No secret I love South East Asian food, and no secret I am a fan of MasterChef. Thus a combination of these two makes up a perfect evening in my books. With my good friend Mondo Mulia I joined a Malaysian Master Class at Chi Kitchen with none other than Ping Coombes, the super friendly winner of Master Chef 2014. Chi Kitchen is a recently opened Pan Asia restaurant within Debenhams premises in Oxford Street, owned by the same group as…
Having a dog changed my life. It really did, in a way that I would not have expected; I did not grow up with pets and was not interested in having one. It was @bmcboy that decided at one point some three years ago to try having a dog, since he grew up in the countryside with Labradors. He choose a breed that would be suitable not only for a first time owner like me, but also to a small London…
Since watching the latest MasterChef the Professional last November and pining for Danilo Cortellini I had been hoping to try his food at some point. In fact, as he is the Head Chef at the Italian Embassy in London, it is privilege of our ambassador to eat his food every day, but kind of difficult for everyone else. When I met Danilo a couple of months back, he mentioned he was planning a series of pop ups and it is at one…
For its newest Limited Edition launch, Nespresso presents two Pure Origin Grands Crus born in the contrasting coffee growing communities of Lake Kivu, Rwanda and Chiapas, Mexico. I have never visited Ruanda, but I have been to Mexico and I love the country, which I would like to visit further in the future. I was therefore keen to try Nespresso’s latest cru dedicated to the country. I love the sleeves, on both crus: colourful, stylish and very much in line with…
Day 1: Barletta – Silvi – Spello – Assisi, 490km All good things must come to an end, or so they say. It was time to come back to Blighty for the last leg of our summer road trip. We packed up and left a sunny Barletta on a monday morning, hitting the motorway almost immediately, still surrounded by olive groves, bright sun shining above us and the Adriatic sea a constant and distant companion to our right. Motorway…