Pasta mon amour I love pasta, no secret. This blog is entitled to it, and I am from Napoli, where pasta is a staple of pretty much most meals (right, maybe not breakfast). I usually prefer to cook or even make my own pasta, and I feel that is a bit of a waste for me to order pasta in a restaurant because it is such an easy task for me to do at home. There’s so much more to…
A dish that brings back memories of home.. As a southern Italian, I grew up eating plenty of vegetable dishes using locally grown aubergines, peppers and courgettes. One of the dishes which recently I have often recreated in our London summer is a classic pasta dish whose origins are said to be from Nerano, on the Amalfi coast. Of such dish, many variations of course exist, but the main star of the show is always the courgette, with its beautiful…
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…
***this restaurant has since closed down*** A few months ago I stumbled upon a curiously named Instagram account; it sounded ‘milanese’ to me, and they had some photos of food, of course, and an empty railway arch. I started following them and became quite interested in their progress into a fully-fledged Italian deli in East London. Being a little out of the way for us, southerners, I had not managed to visit yet since their opening in September. So when…
A few months ago I was reading Mrs Marmite Lover’s blog and stumbled upon her mention of a newly launched Italian online deli. Since my regular online deli (of which I had been a customer for 9 years) recently kind of annoyed me thanks to their lack of customer service, making me stop buying from them but I was longing for some fresh mozzarella, proper one, and similar home grown product. I decided to trust Mrs Marmite’s opinion and…