The Perfectionists’ Café in Heathrow was apparently ‘Inspired by Heston Blumenthal’s In Search of Perfection TV series, in which he examined every aspect of our favourite dishes in order to make them as delicious as possible’. I liked the look of it as I meandered my way through Heathrow Terminal 2 looking for someone to sustain…
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Sunday Roast at the Golden Fleece in York
The Golden Fleece in York looks like, and is, a Proper Old English Pub, the perfect place to take my friend Jennifer from Chicago to when we were on a day trip to York. I mean it was a Sunday and that means one thing to us lot this side of the pond, Sunday Roast…
Old Silk Mill serving Tasty Burgers in Derby
The Silk Mill Ale and Cider House in Derby seems to be a pretty decent place to stop off for a pint of beer and a decent plate of pub food. They have a whole lot of tasty sounding stuff on the menu. The menu seems to get updated quite often so even since I…
Munching on Maxines Mobile Pizza at Bakewell Farmer’s Market
At the Bakewell Farmer’s Market I found myself at Maxine’s Mobile Pizza having been stopped in my tracks by a Chalkboard advertising some sort of delightful food to be sampled, in this case Hand Made Wood Fired Pizza, and a mobile pizza oven from which the smell of freshly cooking pizza was drawing a small crowd. Maxine’s Mobile…
Sampling some South African Street Food with a Bunny Chow from the the ‘Now Now Company’
At the East Midlands Chilli Festival in Newark Nottinghamshire we met up with the NowNow Food Company to eat some of their Bunny Chow. A Bunny Chow is a hollowed out bread bowl commonly filled with curries, which was the case here on the NowNow stall where they had a Durban Chicken Curry, they also had a Bobotie filling…
Wild Caper at Brixton Market
Wild Caper in the Brixton Market is a small café that is mainly selling Eastern Mediterranean food. I was really tempted to try some of their Meze dishes especially the ‘Meatballs Saganaki’ essentially Beef meatballs with a tomato sauce and melted Kaseri cheese for £5. We also really fancied the Pork Belly wrap for £4.75 which was a…
Cafe Caribbean at Spitalfield Market
Café Caribbean in old Spitalfields market is the sort of place that you hope to find when hunting for lunch. The counter is filled with a whole plethora of delicious looking vats of Caribbean food. It looks homemade and authentic, it IS homemade and authentic, and in the end it tasted homemade and authentic. Their website tells…
The Ginger Pig – A Sausage Roll recommendation followed by Chops and Bacon
The Ginger Pig has six butchers shop across London all supplied from their North Yorkshire farm land. Tim Wilson says on their website that “At the heart of everything we do is good animal husbandry and welfare; livestock that is looked after well in the field will simply taste better on the plate”. That is…
Boston Sausage at Borough Market – Super Sausage Burgers
Boston Sausage have been trading at London’s Borough Market since 2007 and can be found there six days a week. Their hot food stand where they serve up a choice of sausage baps and burgers is in the Green Market right next to the Southwark Cathedral grounds. It gets pretty busy later in the day down…
BunnyChow at Shoreditch Box Park in East London
The Boxpark in Shoreditch is one of those places that might sound a bit naff but turns out to be a really clever idea. It is billed as a Pop Up Mall and is essentially a small shopping complex made out of stripped, refitted recycled shipping containers hence the name boxpark. It started life in 2011 and is…
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