of the text but the following is worth noting-The negative-Onion bread- is it a bread or cake? Doughy, stodgy, sometimes wet, sometimes...
During my recent ten day visit to Lahore the head of the delegation would often insist on wrapping up the daily proceedings at one of the restaurants of the hotel we were staying in. It was alw...
Blogging has its perks and one of them is befriending MsMarmitelover. We met when we both started to blog at the same time more than three years ago and we have remained chums ever since. She knows m...
To love Vietnamese food is one thing but to gain more cognition about the Vietnamese people themselves goes much deeper than just a bowl of pho. Ever since I noticed the huge refugee camps in Malaysi...
Im off to Lahore for the next ten days. Wi-Fi pending, my daily goings-on can be tracked here.
If I were an animal Id be a lobster because I’m noble (self-assessed no less) and fancy a bit of negligible senescence. But then again-Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare "You have ...
Just a little over two years’ ago Viet Hoa embarked on a total re-branding exercise and abandoned the canteen-for-the-proletariat identity it had thrived on for about eight years. Whilst the majority...
New Fook Lam Moon is a longstanding Cantonese restaurant in London’s Chinatown and to the Chinese the name conjures up and preserves a degree of assurance; ‘fortune arriveth at the door’. The restaur...
If I were to divulge about the top five world cuisines then Spanish wouldn’t figure. And if we were talking about the top ten instead, it would still lag behind the Japanese, Moroccans, Mexicans and ...
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough. William ShakespeareFeeling brassic?Well lets rejoice and celebrate one of London’s best kept secrets- Hereford Road’s Set Lunch. It’s the most perfect food-...
Let’s say a prayer and help save Gabys Deli.If you’ve been banged up for a consideration stretch somewhere in the Altai Mountains then you best read about the above here, here and Norm’s biased revie...
Croydon Fun Weekend or #croydonfunweekend is the brainchild of @kake. It’s an event that lasts for three days and brings together a gathering of friends to appreciate what Croydon has to offer. The i...
Of late I’ve been solo dining a lot less as I’ve recently rejuvenated my dinner dates with MsMarmitelover. Of my entire regular dining companions she’s the most fastidious nitpicker and quite rightly...
I remember a time when Golden Wonder Cheese and Onion Crisps were the bees knees, when Bovril actually gave you strength with its original recipe, when a can of regular Lilt contained no artificial s...
Julia Child once said ‘You dont have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.’ By virtue of the three best meals I’ve eaten this year the following restauran...
What is it about Monica Galetti? Well there’s no doubt she’s a talented and articulate professional but she also has a very intimidating aura of menace and mystery about her. I believe the fear she i...
The following guest post is a review by MsMarmitelover-" We arent serving you burgers!" said the doorman (who turned out to be Mr @pubgeek) at Meat Liquor.I wondered for a minute if hed read ...
For sometime now I’ve been aware that age has finally caught up with me and I simply cannot keep up with blogging about the endless stream of new openings in London. It’s actually quite a relief that...
SanXia RenJia is the only restaurant in London serving authentic Hunan, Hubei and Sichuan food…or so its website alleges. But as an insurance it also caters for the uninformed masses with such tired ...
The last time I had a Polish meal was also my first and that was an inexcusable three and a half years ago! Judging by the guesstimates of between 500,000 to a million Poles working or residing in th...
On settling the bill:Fat Les- ‘Erm, what’s the cover charge for?’Young Inexperienced But Obliging Waiter- ‘Bread’FL and dining companion in unison- ‘But we didn’t have any bread!’YIBOW- ‘Oh but no bu...
Brick LaneA great deal has been blogged, tweeted, discussed and bantered about The Rib Man so I’ve decided to keep the post brief. Like here, here and of course here, The Rib Man has successfully mar...
Last weekend I took an extended lunch break from work. The journey time to and from Broadway Market was two hours ten minutes (I work in W1) and the queuing for lunch was an additional ten minutes bu...
If Mama Lan was still an active supper club and I had a disappointing meal there; I would simply walk away and keep shtum about it. Publishing negative reviews about supper clubs are a no-no in my bo...
Lai Tong in Cantonese could mean house soup, staff soup or also soup that can be served all day. In larger Chinese restaurants the kitchen has to cook a meal for the staff before service kicks in at ...
Prepped myself with a tipple of Navarra and a rather large spicy lamb roll from the Ginger Pig in Marylebone. (As for the latter, avoid, ‘twas a case of doing away with excess meat before due disposa...
A massive thanks to IHC for prodding my shoulder about Lucky Chip. But I shan’t torment you with me sloppy writing about the finer details of LC as Kang the Devourer has already done so and albeit mo...
From now till the end of Jan 2012 I’ll endeavour to eat as much game as I can. And that’s hopefully without breaking my teeth courtesy of the odd lead shot, or let alone swallowing the blasted projec...
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