Catch : of the day [invite]
There are five restaurants inside the beast of a hotel that is Andaz. Situated right in the heart of the square mile, a part of town where I periodically get lost in. I did as I usually do to turn to my trusty GPS when…
Bistrot Bruno Loubet : He’s back?
The last time Bruno Loubet was cooking professionally in London, I was apparently on scene to try his much praise innovative yet traditionally grounded French cooking. On that occasion, he was a guest chef for Pierre Koffman’s superbly successful Selfridges pop-up, which in 2009, had…
Tate Modern Restaurant : Benchmark museum food.
The last time I went to the Tate Modern, I was completely baffled by one of the exhibits. A slab of wood, painted white probably no bigger than 10 x10, jutted out from the similarly pearl white wall. On this wooden plank sat a large…
A camera guide for foodbloggers (and everybody else)
This is what food blogging looks like. Today, he is trying an experiment, by training his antiquated film camera on a plate of cheese and fruit all the while bobbing to tunes streamed from the internet to his touch sensitive media device that can also…
Roka : Japanese, expensive but oh so very good.
Roka is part of an ever expanding chain of zenith-class restaurants owned by German restaurateur, Rainer Becker. He also happens to own the Zuma line of luxury restaurants. Since he opened Zuma in 2002, and then Roka two years later, his highly acclaimed brand of…
Just how good are London restaurants?
Sir Joshua Reynolds, the 18th century painter held the view that defining good art required standardisation and classification. He argued in one of his discourses on art that general beauty makes more sense than particularities because it was rational and because that’s how the human…
“rhubarb” food bar : the flight of fancy
I perform too much of a ritual when I am about to travel to pay valuable attention to the eating at all, let alone eating well. Flying elicits all kinds of emotional responses, my brain becomes strangely reflective of the past x number of months…
J Sheekey : Gone fishing.
There is money behind J Sheekey. The ultimate owner, Richard Caring bought the Caprice galaxy of restaurants, amongst other things for a cool £30m in 2005 with a view to transform it into a superbrand of luxury eateries. This very group also includes some old…
My experience with Taiwanese cuisine.
Hello folks, I am officially back from my month long vacation, trust you have applied yourselves positively while I’ve been away. My yearly visit to the folks is always enlightening if perspective bending though this is the first time in eight years that I went…
A weekend in Berlin : Currywurst, Einstein Coffee, Cafe Noe, Rogacki and Restaurant Oderquelle
I left Berlin thinking how everything was physically larger. Perhaps the city architects mistook their metric scales for imperial ones. The repeated pattern which cover the major central train stations went on forever and they make St Pancras feel more like Covent Garden. The behemoth…
Wikio Gastronomy blogs rankings March 2010 Preview
And here we go again peeps, a sneak into this month’s Wikio rankings. 1 The Guardian – Word of Mouth (=) 2 Eat like a girl (=) 3 Food Stories (+1) 4 DOS HERMANOS (+7) 5 Hollow Legs (=) 6 Cheese and Biscuits (-3) 7…
Taipei Niu Rou Mian Superbattle 2010 : Lin Dong Fang, Lao Chang and Tao Yuan Street.
Ask any Taiwanese what their number one to-eat dish is and the answer is likely to be Niu Rou Mian. Originally a Northern Chinese recipe, it eventually made it’s way to Taiwan when millions of Nationalist Mainlanders fled the Middle country to escape Communism (source…