Musings on food and drink from the travelling foodies.
Posted in Italy, Leeds, food heroes on May 16th, 2010
Superstar foodie chef Jamie Oliver finally has a presence in Leeds. The most northerly outpost of his Italian restaurant chain has finally opened in Leeds, with surprisingly little fanfair. There has been a lot of buzz in the foodie blogs about when it might open and after a week of ’soft launch’ to get things [...]
Posted in Leeds, food heroes, restaurants on Feb 19th, 2010
Somebody asked me a really good question last night at my leaving do at Kendell’s Bistro.
“Come on then — which is the best restaurant in Leeds??”
Now I have to say that I found answering the question definitively very difficult. It’s not that we’re overly blessed with amazing restaurants on every street corner. Far from it. [...]
Posted in food festival, food heroes on Oct 11th, 2009
This is the last post of our weekend in Norwich and by pure coincidence on our recent visit it was the last days of the Norfolk Food Festival. Foodie events had been organised over the county starting from the 19th of September and culminated in Norwich with the mighty ‘Battle of the Bangers’ and [...]
Posted in Outdoors, food heroes, restaurants on Sep 11th, 2009
After a great weekend we awoke on Monday to find the sun cracking the flags. D suggested we make the most of the weather and have a trip out to Whitby, what a great idea! Off we set with Chester in the back of the car, quick stop at Gilchrist’s for a sausage sarnie for [...]
Posted in Cornwall, food heroes on Jul 24th, 2009
Every year Pat, Tony, Tess and Dawn get to St. Agnes in Cornwall and every other year Chester and I tag along, this year Jenny and Rob also joined in. The drive to Cornwall can be difficult sometimes but all 3 cars did pretty well this year. Pat, Tony and Tess went down a day earlier [...]
Posted in Cornwall, food heroes on Jul 11th, 2009
In true J&L ‘better late than never’ style, it’s time to share some experiences and update our posts. The above pictures were taken on my camera phone at Jamie Oliver’s ‘Fifteen’ at Watergate bay in Cornwall. We were invited to a wedding during the last week of May and actually made our reservation for Fifteen [...]
Posted in Leeds, food heroes on Jul 3rd, 2009
Phil was invited along with a few other local foodie bloggers to interview James Martin as part of the Leeds Loves Food Festival. However at the last minute Phil was called to an important business meeting so he despatched Dawn and I to represent The Globetroffers.
So on the hottest day of the year we [...]
Posted in York, food heroes on May 17th, 2009
This is the final and fourth part of the York trilogy which when passing big Betty’s the window display did it’s job and enticed Linda to the selection of handmade macaroons. Four flavours were on offer … Pistachio, Lemon, Chocolate and Raspberry. The presentation boxes were excellent and these would make a great gift, on [...]
Posted in York, cheese, food heroes on May 17th, 2009
Prior to our lunch at Jeff Bakers we stopped by at the Hairy Fig (click for link) which also on Fossgate offers a fine selection of regional and specialist foods. The Rosemary ciabatta is one of our favourite breads and we also got some of the fresh figs, shepherds purse cheese and Morecambe bay shrimps [...]
Posted in Hotels, Italy, food heroes on Jan 27th, 2009
I think I’ve mentioned to everyone that I have a good mate who’s involved with The Well Hung Meat Company. This Devon based business supply some of the finest organic meat in the country and we had one of their turkeys at Christmas and can attest to the quality of the product. Have a look [...]