Category Archives: food

Kopi is a new coffee subscription service which delivers a new gourmet coffee to your door every month. They asked me to try out their January blend, and of course I was happy to oblige. The coffee comes nicely packaged … Continue reading →

It’s obviously a sign of getting old that my idea of a really fun Saturday night these days is having the luxury of time to spend hours making something interesting for dinner. I got a pasta machine for my birthday … Continue reading →

I’m kind of a Masterchef fangirl – in fact, I love any cookery show on TV – so when Handpicked Media extended an invite to a cookery demo night with last year’s champ Tim Anderson I jumped at it. I … Continue reading →

Spuntino has been on my to-try list for ages, and what better time to go for it than on my birthday weekend? It’s been getting rave reviews since it opened last year for its speakeasy-come-diner brand of American comfort food, … Continue reading →

I got some brilliant cookbooks for Christmas – Simon Hopkinson’s The Vegetarian Option and Simon Rimmer’s The Accidental Vegetarian. I mix-n-matched them for tonight’s dinner: Hopkinson’s pesto aubergine with Rimmer’s pan hegarty (boulangere potatoes with cheese on, basically). (Apologies for … Continue reading →

I’m definitely feeling quite sluggish and podgy after an indulgent Christmas, so it’s – cliched – time for some healthy eating. I got some lovely recipe books as gifts so I’ve been leafing through and making notes of some to … Continue reading →

If there’s one thing I like doing it’s learning about new things, and I like it even more when it’s booze-and-yummy-food-fuelled. To this end, we spent a fabulously enjoyable evening at Protein’s Shoreditch HQ last Tuesday, at their first Alcohol … Continue reading →

Back to San Fran posts, even though the holiday feels like a long time ago now… A large part of our reason for visiting SF was the food and drink – it’s known for great Mexican food as well as … Continue reading →

Where better to start talking about San Francisco than with breakfast? There’s a real brunch culture in SF, with nearly every cafe on our nearby Fillmore Street full to bursting with chatting couples or people on their laptops come 9am … Continue reading →

I’m probably in the minority here — both for talking about Chr*stmas already, and in proclaiming my love for Brussels sprouts. Not just good for a festive dinner, sprouts are also great spiced in Indian and Chinese-style dishes, or grilled … Continue reading →