Musings on food and drink from the travelling foodies.
Posted in Italy, Leeds, Uncategorized on Jun 30th, 2009
Not a newcomer to this blog - in fact an old favourite.
A very welcome Monday night initiative from the entrepreneurial Pudsey Italian restaurant saw all the Troffers (minus John and Linda, still States-bound) convene for a chilled out Monday evening dinner.
Now I realise that Mondays are really meant for an early night and a cup [...]
Posted in Breakfast on Jun 28th, 2009
I’m on a quest. I’m looking for the very best breakfast in Leeds.
I realise that it’s not exactly Jason’s quest for the Golden Fleece, but it’s my challenge all the same. I’m reading some great reports about the breakfast offering of Leeds, so I thought I would start at a restaurant where the bar is [...]
Before the big London pitch last week, we were in need of sustenance as we’d not eaten - top tip, never go into a pitch on an empty stomach. We found the client address easily enough so we set about finding somewhere quick and easy for lunch as we only really had half an hour.
we [...]
Posted in Leeds, restaurants on Jun 23rd, 2009
Last Friday Jenny took a well deserved a day off so we decided to go for a nice lunch to Harvey Nicks as a treat. I arrived a little after Dawn and Jenny, they had already started on Pink Champagne, I started with a super Peroni Reserva. After a couple drinks we took a lovely table by [...]
Posted in Beer, North Yorkshire, Restaurant Pub/Hotel, gastropubs on Jun 22nd, 2009
Saturday saw us travel up to darkest North Yorkshire with friends Jon and Sam for a long awaited and well overdue dinner date.
Jon had booked the restaurant and so it was a lovely surprise when we found out we were heading for Ye Olde Punch Bowl Inn - the pub co-owned by Neil Morrisey of [...]
Posted in Leeds on Jun 20th, 2009
A sunny afternoon in Leeds and after a nice mooch round the city centre we fancied eating alfresco in the sun.
Funnily enough, Leeds is not blessed with lots of places where we can take advantage of the sunny weather and pretend we’re in Valencia (most unlike this city as we’re good at pretending we’re lots [...]
Posted in Outdoors, home cooking on Jun 20th, 2009
This is a sublime salad (with a nod to Rick Stein) that’s dead easy to do and works every time as a great side for anything meaty and rich.
It’s super quick to rustle up and consists of sliced tomatoes marinated with shallots (or red onions as here) dressed with a simple vinaigerette using extra virgin [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jun 17th, 2009
On a quick in and out meeting in Devon (Met Office, Exeter to be precise) I happened upon a fabulous little town just on the estuary of the River Exe.
Topsham is about 3 miles from Exter and the sort of place you’d probably travel past on the way to somewhere, well, more Cornish.
But we found [...]
Posted in Leeds, guilty pleasures on Jun 12th, 2009
Tess and I were invited by Pieroth wine to taste their new Summer wines, tasting is great but when we realised it was on a short cruise on the River Aire we couldn’t resist. Sun just about shining, we set off and chugged on down the Aire, I never knew there were so many lovely [...]
Posted in home cooking on Jun 7th, 2009
As G said, a hectic week..so when the kids said they were out for the night we decided to stay in….A quick trip to Bentley’s butchers in Pudsey where we purchased two French trimmed racks of Lamb(£11) for dinner and a couple of their award winning fabulous warm pork pies for a quick lunch snack …yummy!
On the way home we [...]