Fred Sirieix from Channel 4’s First Dates, Grilled!
Fred Sirisix (pronounced see-ree-ex – it must be a problem if it’s on the bottom of his emails) is the maître d’ from Channel 4‘s massive hit First Dates and quite possibly, one… Continue reading
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It Does Exactly What It Says On The Tin | Beef & Brew, 323 Kentish Town Road, London NW5 2TJ
Oh look, there’s another new London restaurant with a name that’s two random words paired together, yawn. Well, at least these aren’t not totally random, you know what you’re gonna get there. We… Continue reading
If You Go ‘Up’ To The Woods Today… | Forest On The Roof, Selfridges & Co, 400 Oxford Street London W1A 1AB
I rarely visit Oxford Street, I find that the hoards of tourists and crazed shoppers frazzles my brain, sending it into a spin. But if weaving my way through the crowds means I… Continue reading
10 Boozy Must-Haves From Just £6.50 | Checkout 2015
We pick our favourite boozy must-haves. Click on the blue links to buy! 1) Heston must have been thinking of us when he came up with this cherry bakewell vodka. Dangerously good.… Continue reading
And I Think To Myself, What A Wünderlust World | Wünderlust At The Big Red, 30 Deptford Church Street, London SE8 4RZ
As Saff mentioned in her recent Dirty Bones review, we very rarely re-visit restaurants. There are an obvious few exceptions (MEATLiquor, The Diner, Dishoom and any of Russell Norman‘s places) but The Big… Continue reading
Chicken Licken | The Chicken Burger At Tommi’s Burger Joint, London
You all well know that we love a burger and Tommi’s Burger Joint have been one of our favourites since they came over to London from their Icelandic homeland in the summer of… Continue reading
Berlin In Four And A Half Days
Before we head off on our travels, we always ask for recommendations and gather as many insider tips as we can. We’d heard good things about the food scene in Berlin – hence… Continue reading
14 Must-Haves For Your Pet From Just £2.49 | Pet Checkout 2015
We pick our favourite pet must-haves. Click on the blue links to buy! 1) Ever imagined your cat as a DJ? I bet there isn’t a cooler cat scratch mat in existence than… Continue reading
Going Up In The World | Dirty Bones, Kingly Court, Carnaby Street, Soho, London W1B 5PW
Marina O’Loughlin‘s Top 50 Restaurants feature is so on our wavelength. We rate wherever we go to eat on one simple question: would we go back? Another major aspect is if we can… Continue reading
Going Down? | POPdown At The Vaults, Leake Street, Waterloo, London SE1 7NN
I’m not very good at being concise, I tend to ramble… So my snappy news pieces need to be just that – snappy. So here goes, deep breath, here we go… After the… Continue reading
Super Duper | La Soupe Populaire, Atelierhaus, Prenzlauer Allee 242, 10405 Berlin
Firstly, wow! And secondly, WOW! It’s not very often that we get blown away by a restaurant but La Soupe Populaire’s decor and food left us speechless. It was the last full day… Continue reading
Slip Into Something More Comfortable | 25hours Hotel Bikini Berlin, Budapester Strasse 40, 10787 Berlin
As is always the case when we travel, we turned up at our hotel exhausted, hungry, stressed and a little angry at each other. Getting from Schönefeld airport to the 25hours Bikini hotel… Continue reading
There’s No Place Like Home | Dishoom Carnaby, 22 Kingly Street, London W1B 5QB
We hate to be unfair and write a blog post about a restaurant during its most challenging time – their soft launch. But we’re going to anyway because the restaurant is Dishoom and… Continue reading
It Must Be Love, Love, Love | Casa Corazon, Cami de sa Fontasa, 89, 07814 Santa Gertrudis de Fruitera, Ibiza, Spain
It’s funny what the universe can sort out for you. Now I’m not really a believer in cosmic ordering or anything spiritual [Hmm, I think you are a little – Saff]. But I’m… Continue reading
…And Breathe | Atzaró, Carretera Sant Joan, km 15, 07800, Santa Eularia des Riu, Ibiza, Spain
Gotta love a spa and boy were we in need of one. Bring on the Atzaró hotel in Ibiza – a stunning expanse of Balinese beauty in the middle of an orange farm… Continue reading
A Long And Winding (Restaurant) Road | Nagai, Santa Eulària des Riu, Ibiza, Spain
When we were planning our trip to Ibiza, we envisaged eating Spanish food al fresco by the sea, the waves crashing beneath us and the obligatory chill out music in the background. Oh… Continue reading
TRIED AND TESTED | Marks and Spencer’s New Indian range
How do M&S keep rolling out new ranges without us realising what old products have been ditched? They must be replacing something, right? Surely there’s not enough room for both the old and… Continue reading
Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner | Le Coq, 292-294 St Paul’s Road, London N1 2LH
Saff and I are fairly uncomplicated creatures. All we really ask for is great food (hence this blog), occasional foreign sun on our faces and to have as much fun as humanly possible.… Continue reading
Losing My Virgin(ity) | Behind The Scenes At The Virgin Atlantic Base
Hands up who gets excited about airline food! It’s a guilty pleasure of ours and judging from my Facebook page, many of my friends too. When Virgin Atlantic asked us to come along… Continue reading
Get £10 Off* That Job You’d Rather Not Do | Fantastic Services
I have to admit that we hadn’t heard of Fantastic Services until they got in touch with us in regard to coming to give our oven a clean. Our immediate answer was ‘yes!’… Continue reading