***this restaurant has since closed down*** At this year’s Great British Menu Tom Aikens’ food looked amazing, and seeing his fellow chefs admire his dedication and his skills was impressive. When I had the pleasure to see Midsummer chef again and heard his stories about this year’s experience on GBM, I decided it was about time to try Tom’s food at his Michelin star Chelsea outpost. Booked over a month in advance, suddenly the time had come. Tired and still…
***this restaurant has since closed down*** I am on a roll. It seems I am visiting a Michelin starred restaurant a week at the moment, with terrible consequences for my waistline and my wallet. There is a reason, of course, which I am not able to share fully yet, however those brave enough to accompany me on those culinary trips are fully aware of. Valid reason, I assure you. Last week it was Hedone’s turn. Motivation to get on a…
I have been wanting to visit Midsummer House long before Daniel Clifford made it to the Great British Menu banquet last year, let alone after this year’s bang. Since eating his food at Ludlow Food Festival in 2011, to be precise. So when my friend @Kiwijoblogs announced one of her new years resolutions was to eat at a Michelin starred restaurant I asked her to join me on a day out to Cambridge to finally eat Daniel’s food in his…
Photo courtesy of Mondo Mulia We did it yet again. After the fun my sister @squadrilla75 and I had cooking for charity in November, we thought it would only be fair to cook together again. This time, we’d need to show case our very own home town’s food. Neapolitan food has somehow been fairly popular recently, in the guise of the ‘perfect pizza’ and Napoli has been the food destination of choice of many London food personalities. Photo courtesy…
A couple of months ago I attended an Alumni event hosted by a company I used to work for. At this fabulous event at the Tate Modern, we were given a goodie bag with a couple of novels and a box with some home made marshmallows. With this, a flyer which I found most interesting and unusual in such an environment (‘high finance’, as the title of one of the books in the bag). Andrew Kojima, Master Chef finalist, was…