Musings on food and drink from the travelling foodies.
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2009
Attended a private business dinner for 8 ‘movers and shakers’ (god knows what I was doing there) on Wednesday evening. Although the food was of a high standard and fairly unremarkable, the setting wasn’t . The campus at Headingley is out of town and the site of the original Carnegie college. The dinner was held [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 28th, 2009
Quick pre cinema (Watchmen) dinner at Akbars - lamb chops, lamg and ginger balti, family garlic naan. Superb!!
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 22nd, 2009
The inaugural Globe Troffers Poetry Evening was held at Pat and Tony’s on Saturday 21st March. And what a great evening it was.
Our first foray into a cultural event (theatre trips aside) was a resounding literary success with more culture being thrown around than an evening with Melvyn Bragg.
The prose was nobly accompanied by rustic [...]
The sun was playing out good style this moning so we decided that we should get Chester into the back of the car, get the hood down, sunglasses on and set off. We decided to go over the moors past the Cow and Calf, scenic route to Burnsall. Burnsall was packed as everyone else must [...]
Film club last night. We opted to discuss the film over a curry. Appropriately enough, the film we were discussing was Slumdog Millionaire. I know, obvious.
One of the guys suggested Hansa’s and it’s been some time since I was last there and I have to say that it’s not a place I would have chosen [...]
Posted in Beer on Mar 11th, 2009
Feeling particularly parched after a long day of back to back meetings, I came upon The George Inn just off Borough High Street in London. On recommendation by my good friend Ian Street, I partook of a pint of the local George ale brew - which for a southern beer was remarkably smooth displaying a [...]
Posted in curry on Mar 10th, 2009
A full Globe Troffers team outing started with a pre theatre curry at the Aagrah which was super particularly as the price was £20 per head including a couple of three drinks! Linda and John shared a particularly good mixed seafood starter with Dawn and Phil’s Lamb Chops hitting the spot. Mains included Keema Makhani, [...]
Posted in Pudsey on Mar 10th, 2009
We hadn’t been to see Mattia and Masimo for a while so were looking forward to visiting them but wondered how busy Diva would be, credit crunch and all……….
Well it was pretty much full which is a great reflection for an out of town small restaurant.
We ordered the same meal, caprese skewers to start followed [...]
Apologies for the delay but to say thing are busy is the understatement of the year. We arranged a lunch and Rugby World cup jaunt for select 22 clients/colleagues. Leeds Rhino’s were trying to retain their World Club Challenge title against Manley of Australia but instead of doing the box at Elland Road, Dawn/Rosanna and [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 8th, 2009
At the book club in the Victoria and Family public house on Great George Street, Leeds.
First pint ordered (Leeds Best, from our very own Leeds Brewery) was off, so I opted for a pint of Stonehenge.
“It’s green, you know” warned the barmaid.
I didn’t mind I replied. But it wasn’t just a hint of emerald, oh [...]