Musings on food and drink from the travelling foodies.
Posted in London on Sep 4th, 2010
This week another business trip to London led to a few notable foodie experiences…
First up was a cocktail party on the 40th floor of the gherkin in London. The shapely Foster-designed tower sits amidst the city of London’s more geometric buildings and definitely has the wow factor. And elieve me, from the 40th floor, the views are [...]
On a recent two day trip to London I experienced a real mix bag of food and drink.
Not for me the heady pleasures of the high roller in the West End of London or Knightsbridge. Oh no. I left the chrome finish S5 back in Leeds and headed for the big city. This time it [...]
Posted in London on May 9th, 2010
Just before we caught the train back up Norf we decided to check out the St Pancras Grand in the newly renovated St Pancras Station which now is the Euro Star hub. This is a very special place with the huge glass and steel roof, giant statue of Man and Woman embracing a truly magnificent [...]
Posted in London on May 9th, 2010
We had some time to kill on Saturday morning so we decided to take the short walk to Covent Garden. This is a really great market as the pics show lots to see and taste………. As we had had breakfast we just took pics but were wonderfully entertained by live musicians whilst we meandered around. [...]
Posted in London, curry, restaurants on May 9th, 2010
2nd night in London and D joined me. We met at Galvins which is on the 28th floor of the Park Lane Hilton. I would say there are 3 places on a par to view London, Vertigo(Tower 42 in The City), The London Eye and Galvins. The most stylish and sumptuous is Galvins.
The Galvin’s bloody [...]
Posted in London, restaurants on May 9th, 2010
A start of a 2 night extravaganza. I was in London on business and met with business associates both evenings. 1st night was dinner at Hakkasan a Michelin starred Chinese Restaurant in Soho.
This place is so cool it could be a night club, the bar is long with mood lighting and every type of licquer [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Leeds, London, North Yorkshire, gastropubs, pubs on Apr 12th, 2010
Aplogies for just a list but I am going to be a tad controversial……………………we need to make the site more interesting because it’s getting a bit like a food diary…………..
Memorable;
Breakfast at The Wolseley www.thewolseley.com
Fried haggis with duck egg the best breakfast I’ve ever had! Fantastic building with heritage, place to be seen, EXCELLENT SERVICE OLD STYLE. £20 [...]
On my trip to London this week, I fortuitously met up with my good friend Jon Moss who happened to be in town seeing a couple of clients. We’d both managed to finish our meetings early and met up in Covent Garden.
Jon insisted we had a coffee in ‘ London’s BEST coffee shop’. Now that’s [...]
The Crazy Bear, Fitzrovia.
I spent a few days on business in London and the first night I met some colleagues for dinner on recommendation at a Thai restaurant called The Crazy Bear. I did think that this was an unusual name but I cannot fully describe my surprise as on arrival the place looks like [...]
On my way back to Leeds after a long day of meetings in London, I was booked on a train that meant I had an hour or so to kill. Rather than wait to eat until I got on the train (these are dark days on the East Coast mainline), I opted to grab some [...]