Musings on food and drink from the travelling foodies.
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 Italy, Leeds, food heroes on May 16th, 2010
Superstar foodie chef Jamie Oliver finally has a presence in Leeds. The most northerly outpost of his Italian restaurant chain has finally opened in Leeds, with surprisingly little fanfair. There has been a lot of buzz in the foodie blogs about when it might open and after a week of ’soft launch’ to get things [...]
Posted in Leeds, Wine, gastro pubs on May 10th, 2010
As a long standing customer of Virgin Wines, we’d got some tickets for their first tasting event in Leeds. I’ve long been a fan of Virgin Wines and I love the different wines and hard to find vintages they have on offer. So we planned a full Troffers outing (apart from Jill who was in [...]
Posted in curry on May 9th, 2010
Curry night this month was at one of the oldest curry houses in Bradford….and it was great. Tess wrote about the International a few months ago so I was looking forward to our visit. Starting with lamb chops, my staple for our curry nights, the flavours were fabulous, not too spicy so I enjoyed every bite…I [...]
Posted in London on May 9th, 2010
Just before we caught the train back up Norf we decided to check out the St Pancras Grand in the newly renovated St Pancras Station which now is the Euro Star hub. This is a very special place with the huge glass and steel roof, giant statue of Man and Woman embracing a truly magnificent [...]
Posted in London on May 9th, 2010
We had some time to kill on Saturday morning so we decided to take the short walk to Covent Garden. This is a really great market as the pics show lots to see and taste………. As we had had breakfast we just took pics but were wonderfully entertained by live musicians whilst we meandered around. [...]
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 home cooking on May 6th, 2010
A quick run out to Sand Hutton Asparagus Farm netted a few bundles of green joy.
The asparagus season lasts but a few weeks in the UK - and it finishes on the 21st June this year, to be precise. When British asparagus spears are in season they are the best in the world and they [...]
Posted in Leeds on May 6th, 2010
La Grillade has been on the Leeds restaurant scene for many years. As other restaurants have come and gone it remains - a stalwart of French cooking along with Sous le Nez (assuming they are still going too). Oddly, it’s a place that I wouldn’t actively consider for dinner and I don’t really know why. [...]