Taste Of London 2010 Preview
Taste Of London has come around again and this year I was invited to the press preview, a lunch of ten courses spread across three London restaurants in a two hour mini restaurant crawl across Piccadilly and Soho, complete with wine and champagne pairing put together by wine expert Neil Phillips of Phillips-Hill. Starting with seafood at Bentley’s Oyster and Grill, then onto the Michelin-starred dim sum restaurant and tea room Yautacha and the final furlong at the Dehesa. Some fantastic wines and champagnes were had, including Chateau Civrac 2007 Bordeaux paired with Chargrilled beef bavette at Dehesa and surprisingly quaffable Waitrose’s own Champagne Brut NV with the vegetable dim sum platter at Yauatcha. My personal food highlights included the fantastic smoked salmon from Bentley’s and the gorgeous Courgette flowers stuffed with goats cheese and drizzled with honey form Dehesa. Continue Reading…
Sammy’s Roumanian Steak House, NY
Sammy’s Roumanian, located in a basement on Chrystie Street in the Lower East Side for over 34 years, is a New York institution. Jugs of schmaltz, rendered chicken fat, are on every table and the restaurant has the feel of a recreational room with walls adorned with college memorabilia, postcards from visitors and photos of patrons. I can’t say it was a particularly cosy environment. One might wonder what the appeal is, and I was told to be surprised. Dinner at this establishment would be the venue for my first transatlantic tweat up with Girl Uninterrupt. The Eastern European menu was almost completely alien to us and we perhaps unwisely entrusted our waiter to steer our dinner for us. Continue Reading…
Daddy Donkey’s “Ultimate Guacamole” recipe revealed!
I am lucky enough to work only a stones throw from Daddy Donkey where fellow blogger and friend LondonEater and his missus have been raving about their burritos. Slow cooked fast food, with delicious guac! And I’m please to be able to present to you their recipe. Next Monday, February 8th, Daddy Donkey owner Joel Henderson will be featured on the Good Food Channel’s Market Kitchen demonstrating to any and all how to make his “Ultimate Guacamole”. Visit www.daddydonkey.co.uk for more information about Daddy D’s amazing burritos, nachos, guacamole and more. Continue Reading…
Wikio UK Gastronomy Blogs February 2010 Top 20 Preview
I was kindly asked by my friend LondonEater to post a sneak preview of the Wikio February 2010 rankings. The rankings are updated monthly and are compiled based on the number and weight of the incoming links from other blogs, taking into account, links found in the RSS feed, while blogrolls links are not accounted for. Also the weight of any given link increases according to how recently it was published.
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Oporto: Born in Bondi and now in London
I’m not a fast food hater. Despite being processed, homogenised and generally bad for you, I am more frequently than not quite partial to it. I’d had Hungry Jacks in Australia but I’d heard only recently heard about Oporto from Catty. So when passing through Victoria Train Station, it was convenient to meet up with with a friend for a quick lunch meeting. Victoria Station is London’s busiest railway hub, and with its own shopping centre and food court at Victoria Place, Oporto launched their first international store as part of a two year roll out. The first Oporto restaurant was founded in 1986 by António Cerqueira, a Portuguese immigrant, in Bondi, Sydney, now known as the “mothership”. There are now over 100 stores in Australia and New Zealand and there are plans for one to open this year in Los Angeles. Continue Reading…
Shopsin’s General Store
I turned up at Shopsin’s for breakfast at opening time. Hidden in one corner of the almost 70 year old Essex Street Market of the Lower East Side, the diner is decked out in the style of an old time general grocery store. The Chef-Owner Kenny Shopsin perched himself with his paper on the a chair by the entrance which to the unit which, with two “booths” and a 2 person bar could sit no more than 10 people itself. Table and chairs spill out into the indoor market area but there can’t be space for more than 10 more people. I perched myself at the bar which looked onto a kitchen no larger than a thimble. Especially for an establishment that has a menu at reads like Gordon Ramsay’s worst kitchen nightmare menu, with 200 to 300 items on offer. Sandwiches include the “jewboy” – bbq pulled beef, brisket, grilled onions and swiss and “jihadboy” – beef, pomegranate, olive, sheep feta, pistachio, tahini, making just two of the 25 “name plate sandwiches”. Breakfast could be the QT, one of 40+ completely unique “breakfast name plates.” It is a shrimp guacamole, chili/egg quesadilla, caramel roll-up. The menu is as mad as it is brilliant. Continue Reading…
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