Category: Food & Drink

Out to Lunch

Some good Italian and French restaurants in London close in August – so like Paris.

Baltic Booze

Cast your mind back to 1608. James I was on the English throne – the first Stuart monarch – the Moores were living at Barmeath and the Bellews at Lisrenny.

Olivier Salad

Look at Wikipedia, actually don’t I have done it for you, and there is a long list of comestibles and drinks named after people. Only a few are familiar today: peach Melba, tournedos Rossini, beef Wellington, oysters Rockefeller, beef Carpaccio, omelette Arnold Bennett, Bellini cocktails and you will know others.

Blueberry Hill

More and more fruit and veg is grown in the UK. I wash foreign fruit because it is widely accepted the pickers piss on it. I don’t wash blueberries from Harry Hall’s farm in Surrey. I put them on yogurt and muesli most mornings.They are just about the only healthy food I eat; low in… Continue reading Blueberry Hill

Marmalade Overdrive

If you want a nip of whisky for breakfast on a chilly morning this is the obvious choice.

Fish and Ships

It is rare to see potted shrimps on a restaurant menu but the sort of clubs I go to invariably have them on their menus. I mean the sort of clubs where one eats in the coffee room, although sometimes it’s the only room where coffee isn’t served.