TRIED AND TESTED | The new Marks and Spencer Taste range
It’s becoming increasingly hard to keep up with M&S‘s new ranges, they’re on such a roll at the moment. Not only do they have a new expanse of meat – including pork presa… Continue reading
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Sí, sí, Señor | Señor Ceviche, Kingly Court, Carnaby Street, London W1B 5PW
My first experience of ceviche was only this summer at Tierra peru, a stall at the Campo Viejo Streets of Spain festival and I loved it! Although ceviche has a Spanish heritage, it’s… Continue reading
Why we started a food blog, and no, its not what you think.
Four years ago when we innocently and perhaps naively decided to start our blog, we never dreamt that it would still be going four years later or that it would have changed our… Continue reading
14 of the best Bonfire Night treats | Checkout 2014
We pick our favourite cosy Bonfire Night treats. Click on the blue links to buy! 1) Bonfire Night doesn’t have to be hot with Mackie’s Indulgent Toffee Apple Dairy Ice Cream rippled with… Continue reading
Ticking all the right boxes | Tredwell’s, 4a Upper St Martin’s Lane, London, WC2H 9NY
There are a few fundamental things we look for in a restaurant: good customer service, pleasing decor, plus great cooking with a varied and reasonably priced menu. It’s staggering the amount of places… Continue reading
Get cosy with your tableware this Autumn | The Tesco Autumn/Winter Home Collection 2014
There’s nothing like a new set of crockery to reignite your passion for cooking and trying new recipes. I’d been stuck in a bit of a cookery rut, making the same reliable recipes… Continue reading
Shh, it’s a secret | B.Y.O.C, 9-11, Basement, Camden High Street, Camden, London
It was a cold Tuesday evening and Hurricane Gonzalo was causing havoc in old London town, so a visit to Camden didn’t seem like a particularly good idea. But work had been stupidly busy… Continue reading
10 Spooky Halloween Treats | Checkout 2014
We pick our top 10 spooktacular Halloween treats. Click on the blue links to buy! 1) The super-creative people at Orange Paper Duck have come up trumps again with these spooky cupcake wrappers,… Continue reading
The suite life | The Aegean Suites hotel, Periferiakos Skiathou, Skiathos 370 02, Greece
The Greek island of Skiathos is known as the ‘fly and flop island’ and that’s exactly what we did when we stayed at the beautiful and extremely chilled Aegean Suites. We’d just spent… Continue reading
Fit for a princess | The Skiathos Princess hotel, 37002, Agia Paraskevi, Skiathos, Greece
I have an idea of a new hotel concept – a cat hotel. Not a cattery, I mean a hotel for humans with resident cats. Humans like me who love cats but for… Continue reading
11 Irresistible Treats For Chocolate Week | Checkout 2014
Chocolate Week is here on 13 October, like we need an excuse. Here’s 11 of our favourite chocolatey treats. Click on the blue links to buy! 1) First there was red velvet cake,… Continue reading
WELL POP ME IN A JAR AND CALL ME A PICKLE | SARSON’S PICKLING MASTER CLASS WITH PETER GINN & GABRIEL PRYCE
To me, pickled foods used to represent that limp slither of gherkin in a Quarter Pounder, the sad onions on cocktail sticks left behind at kids parties, or the boiled egg being sucked… Continue reading
Carl Clarke aka Disco Bistro, Grilled!
We first met Carl Clarke three years ago at the fab English Launderette pop-up, it was only a brief meeting, but we in that time we could see just how hard-working he is.… Continue reading
Beef up your Sundays | Roast dinners at CAU, 10-12 Royal Parade, Blackheath, London SE3 0TL
A Sunday roast is best eaten either at someone else’s house, a pub or a restaurant. For me, it’s far too much faff with too little reward when I cook one, plus the… Continue reading
Bump N’ Grind | Bump Spirit Courses at Bump Caves, 208 Tower Bridge Road, London SE1 2UP
We’ve been to many a master class – how to make coffee, how to assemble the perfect chocolate bomb, how to make pizza dough, even how to pickle an egg! But this distil… Continue reading
Food-inspired beauty treats for all | Checkout Summer 2014
We couldn’t help but notice an abundance of food-inspired beauty products on the market, here’s our favourite picks for all the family that are good enough to eat. Click on the blue links… Continue reading
Down Mexico way | New Mix-and-Match Plates at Benito’s Hat, 12-14 St John Street, London, EC1M 4AY
One of our biggest regrets during last year’s visit to LA was not making the short(ish) drive into Mexico. Instead we opted to give Sin City another chance, big mistake (apart from the… Continue reading
Ken Hom, Grilled!
We are so thrilled to grill Ken Hom OBE, as well as being the international authority on Chinese and Asian food, this year he celebrates his 30th anniversary as TV’s most enduring and… Continue reading
Talk dirty to me | Dirty Burger, 13 Bethnal Green Road, Shoreditch, London E1 6LA
Bit of a blogger fail, but we still have a few London burger places to tick off our list. Dirty Burger was one of them, although they had three branches one in Vauxhall,… Continue reading
The Fountain restaurant at Fortnum & Mason | a We Love Food & Zomato competition
*THIS COMPETITION HAS NOW CLOSED* We’ve teamed up with Zomato again to offer a lucky reader a £80 voucher for one of London’s most renowned establishments – The Fountain restaurant at Fortnum & Mason.… Continue reading