Musings on food and drink from the travelling foodies.
Posted in Dorset, restaurants on Jul 10th, 2010
Been a tad engrossed by the new job, hence the lack of posts so apologies for that. Normal service will, I hope, be resumed with this post.
Last week saw me doing a fair bit bit of UK-wide travelling and the most noteworthy was a trip to the glorious South coast. In particular, Poole in Dorset. [...]
Posted in Leeds, restaurants on Jun 9th, 2010
Having read Phil’s post we decided to give La Grillade a visit as it must be over 10 years since we last visited La Grillade at it’s original site. The place has been done up since it’s return which one would expect and is very much low key French brasserie. It was a Wed evening [...]
Posted in York, restaurants on May 30th, 2010
A work/social meeting last week in York was made all the more pleasurable by lunch at J Bakers. This fabulous York restaurant has been well documented in this blog, but I really do feel it’s worth another mention.
Tucked away on Fossgate, it really is one of those places that the locals know all about and [...]
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 Leeds, restaurants on May 5th, 2010
I met some colleagues for dinner at Oulton Hall for dinner, didn’t know what to expect as this place although very grand can be very hit and miss. The bars have been updated and I must say are now upmarket country house and stylish. Champgne bar is pretty cool. The dining room is very classic [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Leeds, restaurants on May 5th, 2010
D and I decided to have a night at The Calls hotel to check it out before we put up guests there for our 25th celebrations. The hotel is small and boutique style, everything is just spot on as you would expect, big comfy bed, great bathroom and expensive tioletries etc etc
We met J&L for [...]
Posted in Leeds, restaurants on May 5th, 2010
Dinner with a colleague in Leeds, we fancied Sashimi and over the years the best in town by a mile has been at Chino Latino’s. The restaurant was reasonably busy for a Wednesday night which as always is a good sign. A couple of Singha beers to start and then it has to be Champagne [...]
Posted in Italy, restaurants on Apr 2nd, 2010
After the launch of Ryanair’s new routes from Leeds Bradford we decided on a long weekend in northern Italy flying to Treviso. Tony and Pat joined us for the trip taking in Venice and then driving up to the Dolomites for some end of season skiing with some memorable foodie moments along the way. This [...]
Posted in North Yorkshire, York, restaurants on Mar 26th, 2010
Even though I’m not officially working at the moment, I am managing to get out and about and this week is no exception - I had a long standing lunch arranged with a business associate in York at J Baker’s. This restaurant has been much recommended and it’s devilishly hard to get in there as [...]