Author: K

Pearl Liang, Beautiful. [Review]

Legend has it that Dim Sum is meant to touch your heart, some call it ‘sipping tea’. To me, it’s brunch on a sunday, chinese style with the folks and definitely with the special peeps (that includes you). The Cantonese in me normally shoots for the classic prawn, pork, prawn pork combos be it the dumplings, the cheung funs or the buns, however, the Taiwanese of me suggests that venturing out from the comfort zone once in a while, ain’t a bad thing.

Nahm [Invite]

Nahm Official site The Halkin SW1X 7DJ +44 (0) 20 7333 1234 Lunch £20pp  Dinner £60 pp Nahm is the only Thai restaurant in London to have a michelin sparkle around it’s neck. The restaurant is of course Chef David Thompson’s labour of love; Legend…

Giving away free copies of “The Rough Guide to Food”

The amazing people over at Rough guides recently launched a new ‘rough guide to food’ and they’ve been kind enough to offer LondonEater readers (yay, you) five free copies of the book. The Rough guide to Food aims to help average Joey Bloggs navigate their way through the…

Salt Yard: Rock and Roll [Review]

Salt Yard official site 54 Goodge St W1T 4NA 020 7637 0657 Tapas £6 – 8 each The moist potato paste in the salt cod fritters melted in my mouth with loads of umami goodness. The crunch in the crumbly shell, nice. I was led to…

John Torode’s ‘BEEF’ [cookbook review]

John Torode’s ‘BEEF’ £ 20 John Torode Published by Quadrille Publishing Ltd Quadrille kindly sent me a copy of John Torode’s BEEF to review/buzz/promote. I read through it and wrote up my first cookbook review, ever (yay). I was also kindly given permission to reproduce…

Lantana. A boy has to eat, breakfast. [review]

Lantana Breakfast £10 official blog I finally made a trip out to this much talked about cafe, and it was awesome. I need my breakfast, and this review is now a guest post on the blog A girl has to eat.  [Read the full review there…]

The Ledbury. Rocketing Stars. [Review]

Beetroot meringue, with a little bit of goats cheese. I’m running late. The Hammersmith and city line suddenly decided to pull a district, I’m starving and I should have worn something warmer. So when I got off at Westbourne Grove station, I ran. I ran like…

Previewing Whole foods in Hyde Park

So it’s six seven am on Monday. I’ve just opened my favourite excel spreadsheet and sipping down on the hard filter brew Vanessa makes for the bunch of us every morning. No it’s not. It’s Saturday afternoon as I write this. Well, it sort of…

[Guest post] Storming into Tsunami

Kang says: How’s your weekend going folks? Any issues with the clocks going forward? I’m doing a little post exchange with the story of how boys and girls need to eat. In this one, a girl has to eat lunch, japanese style. Hope you like…

Sign up for new BBC food show: Economy Gastronomy.

This trickled into my inbox yesterday and might be of interest to some of you. BBC Two are going to be filming a new food show called Economy Gastronomy. It’s aiming to be among the first food series to tackle the subject of the recession and  will…