Today I was invited along to Bar Pepito, London’s only sherry bar and styled after one of the small one-room bars that you’ll find down alleyways in towns and cities all over Spain. I was there to join in as new staff from its bigger sister, the Camino Cruz del Rey restaurant across the square […]
The East India Company Returns
Today I was invited along to the grand opening of a new store in the heart of London’s West End specialising in very high quality gourmet food, the reinvented ‘East India Company‘. Taking their inspiration from the trading company established in the 1600s and which had its heyday during the Raj, when it imported all […]
Great British Beer Festival 2010
Last night J and I went to the third night of the Campaign for Real Ale’s (CAMRA) Great British Beer Festival at Earls Court. CAMRA, the organisation whose mission is to protect consumer rights and ensure that the quality of British beer is maintained, as well as supporting the continued existence of pubs (many of […]
Simon Rimmer’s J20 White Blend Recipes
If you’ve been reading for a while you’ll remember I was swinging a hundred or so feet above the Southbank as Simon Rimmer from the BBC’s Something For The Weekend food show prepared a couple of dishes he’d created to match with the new range of J20 White Blend drinks. I’ve now managed to get […]
J20 White Blend & Dinner In The Sky!
I think I need to get used to heights given that I was up on the London Eye yesterday and what happened earlier this afternoon… Today sees the launch of J2O’s new ‘White Blend’ drinks which are based around grapes so they’re a lot less heavy and sweet than their existing range and, instead, are […]
Cobra 10th Annual Brick Lane Curry Festival
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the Cobra Brick Lane Curry Festival, a two week celebration of south Asian culture and cuisine, which starts tomorrow and runs until 4 June. The launch of the event took place at the Clifton, a very well appointed restaurant right at the bottom of Brick Lane and the […]
Samosa Session @ Chilli Chutney
I’m glad that I’m a bit of a foodie, because here comes my second restaurant blog entry of the week. Courtesy of my friends at Qype (and TikiChris in particular) I was down in Streatham earlier this evening at Chilli Chutney. You can find Chilli Chutney amongst a small group of bistros just down the […]