eating&reading 14 Dec 08: Jingle bells in 11 days

Weekly round-up of yummi-news from around london and the blogosphere. Now released every Sunday and brought to you by a London eater. Ranting about oversalt at hibiscus, wondering why a humbug club exists in the UK and reading up on great christmas recipes. Come in…

Anybody watching the X-factor final tonight?

Alright, as I write this – the Girls Aloud party is on tv now before the results go live in about 10 minutes. The x-factor marketing vehicle keeps the brand turning with rossopomodoro immortalising the judges by….. pizza. Apparently, the managing director of the italian…

london eater does hibiscus (review)

Hibiscus is the highly regarded michelin starred joint maintained by Claude and Claire Bosi. The french couple arrived on the shores of england some 11 years ago and have sinced established a name for themselves here in London. Located in the posh bit between marylebone…

midweek eating quirker: the weirdest foods

You have a strange food fancy don’t you? Let’s face it , weird combinations can and often will turn out better than one might expect. How else could you explain michelin star chefs turning bread into jelly, or working bacon into an ice cream ? Ok, i’m going to…

Introducing the midweek eating quirker

Some of you might have noticed that I missed last sunday’s edition of eating&reading. Thanks to a combination of work related issues, a notorious double charging ticketing machine at the local cinema and other non-mentionables, I was kept completely offline for the entire weekend. I’m…

Some christmas gift ideas for the merry

Jingle bells. It’s not long now before I break out the reindeer sleights and go ho ho ho across the London skyline… hey it’s Christmas – miracles do happen. I’m taking a break from the usual eating, because it’s chrissymas! Chrissymas is one of my…

A recession proof lunch at wild honey

This review is way overdue. First of all, wild honey’s reputation precedes them, yet I feel like their presence is still relatively low-key. I think of wild honey as the new wave of modern awesome british restaurants serving exciting food and modernising the sour reputation…

London Eater does moo.

My moo cards finally arrived and I thought it’d be nice to talk abit about them. If you do a quick flickr search for moo cards, you’ll find there’s a quite a following for these super cool things. I was surfing around for an appropriate…