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Campari Creates Cocktail Masterclass

Campari Creates Cocktail Masterclass

Campari brings the spirit of Milano’s Navigli to London’s canals A bright red canal boat is moored for a few days by Granary Square, and it is host to Campari’s very own floating bar, to promote the classic Italian drink and its versatility in cocktails and aperifs. The Navigli are an area of Milan famous for its bars, restaurants and nightlife, and the name itself means pretty much ‘canals’. Navigli are ocated southwest of the city’s historical centre.  The most…

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Joey O' Hare supper club
Salon Brixton pop up with Joey O’Hare

Salon Brixton pop up with Joey O’Hare

Fermentation Sensation As a fan of Masterchef, I have been lucky to meet a few contestants and eat their food and in some cases, become their friend too. One of these is the lovely Josephine O’Hare, whom I first met about a year ago when I attended her regular supper club Hare on the Hill in Clapham and loved it. Since then we’ve been in touch and have become friends, but I had not been able (for reasons obvious to…

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Pastabites tastes Picota Cherries
Taste Jerte Picota Cherries dinner at Iberica Victoria

Taste Jerte Picota Cherries dinner at Iberica Victoria

Summer fruit… Cherries hail the arrival of the summer season, and are one of my favourite fruit…Recently in fact, I have literally stuffed my face with plenty of them, here in London and when visiting Italy. In Sardinia for example, we picked up a local, small and dark variety which was absolutely fantastic, while often, especially when buying from big chain supermarkets, I end up disappointed with cherries that lack in flavour. Basically, varieties of cherry make a huge difference…

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Pastabites volunteers at Refettorio Felix
Volunteering at Refettorio Felix

Volunteering at Refettorio Felix

Refettorio Felix at St Cuthbert Refettorio Felix is Massimo Bottura’s latest charitable and sustainable effort, part of the project launched at the Milano expo a couple of years ago called Refettorio through the non profit Food for Soul. Massimo combined the fight against food waste with feeding those in needs, with the help of a bunch of partners (including Lavazza and Grundig) and volunteers as well as local established charitable soup kitchens. After the italian city and Rio, the London…

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Italian Cheese Week
Italian Cheese Week (15th – 22nd June) launch dinner at Manitoba Tigella

Italian Cheese Week (15th – 22nd June) launch dinner at Manitoba Tigella

Cheese… Italian cheese How could I resist an invite to the launch dinner for Italian Cheese Week? The event was held last week at Manitoba Tigella , a recently opened tigella restaurant in a slightly odd, liminal location between the British Museum and the destroyed Tottenham Court road crossing. I discovered tigella a couple of years ago during a weekend visit to Bologna; the are small discs of white bread, cut in half and traditionally filled with cheese and cold…

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