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Welcome Italia, Royal Agricultural Halls

Welcome Italia, Royal Agricultural Halls

Welcome Italia is the event organised by The Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the UK dedicated to all food lovers that wish to discover and explore the best of Italian Food & Beverage. For us expats in London, the fair has now become a yearly event to try out some regional food, meet friends and colleagues and feel a little bit nostalgic too, because we can find products that we only usually buy back home.. from groceries to pasta…

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Konditor & Cook Summer Collection is here

Konditor & Cook Summer Collection is here

Ice cream and cake at Konditor & Cook Last week, after work, I met @bmcboy and our toddler son and went to the launch of Konditor & Cook’s summer collection, Cool For The Summer. Their original shop in Waterloo is – or was and will be again – our local. Right by my favourite gym ever, we usually go and pick up some of their delicious brownies for a treat. They recently refurbished the venue to remove the savoury /…

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London Pizza Festival 2018

London Pizza Festival 2018

The Pizza festival is back After a year’s hyatus (I was busy with a 4 months old baby after all) I was back at Daniel Young‘s London Pizza Festival, held as usual in the former (former! shocking) car park of Borough Market on a yet again hot and sunny day in May. This year Daniel asked me to help out with the festival guest of honour, none other than pizza star Gino Sorbillo, who flew in especially from Napoli for…

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Bord Bia Spirit of Sharing

Bord Bia Spirit of Sharing

The role of Bord Bia, the Irish Food Board, is to act as a link between Irish food, drink and horticulture suppliers and existing and potential customers throughout the world. Their objective is to develop markets for Irish suppliers and to bring the taste of Irish food to more tables world-wide. Welcome to the Embassy of Ireland in London Pastabites was invited to attend their yearly Spirit of Sharing event (now in its third year) at the Embassy of Irelend…

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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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