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Junk food can be cooked well or mind-buggeringly badly.

I love fish and chips, a fantastic meal which suits the requirements for a quick lunch very well. With mushy peas, obviously. Yesterday my local establishment, the Fish and Grill on the market square in Woolwich, shocked and appalled me with the shit they had the temerity to serve. I’ve been there before and had [...]


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Appetising soup from Finland

The partner is just back from Finland were they sell the most appealingly-named soup you could wish to try: Red soup Yellow soup And, most thrillingly, white soup. Yum.


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Sadly not ‘free from’ taste

Not being able to eat wheat puts a dampener on enjoying food. All prepared food seems to contain wheat. Supermarkets these days have ‘free from’ aisles, which supposedly have wheat-free treats. Normally ‘free from’ means free from flavour. Now, the ‘priced like Harrods’ corner shop in my housing development have started selling wheat-free cakes; if [...]


The culinary crimes of Serge et Co.

You could only enjoy Serge et co. if you had a spoon fetish; they kept bringing them and taking them away with incredible frequency. For everyone else, it is a little restaurant of horrors. When visiting Strasbourg for a night we decided to visit this restaurant as it had got good reviews and sounded like [...]


There may be worse things in the world but not that much worse

We are in France to pick up cheap Champagne and stopped off at the hamburger chain Quick for a much-delayed lunch. I thought I was so hungry I could eat anything, how wrong I was. The food was totally, stomach-churningly, soul-meltingly vile. I can hardly bring myself to think about it again so utterly nauseating [...]


Asadal review

This Korean restaurant lives underground right next door to Holborn tube station. The decor and location are perhaps the most interesting things about it as on our trip we found the food to be woefully tedious. We ordered a selection of meat, fish and vegetable dishes. The waitress tried her best to be informative, warning [...]

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