Blink and you’ll miss it! Indeed, I had to ask a friend to explain where O’ver was, as even driving past each afternoon, I had not even noticed this new, bright and a little anonymous pizzeria that opened less than two months ago on Southwark Street. Combining the very best regional ingredients with traditional recipes, ‘O ver is the first restaurant in the UK to use the unique ingredient of Pure Sea Water. Living near Waterloo, pizza and ice cream is…
“One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast.” I love a good breakfast, and what better way to start a working day by treating one self to one of the City’s varied breakfast tables? It is now become a habit for me, and an excuse to see friends and colleagues. Here is my pick of the best in the Square Mile or thereabout. Special thanks to my breakfast partners in crime, especially regulars such…
***this restaurant has since closed down*** Since a fairly shocking TV programme by chef and eco warrior Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall a few years ago, we have stopped buying and eating battery chicken and eggs. It is not that easy to eat out and find out where the chicken comes from and if it is effectively free range, unless we are in high end establishments that really care for their products and sourcing. The opening of H.en in Isligton therefore caught my…
Based around the values of craftsmanship, sustainability, urban renewal, good honest artisan food and real passion, Mercato Metropolitano is set to be the choice destination for discerning food lovers all over the capital this summer. In the somehow pretentiously named area of SoBo (‘south of Borough’ which cannot disguise it is just north of the dreaded Elephant & Castle roundabout), lies the very recently opened Mercato Metropolitano, an Italian enterprise which is a market with food court for all things Italian and…
One of the most interesting Instagram accounts is Symmetrybreakfast. A relatively simple idea (but then why did I not have it myself?) of photographing their identical breakfast everyday has propelled Michael and Mark into the social media wall of fame. They have a ton of followers and they seem really nice guys as well (unfortunately I have not had a chance to meet them in person yet). Apart from mouth-watering photos of breakfast food, they really love the history of food. We…