The dessert that made me a plate licker. I’m not the only one worrying about the recession. But I’m probably the only one in Cutler & Co thinking about it. The reincarnation of chef Andrew McConnell’s Three, One, Two at the top end of Gertrude St is packed. So packed, McConnell later tells me that it took them by surprise which explains a couple of timing issues that a few of you will have seen on Twitter. But the whole […]
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Q&A: Tips for world travellers
Q I am writing to you from agricultural heartland (Gippsland, that is) and hoping you might be able to give a coupla tips for surviving a visit to Washington DC. Naturally, the idea of eating in America inspires a degree of terror in me and I thought just maybe you might have a few clues? We are also visiting the Big Apple for the first time and would love to eat well there too.. I have heard this is easily […]
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 […]
Hits all the way at Midsummer House (until the bizarre chocolate box arrives)
Just note that the spelling is Midsummer and not Midsomer. And the only nettles were crisp fried on the plate rather than in the cast. We are at Midsummer House on Midsummer Common in Cambridge, the single Michelin starred restaurant in East Anglia – or so I’m told. Despite being on the cam, in that perverse English way the main restaurant is in a conservatory overlooking a walled garden where we can see the staff tooing and froing to the […]
First glimpse at Andrew McConnell’s Cumulus Inc in Flinders Lane
If there’s one thing I’ve learnt writing about the opening of restaurants is that it rarely goes to plan. As a writer it is easy to be caught out. Openings can be delayed by months or even years. And so it was that on Thursday the 26th I rocked up to Cumulus Inc (45 Flinders Lane +61 3 9650 1445) for supper to find the chef (Andrew McConnell of Three, One , Two and formerly Circa The Prince) and architect, […]
First underground restaurants. Now underground biscuits
Perhaps it’s the different rules of society and etiquette in Japan but it is a very strange place when you need an introduction to eat at a restaurant. I suppose London has a similar thing happening with its traditional Gentlemen’s Clubs. Then there is the more modern Milk and Honey in New York, and now London (and opening the less exclusive Match Bar in QV fairly soon once a few liquor licensing problems are overcome). Anyway, last week I was […]
13 ways for restaurants to get lucky in Google searches. Or why they must learn to love food blogs
If you haven’t noticed most people find your website or blog through Google. Yes, it may be through Yahoo! But until somebody comes up with something better Google is king. The reason why restaurants or any other small or medium sized business need to take notice of blogs is that very probably a blog will come higher up in search results than you. This is unless the Google search is for your website name alone. In reality, it may be […]
Lunch most popular:Movida
Spanish chef Frank Comorra is a laugh. When he sent me a copy of his sell out Movida cookbook he signed it as the CEO of Ikea. He’d read by blogpost where I’d complained Movida didn’t conform to the stereotypical Spanish restaurant and owed more to the Swedish superstore than dark oak, Pablo Picasso or Anton Gaudi.Of course, I’m nothing but inconsistent. Shannon Bennett’s Bistro Vue I complain is a French theme park with its beams, French furniture and a […]