Musings on food and drink from the travelling foodies.
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 28th, 2010
Firstly apologies to all as we have been out of order for not regularly posting. Trying to catch up is always daunting so we hope you don’t mind that we have just given short comments on The Year So Far mainly re the places just so we can get up to date. We can’t mention [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 28th, 2010
A busy week and not much time to catch up so G suggested a night away, after trying to book our usual haunts I was beginning to panic until I remembered reading an article in the Sunday Times about The Sychnant Pass Hotel, a hotel which allows man’s best friend to explore every room apart from and [...]
Posted in curry on Feb 27th, 2010
On Friday night I was asked By a friend to meet her at the International Curry house in Morley Street, this was a trip down memory lane for me as this was the place I ate my first curry 30 years ago. In fact when I used to go with the guys I was working [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 26th, 2010
Wednesday lunchtime this week was spent in the very agreeable company of my good friend Jon Moss. Jon had suggested we have a lunchtime catch up around his neck of the woods and so we plumped for the newest Michelin-starred gastro pub, The Pipe and Glass.
Situated just outside Beverley in East Yorkshire, the pub/restaurant has [...]
Posted in curry on Feb 24th, 2010
My last curry with my usual group was at the red Chilli a new restaurant on Leeds Road at Thornbury,I was looking forward to this for two reasons 1) I hadn’t had a curry for a while 2) I have been watching with interest the building alterations to change the premises into a curry house.
Well [...]
Posted in Breakfast, Leeds, Uncategorized on Feb 22nd, 2010
Back on the best breakfast in Leeds trail, I took the opportunity to sample the breakfast on offer at one of Leeds’ more stylish hotels, Malmaison. Nursing a monster hangover, I opted for the full English (it had to be done). At £13 a pop, it’s not cheap and I suppose it’s what’s to be [...]
Posted in Leeds, food heroes, restaurants on Feb 19th, 2010
Somebody asked me a really good question last night at my leaving do at Kendell’s Bistro.
“Come on then — which is the best restaurant in Leeds??”
Now I have to say that I found answering the question definitively very difficult. It’s not that we’re overly blessed with amazing restaurants on every street corner. Far from it. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 18th, 2010
It was half term and my sister was coming to stay for a few days and to celebrate this, we decided to have our very own ‘Come dine with me challenge’. Now this is a programme I don’t see very often (honest), but I have seen it and it’s usually pretty good car crash telly [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 15th, 2010
Taking advantage of the time off work, I planned a trip down to Brighton last week, primarily to see my favourite band British Sea Power. And along the way, sample some of the culinary delights of Brighton whilst in town. And although we were only in town for one night, we thought it would be [...]
Stag weekends aren’t usually famous for the culinary exploits and to be fair this one is no different. However, we did unearth a couple of local Geordie gems that were more than adequate for the soaking up of the copious quantities of alcohol that is par for the course for a night out in Newcastle.
At [...]