What- Traditional and modern Lebanese/Eastern Mediterranean/Mezze Where- 208 1st Ave, between 12th & 13th Street How much- Mezze & wine for two $100 incl service Overall- 9/10 Once upon a time a girl from Essex became mildly obsessed with fattoush- a simple zingy middle eastern salad she learned from a Gizzie Erskine book. This same […]
Read More The New York State of Mind- BaladeWhat: Modern BBQ- ribs, brisket, wings, burnt ends. Where: Many locations across Brooklyn, Manhattan, Jersey. We went East Village, 2nd Ave and East 6th St How Much: $20ish pp for meat, side and drink Overall: 10/10 for a quick, tasty dinner Oh. My. Goodness. Mighty Quinn’s was an early hit on my search list for […]
Read More The New York State of Mind- Mighty Quinn’s BBQWhat: Craft beers and higher end pub grub, big TV Where: 2nd Ave on the corner of 5th St, East Village How much: Mid range, roughly $8 a pint, relatively a lot more for bottled brews. Food menu $10-$20 a plate Overall: 10/10 for beer drinking, We came across Cooper’s (named for the local college, […]
Read More The New York State of Mind- Cooper’s Craft & KitchenWhat: Coffee, pastries, cakes, limited kitchen menu. Where: 72 East 1st St, between 1st & 2nd Ave, downtown Manhattan. How Much? Coffee and breakfast $12ish Overall: 9 out of 10 Bluebird was an early addition to my NYC holiday hit list after a quick search for the best coffee local to our mission base in […]
Read More The New York State of Mind- Bluebird Coffee ShopI celebrated four years of glorious togetherness with Him this week. For roughly three years and fifty weeks of this time he has been banging on about ‘the best curry’ he has ever had, and how we will go there one night. I have to confess I’ve never been that keen on taking Him up on […]
Read More A Little Plug- Curry Nights of Maldoned 30.05.16 more recent review here pls see if planning to eat here ed 30.03.16- note originally written prior to ground-floor expansion, very different feel now If you’re local to Colchester and you’ve not been to Three Wise Monkeys yet you are probably really sick of everyone going on about how you should go there. […]
Read More Three Wise MonkeysLet me take you back a few weeks to the hottest day of the year (and indeed on record for some parts) and the first of new regularly scheduled Lady Dates* between a food blogger and her bestest girl buddy. It was a Wednesday, it was central London and it was too hot for any […]
Read More A Little Plug- Joe’s Southern KitchenAqua 8– small but swanky mid price restaurant in central Ipswich offering ‘Creative Pan Asian’ cuisine and currently the top of my ‘Must Revisit’ list. I discovered them on recommendation for a half decent Chinese before a theatre outing in Suffolk’s county town, in doing so discovering the high point of an otherwise disappointing weekend. […]
Read More A Little Plug- Aqua 8The Restaurant: Harvester Locations: Nationwide Specimen Venue: Colchester Menu: ‘Continental’ Buffet, unlimited hot items cooked to order Price: £2.99 (99p kids) all you can eat continental, £4.99 (£1.99 kids) to include hot items, bottomless coffee additional £2.25, other sundries available at further cost. Highlight: Good range on cold items Lowlight: see below! General Score: 5/10 […]
Read More The Breakfast Club- HarvesterNo, this is not a heritage heavy lecture to precede a geographically prejudiced recipe that dates back to Old King Cole (he was from Colchester you know). Nor a quirky, comical tale of how someone came up with a thin stew inspired by old school girl power advocate Boadicea, also a local lass. This is not […]
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