Food 2016 – Crabbieshack and House of Dodo, London

October 2016 – Crabbieshack, House of Dodo, West India Quay, London With winter coming on fast the wonderful Kerb on the Quay people are winding down with the last outing of 2016 taking place last week. Meanwhile I managed to revisit two of the food truck I’ve already reviewed, and have some further thoughts on…

Food 2016 – Crabbieshack, London

Thursday 29th September 2016 – Crabbieshack, Kerb @ Quay, Canary Wharf, London Another day, another trip to Kerb on the Quay over on West India Quay! This is getting to be a slightly dangerous habit – just as well they’re only there Wednesday to Friday (and I’m not always)… As far as I know the…

Food 2016 – Vinn Goute, London

Thursday 3rd October 2016 – Vinn Goute, Kerb @ Quay, Canary Wharf, London So, another working in the office day, another weekly trip to Kerb on the Quay for lunch. This time my plan was to investigate Vinn Goute, who claim to be turning out Seychelles cooking for the masses. It was the word “goat”…

Food 2016 – House of Dodo, London

Wednesday 28th September 2016 – House of Dodo, Kerb @ Quay, Canary Wharf, London Continuing on from last week’s trip to eat at the street food extravaganza (well, 8 stalls anyway) that is Kerb on the Quay over on West India Quay, and faced with a sunny lunchtime when I didn’t fancy soup at my…

Food 2016 – Allihopa, London

Friday 23rd September 2016 – Allihopa, Kerb @ Quay, Canary Wharf, London Last week, bored with eating lunch at my desk,  and keen to see whether the concrete and glass monstrosity that is Canary Wharf has any redeeming features, I decided to go out to Kerb on the Quay over on West India Quay to…

Food 2016 – Polpo, London

Sunday, 29th August 2016 – Polpo, Duke of York’s Square, London After failing to get any breakfast at all and spending the early part of the afternoon engaged in viewing Exhibitionism: The Rolling Stones at the Saatchi Gallery we were very hungry and for that matter thirsty. Emerging blinking into a somewhat grey afternoon we…

Travel 2016 – Porvoo, Day 16

Day 16 – Wednesday, 20th July (Porvoo) Moose count = Are you trying to be funny?! The day began with breakfast on the terrace at Haikko Manor itself in the Romanov Dining Room – and very good it was too with all sorts of choice and lots of lactose and gluten free options, so much…

Travel 2016 – Lappeenranta, Day 14

Day 14 – Monday 18th July (Lappeenranta) Moose count = still not a one! We got up in a spirit of adventure ready to see if the hotel breakfasts were any better than their dreadful dinners. They weren’t. With an hour still to run most things had run out (there was no fruit left apart…

Travel 2016 – Savonlinna, Kuopio, Joroinen, Imatra, Day 13

Day 13 – Sunday 17th July (Savonlinna, Kuopio, Imatra) Moose count  = Possibly in a stew! Also, one stuffed moose (but the museum was closed)! Today was the day we had to move on again. This time we did a somewhat illogical side trip to Kuopio en route to Imatra. If you look at the…

Travel 2016 – Tampere, Day 10

Day 10 – Thursday 14th July (Tampere) Moose count = not a single one! Today the weather was much improved after the storms of the previous night and for us it was all about Tampere. The apartment was in the middle of a building site (some sort of tunnel seems to be under construction, for…