Le Pain Quotidien, Festival Hall, London SE1 8XX I used to travel a lot, regularly staying over 200 nights a year in hotels. There are always lots of bars and restaurants to visit in the evenings but you always tend to do breakfast in the hotel, and I can tell you, they are all the [...][...]
Archive for October, 2006
October 31st, 2006 - 5:52 pm § in Restaurants
Bournemouth Restaurants review
Bournemouth is definitely getting better in the variety of restaurants and eateries it has in the area. Although it has the usual range of Italian, Indian and Chinese restaurants the older established ones are having to compete very hard now, and rightly so. Some were getting pretty stale anywa[...]
October 22nd, 2006 - 7:57 pm § in Food
Chinese “Chicken Tikka Masala”
{mosimage}Never thought too hard about these things as I already knew that a lot of the stuff in Chinese takeaways are just stuff rehashed for occidental tastes. I saw this article on dimsum.co.uk about food invented for the British market where it talks about crispy aromatic duck being just an inve[...]
October 21st, 2006 - 7:47 pm § in Movies/DVD
Sideways – A wine movie, perhaps
{mosimage}This kills two birds with one stone a movie and it contains a lot of wine. I reviewed this movie whilst drinking a bottle of Zonte's Footstep that I drank whilst watching this on my other site. A funny movie about a couple fo friends touring the US wine counties as part of a stag-week.[...]
October 21st, 2006 - 3:43 pm § in Latest
Free Dim Sum book on offer
{mosimage}To kick proceedings along I have a book called Dim Sum: Traditional favourites and Innovative Creations, by Chan Chen Hei, which will be awarded to the writer of the best contributions over the next coming months. This book is also available from Amazon. You could submit something about th[...]
October 19th, 2006 - 9:59 pm § in General
Baby naming
Well, I have another baby on the way – I did my bit sometime back – just waiting for the Stork to turn up. We are in the ‘name’ phase of pregnancy and the growth of the internet in recent years has made ‘what name shall we choose’ far more complicated than f[...]
October 11th, 2006 - 4:30 pm § in Planning & Booking
Post Office Travel
The Post Office has some deals on travel insurance and commission free currency exchange. One strange thing that I found when I visited the Post Office to get some Euros was that I could only exchange physical cash. They would not let me use a debit card for payment. I then had to use the [...][...]
October 9th, 2006 - 5:06 pm § in Restaurants
Barn under a wandering star
217 Jesmond Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne. Tel: 0191 281 7179. This restaurant is preceded by a good reputation. A friend of mine, Duncan Fisher who owns the Apartment and Mr Lynch bars in Newcastle took me there last time I was up North. (Incidentally he has now added "As you like it " to the[...]
October 7th, 2006 - 9:51 pm § in TV/Radio
Bruno (aka Borat) and Spring Break dudes
This is so, so funny, just cracks me up! The funniest bit is at the end. Just watch the guy's reaction when all is revealed. Borat/Bruno on Daytona Beach It is not Borat but rather his Bruno alter-ego that is in front of the camera. [...]