Food 2019 – The Frog Hoxton, London

Monday, 24th June 2019 – The Frog Hoxton, London “Harden’s Invites you to Dinner with Adam Handling at The Frog Hoxton“; that’s what the email said, coming through on the heels of our visit to the most upmarket of the Frog outposts in Covent Garden. We thought it would be interesting to see what the…

Food 2018/2019 – Zinc Bar, Buckingham; The Garage, Buckingham

Friday, 26th October 2018/Saturday, 15th June 2019 – The Garage, Buckingham Friday, 26th October 2018 – The Garage, Buckingham The Garage has been open for a while now, based in – you guessed it – an old garage in the middle of Buckingham. We’d attempted to eat there before, only to be frustrated by technical…

Travel 2019 – Barcelona, Day 3

Thursday, 13th June 2019 – Barcelona, Day 3 We’d been late to bed the night before (too busy putting the world, or at least some aspects of it, to rights over drinks) but I was keen to get an earlyish start to what had now opened up as a free day in Barcelona. Unlike my…

Food 2019 – Mont Bar, Barcelona

Wednesday, 12th June 2019 – Mont Bar, Barcelona While Tuesday night had been very touristy, Wednesday was at the other end of the scale, with some brilliantly inventive takes on pintxos, and some very good wines, in a much more elegant dining room. I’d rounded up a group of stragglers at the hotel and walked…

Food 2019 – Los Caracoles, Barcelona

Tuesday, 11th June 2019 – Los Caracoles, Barcelona Tasked with finding restaurants to suit the colleagues with whom I was in Barcelona, I consulted the hive mind known as my Facebook friends and of the seven responses I got, all bar one of them suggested the historic hostelry known as Los Caracoles (or The Snails),…

Food 2019 – The Luggage Room, London; Hide, London

Tuesday, 28th May 2019 – The Luggage Room, London; Hide, London Having had a relatively quite few months to start 2019 it’s all kicking off now with theatres and restaurants and films and literature and food festivals to attend, and parties coming at us from all sides. In addition, there seem to be lots of…

Food 2018/2019 – Guildhall Lunch Market, London

Thursday 6th December 2018/Thursday, 10th January/Thursday, 25th April/Thursday, 23rd May 2019 – Food (Jollof Mama, Simply Paella, Nikskitchen, Parson’s Nose) The Guild Hall Lunch Market is a fine thing as far as I’m concerned, as it brings a variety of street food traders all together in one place, and unlike say the weekly Kerb market…

Food 2019 – The Chinese Cricket Club, London

Wednesday, 22nd May 2019 – The Chinese Cricket Club, London This one was not of my choosing – it was a work-related dinner – but turned out to be much better than you might expect of a restaurant in an hotel (the Crowne Plaza Blackfriars). With a group of 13 of us booked to dine…

Food 2019 – Recipes (Carla’s Potato and Mushroom Bake)

Friday, 3rd May 2019 – Recipes (Carla’s Potato and Mushroom Bake) I was stuck with an unplanned vegetable box from Abel & Cole (I left it too late to say I didn’t want one this week) and thus needed to find ways of using what I had. This recipe came up in the Guardian the…