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…
Kappacasein – A Total Grilled Cheese Fest
This weekend I headed over to Borough Market to hunt down some essential and perhaps not so essential tasty morsels. Even before I left I knew exactly which stall I was going to be starting off at for that pre-shopping snack! That Stall of choice, was the Kappacasein stall, which as always was located right on the…
Pâté Moi – Mushroom Pate at the Borough market
It is not often that I get that excited about things that do not focus on Meat or bacon related products, but on occasion I take an exeption and one of those is the Pâté Moi, a Mushroom Pate that I found in London’s Borough Market. It is described as being “hand made with organic mushrooms from…
Leftover Snack inspired by Nigel Slater’s latest book “eat”
It is around this time of the year that the fridge is full of leftovers and we are trying to eat our way through the freezer so that we can restock with more farmers market goodies. I was rummaging around in the back of the fridge and found a solitary chorizo link and a rather…
The Flavour Thesaurus – Chicken and Bell Peppers
The Flavour Thesaurus by Nikki Segnit is one of the best books about food and cooking that I have purchased this year, and to judge whether that statement has any value perhaps I should mention I have bought more than 50 other cookbooks (so far). In essence it is not really a cookbook per se, no…
A Healthy Breakfast? at the Duke of Gloucester in Crewe
I am not really one to pass much comment on your everyday establishments in the world of the pub chain but on occasion I do find myself frequenting one of their members and every so often I find that they manage to surprise me. Last week was such a day when I found myself over near to Crewe and…
Union at Bakewell – Serving ‘Spanish – Italian – Streetford’
This past weekend I was over in Bakewell visiting their Christmas Market which was just running over that weekend. When we headed up to the square behind the co-op where the food stalls were, well I will be honest I was not feeling too hopeful, that was until I picked up a Flyer from the…
Pitt Cue Co -The Cookbook “Hog Mac ‘n’ Cheese”
Pitt Cue Co in SoHo London have only been going for a couple of years and I managed to get my hands on a copy of their new cookbook recently and as per usual I spent quite a lot of time drooling over the different recipe ideas. I haven’t eaten there yet and now I…
Nottingham Food Blog Digest Nov 2013
The best thing that we found this month were the Gourmet Pizzas at Oscar and Rosies. This is a new pop up pizza joint on Carrington Street based out of the Picnic Basket Café. They have a quite amazing crust and the best topping I have tried is the ‘Meat Sweats’ which is a lot…
At the Fleece – Club Sandwich Hybrid vs Full English
I have sampled the fare at The Golden Fleece on Mansfield Road in Nottingham a few times this year while out food hunting for The Nottingham Food Blog (Read More Here). In those visits we had sampled the burgers, which really are very good. Today though we just had to try something different, we can’t…
My Food Hunt 