Musings on food and drink from the travelling foodies.
Posted in Spain, restaurants on Aug 31st, 2009
We were kindly invited to spend a few days with our dear friends Peter and Kathy Walsh at their lovely apartment(amazing views across the yacht filled harbour) at Cala Moli/Na Macaret in Menorca.
They organised the weather as well, every day was gorgeous and started with a visit to a tiny cafe bar caled Es Raco(The Corner) [...]
Posted in Leeds, Pudsey, restaurants on Aug 31st, 2009
Harvey Nichols lunch never fails to impress, tuna carpaccio with tabasco tomato, spicy lamb kebabs with twice fried chips and fresh peas with pancetta and creme fraiche…yummy.. all accompanied by a gin and tonic and a lovely bottle of Chablis prem cru.
Traditional eve before holiday dinner was had at Diva Italiana in Pudsey, the grilled [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 25th, 2009
Sunday afternoon in London (prior to BSP, yay) was spend in the sublime surroundings of River Cafe. Old boys Jamie and Hugh and fabulous, well used cookbooks have meant I was desperate to visit this restaurant come what may.
A good 30 minutes by tube, the River Cafe is well worth the trek out to Hammersmith [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 25th, 2009
The oldest and the best.
A fabulous selection of local and imported oysters were on offer in the tourist honeypot of Harrod’s Food Hall. I would recommend a visit if you’re in the vicinity as there’s not many places in London (or elsewhere) that offer the old fashioned oyster experience.
Ironically the US does it a lot [...]
Posted in London, Uncategorized on Aug 25th, 2009
Our hotel for the London weekend was The Covent Garden Hotel. Unlike many counterparts named after locations that are situated miles away from them, this hotel is right in the heart of Covent Garden. Part of the small boutique chain Firmdale Hotels, the Covent Garden is superb from start to finish.
With uber cool modern/classic eclectic [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 22nd, 2009
Last weekend we travelled to London for a series of gastronomic and entertainment experiences, the first of which was Angela Hartnett’s restaurant Murano in Mayfair. You might remember Angela from the early series of Hell’s Kitchen when Gordon Ramsay fronted the kitchen up.
She’s worked with the inimitable Ramsay for many years - in fact he [...]
Posted in Outdoors, restaurants on Aug 13th, 2009
We have been trying to go see the 100 statues created by Anthony Gormley entitled “Another way” and placed on Setfton Sands near Liverpool for at least a couple of years and as the England cricket team seriously underperformed we had the Tuesday(last day of the Headingley Ashes Test) free. As Tess, Tony and Pat had taken the day off [...]
Just a quick note to praise East in Pudsey. A couple of mates and I had a quick early dinner before watching the mighty Leeds United(haha) play Darlington. We shared 2 starter dishes, the obligatory lamb chops and chicken livers both were excellent. Mains were a lamb bhuna, special hyderabadi(chicken and lamb) and keema achari. [...]
Posted in Outdoors on Aug 9th, 2009
Tony & I had to visit the Salt Box Gallery in Helmsley to collect a painting we had bought on a previous visit. It was part of an exhibition so they asked us to leave it there a while for others to enjoy. It would have been remiss not to have visited the Feversham Arms [...]
Posted in Leeds, restaurants on Aug 6th, 2009
We were lucky enough to be invited to a lecture about the Ashes last 100 years or so. Christopher Martin-Jenkins MBE was entertaining and provided us with numerous facts and figures as well as a selection of footage from Headingleys memorable moments such as Boycotts hundredth hundred in 1977.
Sir Geoffrey Boycott actually turned up and was [...]