And you might well follow your nose to my mum’s house where you’ll sometimes find a Stinking Bishop in the corner of her garden. She’ll let it into the house when we are eating but otherwise the smelly and runny cheese from Gloucestershire isn’t welcome near the house. I actually looked for the Neal’s yard dairy in Neal’s Yard, Covent Garden. Of course there are only healthy restaurants and shops that sell beads there. It was only on the way […]
Tag: London
Finally a decent flat white (and a young model)
My old office used to look out over Berwick St, with its wonderful but little known fruit and veg market. “3 figs 1 pound” the sign reads. And they used to at least have some wonderfully arranged displays. The “models” are still up a staircase next to the fish and chip shop where we lusted over the girl with a fine layer of chip fat over her skin and the giant hoop earrings. Once the “models” used to be French, […]
Legal unpasteurized cheese in Mayfair
Ihaven’t had a chance to visit Neal’s yard Diary yet. But I was passing Paxton and Whitfield on Jermyn St the superb purveyor of all manner of cheese (and some pretty good pork pies which today I missed). If you know where to look London is studded with these sorts of places in the form of butchers and also fishmongers. Today I buy a slither of cheddar, unpasteurized of course. What i immediately notice is how more refined the texture […]
Jamon on the bone in Soho
I‘m spending two hours a day in the Apple lecture theatre accessing the fast broadband network as we are still wind-up internet at home. It’s a stones throw from my old work stamping ground of Soho, the tiny streets bordered by Regent and Wardour Streets. My big food find is Fernandez and Wells on Beak St with whole jamons (hams) hanging in the window. But Beak St is too close to Carnaby St for my liking and I stroll around […]
London help needed for visiting food blogger
What are the essential food and drink experiences in London at the moment? I arrive back for the first time in four years, and the first as a food blogger, on the 10th September, leaving on the 22nd (Right now I’m sweating it out in Dubai for some reason). Part of my visit is for work to conduct some interview for a book but so easily it can become entwined with pleasure. But it’s a whirlwind tour where I also […]