Category: Food
Fast food
Sometimes you really need a kebab. We wanted the best Turkish kebab London has to offer, so we trekked to the other side of Town to get one. We …
Recipes
I’m cooking up some pork with lentils for a dinner party on Saturday. The recipe calls for boiling them in water, but we can do better than that. I’m …
Recipes
Yesterday I made a much-improved version of my chicken in cider recipe. Regular followers of whatinterests.davidstrange.net will have seen some blurry pictures of it cooking and on my plate. …
General
I’ve been invited on a beef butchery course. Wehay! Won’t that just be a real hoot? It is not until October, though, so tales of hacking up cows will …
Rest of England
Heston Blumenthal’s boozer just next-door to the Fat Duck provides keenly-priced, hearty classics cooked with far more skill and attention to detail than you’ll find in almost any other …
Rest of England
I am not sure I know enough superlatives to write a review of the Fat Duck. Can you just assume that unless I say anything to the contrary each …
Rest of England
Very much in the spirit of Brillat-Savarin, tonight’s meal demonstrated that the limits of pleasure are yet to be defined or reached. My first visit to the Fat Duck …
General
Supermarket beef burgers. They are not beef burgers in the same sense that they are in the US or the UK; not meat plus filler but pure meat. They …
London
I’ve travelled all over London in search of better pizza, but La Porchetta, we were at the Holborn branch last night, is yet to be beaten. They’ve smartened up …
London
I’ve reviewed Hawksmoor (London’s best meat restaurant) before here and here. The basic message is that it is a top meat establishment. This will not be another review as …