***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…
***this restaurant has since closed down*** Pulia is a newcomer to the London scene, having opened their first site outside of Italy only a few months ago in one of the capital’s main food hotspots, Borough Market. I had walked past one day with Amber and always meant to come back to try their offering. The occasion presented itself when, via Twitter, I was invited over for a sunday lunch after missing out on a bloggers’ evening while on holiday….
After my efforts experimenting with Grana Padano and blogging two recipes as well, I was chuffed to hear Francesco Mazzei had picked me, as well as four other bloggers, to go through to the next round for the #GPTopChef competition. Not really knowing what I was letting myelft into, I accepted the invitation to join the ‘challenge’ set for Saturday 17 October in a cookery school in South West London. The day before, after lunch, we all received an email…
Grana Padano front and centre of a couple of mouthwatering recipes created for the Top Chef competition
I have vague memories of drinking ‘caffe’ d’orzo’ (barley coffee) when I was a kid in Italy; I remember the tin it used to come in, the smiley face of the kid on the label and the strong, warming aroma it had. I never drank it in my adult years and it slowly faded from my memory. A few days ago I was sent a new product to try and indeed, it was caffe’ d’orzo from an Italian roaster based…