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Broad beans and mozzarella
Here’s a link to my latest post for Borough Market – on the splendidly focused Parma…
#OGR: Stepney City Farm
This one’s a little bit different. It’s something of a surprise to find a working farm between…
Tarragon mayonnaise
It was around this time last year that I began to really like tarragon. I’d never hated it…
Homeslice
Taking a food concept from the streets to proper, grown up, bricks and mortar restaurant phase is…
Browned baby gem and Stawl...
What makes a euphemism? Is it just anything that sounds a bit wrong? Or do you need malicious intent…
Crabs
I got crabs on my mind. So here’s a clip of something I wrote for Borough Market. Click on the…
One Leicester Street
In its new coat of graphite grey, One Leicester Street doesn’t jump around, waving and screaming…
#OGR – Koshari Street
Back in the days when I wore a suit, I developed a bad habit of eating a burrito about twice a week at…
Restaurant Story
“But he hasn’t got anything on” a little child said. — The booking confirmation…
Market writing
Did I mention I’m spreading my seeds a little and doing a bit of writing for Borough Market?…
Yazu Sushi
The vast majority of restaurant posts on this site are positive. This is totally counter to my general…
#OGR – Sundays at Th...
I make no apologies that my One Good Reason feature is rapidly becoming a there are loads of reasons…
Mustard spiced salmon
We’re sometimes a bit too conservative when it comes to matching spice with fish. Give a cook…
Empress of Sichuan
When the beads of sweat begin to bud on your brow, just below the eyes, and on the bridge of your nose;…
#OGR: Yum Bun at Old Stree...
Come. Come ye Gods of Silicon Valley. Come to Londinium. Leave your spacious glass campuses. Fly…
Little Social
Another week in March, another new restaurant. I confess, this one rather crept up on me. I suspect…
The Clove Club
For Daniel Willis, Johnny Smith and Isaac Mchale, the planning and opening of The Clove Club in Shoreditch…
#OGR: the Specials Board, ...
In these, our ramen days, one could almost be forgiven for forgetting or not knowing about London’s…
Beetroot soup with horsera...
Weird how a week of relatively strenuous exercise can leave you wanting (and needing) to detox.…
#OGR: Tiroler Gröstl
Skiing in Austria. You generally have to fly to weird, worryingly small airports; many of the resorts…
Brunswick House Café
Food sellers and reclaimed furniture are natural bedfellows: out of necessity to scrimp and save,…
Patty and Bun
There isn’t a ‘best’ burger in London. Of course people have their favourite(s),…
Blood orange, vanilla crea...
Lots of print and screen space is devoted to showing new ways to cook seasonal fruit and vegetables.…
#OGR: Lunch at Texture
There are, in fact, many good reasons to go and eat at Texture. But the One Good Reason that I wish to…
Aubergine & mozzarell...
Two things Mum used to tell me all the time when I was younger: 1. it’s not all about looks; and…
#OGR: the Marmite roll, Al...
OK, so here’s a new feature that’ll pop up every ten days or so. It will cover some new…
Sushi Tetsu
I have previously said that skiing and sushi are beyond economic rationale. That was obviously…
The Shed, Kensington
Perhaps a good way of describing the Shed restaurant in Kensington, is that it is bit like Polpo for…
Tray roasted ginger and ci...
If there is a recipe book in more regular use across the country at the moment than Jerusalem, then I…