So I’ve been talking about my friend Sam blah-blah-blah for what seems like a million blog posts. Sorry, but it’s just that I’ve spent four of my last six weeks cooped up in a room with her for work and so you know, she’s been all up in my consciousness like I want to be … Read More →
xiao long bao Happy New Year my dearest favouritest readers in the whole wide bloggersphere! I truly hope you’re all hungunder, but if you’ve gone the other way and are hungover, I hope last night was worth the pain So all the bloggers out there seem to be doing “top 10 this and that of … Read More →
Update 18 June 2014: toptable Spotlight is now OpenTable Restaurant Offers. So we all know that Groupon is taking the world by storm. They came, they grew, they rejected Google’s $6 billion offer and they just keep gaining users. Why? Because don’t deny it, you are just as “kiasu” as me. I mean, it’s life, … Read More →
black truffle risotto with chicken jus reduction & brown butter The big freeze seems to have taken a strangle hold again. The temperatures earlier this week thrusted our month of November into London’s history books as being the coldest in over 30 years. We’re bundled up and trudging through the heaving (or trickling, depends where … Read More →
It stopped snowing this weekend and the temperatures rose to a balmy 5°C, so Panu and I decided to go check out the Winter Wonderland at Hyde Park. It was rather grey and gloomy though, and threatened to rain, but we focused on the task at hand: bratwursts, chips and hot chocolates! The Winter Wonderland is … Read More →
I have to say that Addie’s Thai has got to be the most obscure restaurant to find, ever. Despite its obvious address on Earl’s Court Road, the actual restaurant itself is obscure, and you know, not obscure like Hawksmoor on Commercial Road where their signage is black text on a black wall (I shit you … Read More →
So London had it’s coldest November day in over 30 years yesterday. We braved frostbite in our little feet and headed out anyway because over east at the Sunday Upmarket, there was promise of delicious flame-grilled chicken satay, the only way to have good traditional satay. My friend Van and her cousins set up their … Read More →
They call it the Finnish Christmas Fair, but really, who are they kidding? Aside from one table of Christmas ornaments and some obligatory Moomin product, it was nothing but a good old food fair, descended upon by all the Finns (and non-Finns) of London each year to stock up on Finnish snacks and goodies for … Read More →
I’ve never blogged twice in one day, ever. But I had the Hawksmoor kimchi burger (kimchi? In a burger? Who does that? Well, they do) for lunch and it would be a crime not to share it with you. You read that right, kimchi. In a burger. Oh and those there are beef dripping chips. You … Read More →
#1. I have a toptable account. I signed up when I first moved to London because my friends were telling me about this awesome website where you make restaurant reservations, get points for eating out and redeem free dinners with said points! 110% no strings attached. I started making all my reservations through toptable and … Read More →
I’m not going to write an epic report on this one because believe when I say many before me already have. I was slow. I was lazy. But last Saturday, I eventually got my hands on the Meatwagon cheese burger (recommended as the first burger I shalt try) and mother of all big flat meatballs, it … Read More →
There’s an awesome new Japanese restaurant on Charlotte Street. Wait, what? This news is so gargantuan I need to break it down. There’s an awesome new Japanese restaurant. Considering that if I had to pick one cuisine to take with me to a deserted island, I’d pick Japanese (the good and bad and sashimi and … Read More →
Firstly, if you actually find The Fish Place, you’re already one step ahead of the pack. Google maps will attempt to debunk your mission to consume a seafood dinner by sending you in the total opposite direction. Ignore it. Basically, just go to the London Heliport, get on the water’s edge, walk about 20 feet … Read More →
I often declare the fact that there is not much wisdom going on in my brain. I spend my days squeezing out every last ounce of brain juice for the purposes of this thing called work, and when home time rolls around, all I can compute is the conundrums of blonde vs blonder in The … Read More →
I’d heard a lot of good things about Uncle Lim’s chicken rice. Sold only on Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, people have trekked from far and wide for it. It was only a matter of time before I hauled my lazy ass down to East Croydon for a taste. What did I think? Pretty authentic, the … Read More →
Somewhere in the hustle and bustle that was September, London hosted a Design Festival. It would have completely blanked on my radar except for the fact that during this fortnight of avant-garde design, a little Finnish pop-up restaurant also well, “popped up”, and brought to my attention an event called Hel Yes! ~ showcasing Finnish … Read More →
Galbi beef It was 6°C max yesterday. For you Americans, that’s 42°F. For everyone else, that’s fucking cold for October. So what to have for lunch on a cold cold day? Korean BBQ, that’s what. *nommy nom nom nom* Mandu – fried dumplings stuffed with seasonal vegetables Kimchi Doenjang guk – soybean paste soup with … Read More →
City Caphê just opened in the city, around the corner from Bank. That makes two awesome new Asian places near my work! Things are surely looking up for winter. *squeeeeeeeeeeeee* So far I’ve only tried the traditional pork banh mi. It’s better than Banh Mi Bay. But yes I know I know, I still have … Read More →
So it appears that I’ve fallen a tiny bit behind on my posting, because yes, for a control freak like myself, a week in the behind is a lot in the behind. I had grandiose plans to catch up on my blogging over the weekend but instead, I went and learned a new word. Dictionary.com’s Word … Read More →
Once in a little while, there emerges a restaurant so painfully appealing that a mere glance at its menu induces a profound alteration in your saliva glands, rapidly causing them to produce colossal amounts of drool. The overflow of drool can be quickly averted with intense lip licking or if that is simply not enough, … Read More →
Have you ever experienced the moment, the exact moment when you realised that you had a problem? The micro-split-second in time when the penny drops. Because for those of you who’ve ever had a problem, you all know that it doesn’t matter how much anyone else tells you you have a problem, the penny just … Read More →
Don’t ever say I don’t love you guys! Because I love y’all so much (and because I know you want to win a meal to celebrate London Restaurant Festival), American Express and I are offering tickets for my readers to a special Festival Event – the American Express 10-10-10 – worth an amazing £200! American … Read More →
From confit to crème brulee, manuka honey to miso, grouse to gravalax, London’s restaurants offer a delectably diverse range of flavours to tempt all tastes. The London Restaurant Festival (4th-18th October 2010), proudly supported by American Express, is a citywide celebration of eating out designed to encourage Londoners to make more of our rich array … Read More →
6pm is not too late for a nap is it? I asked that of the wise twitterati and it was with great glee that I was told, no, no 6pm is certainly not too late for a nap. And lucky that because wow, did I need that nap. My weekend began with a fancy dinner … Read More →