1 & 2 June 2013
We’ve just finished reading Jojo Tulloh’s book, The Modern Peasant: Adventures in City Food. In it, in a quest to become more self-sufficient whilst still living in London, Tulloh learns, among other things, how to bake bread, keep bees, grow… Continue reading
Another week, another cookbook. And yet, this one is so wittily written, with such great do-able recipes that we couldn’t resist it. Written by Felicity Cloake, who writes a weekly column for The Guardian trying out ‘best of recipes’ (we… Continue reading
23 - 25 May 2013
One of the great things about the Chelsea Flower Show is that you don’t need to go to the actual event to benefit from it. It spawns all kinds of spin-offs and celebrations, such as the Chelsea Fringe: the Alternative… Continue reading
We went to celebrate a family birthday recently at the lovely Le Café Anglais and it reminded us how perfect it is for a Sunday lunch. There were lots of parents and grandparents there with kids (we didn’t have any… Continue reading
Closed Mondays. Tues-Frid: 8am-6pm; Sat-Sun: 10am-6pm
We went to visit the Monocle Café last week in Marylebone and came across the most delicious Swedish cinnamon buns. Being half-Swedish ourselves, we are more than a little picky about cinnamon buns, but these were pretty close to perfection… Continue reading
Mon - Fri: 11am - 5pm, but the best days are Thursday & Friday
If you live or work near the Barbican then you’ll know about Whitecross Street food market, but for us, it was a bit of a revelation. Fancy a delicious and truly satisfying lunch for a fiver or less? Italian? Mexican?… Continue reading
Start it the night before you want to eat it
This is the easiest, quickest, most fail-safe bread recipe in the world. That’s not the reason to make it however. The reason to make it is, it’s totally delicious. The recipe comes from Jim Lahey of the Sullivan Street Bakery… Continue reading
Soft opening on 1 April 2013. Opening hours: Mon - Fri, 7am - 4pm; Sat: 8am - 4pm & Sun: 9am - 3pm
Just when you thought Marylebone couldn’t get any hipper, along comes The Monocle Café, the first UK opening from the international magazine’s founder Tyler Brûlé (it’s a hot street – Andre Balazs is opening a hotel in the nearby old… Continue reading
We saw this recipe, part of Felicity Cloake’s ‘How to Cook the Perfect…’ series in The Guardian about a month ago, and immediately tore it out because though we’d never made it before, every time we’d eaten aubergine parmigiana, either… Continue reading
opens Mar 4th
The incessant chatter and hype about this new restaurant, the latest venture from the boys behind Spitalfields favourite Upstairs at The Ten Bells and private dining club The Clove Club, seems well founded. It opened earlier this week in Shoreditch… Continue reading
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