Today we’re all in for a treat. It’s time for dinner on high at TĪNG at Shangri-La The Shard, London. It seems hard to believe that The Shard was completed less than ten years ago, in 2013. It feels like it’s been part of London’s skyline for much longer. This spectacular building was designed by architect […]
I love a visit to an Ivy restaurant. From my first time when I went to the original one in Covent Garden and sat on a table next to Jilly Cooper (don’t know how I stopped myself from telling her how much I love her books!), it’s always been a real treat for me. They […]
So today we’re heading East – something I don’t do very often in London – to the E1 postcode close to Aldgate East tube station. And appropriately we’re going to be trying some Eastern food – Filipino to be precise – a first for me. Yuu Kitchen predominantly serves the delightful food of South East […]
So today we’re heading in to the Leicester Square bit of Covent Garden to try some delicious Pan-Asian dishes. They’re from the wok at P.F. Chang’s Asian Table – inspired by co-founder Philip Chang’s dining table – these establishments are extremely famous in America. There are over 300 restaurants globally and this is the very […]
This week our friends Christa and Candy are over from Cape Town (all nicely alliterative) so we treated ourselves to dinner at Hakkasan. The first one of this now global restaurant brand was in Hanway Place behind the back of Tottenham Court Road Station and it opened in 2001. I remember going to try this […]
So today I’m happy to be creating another delicious dish using one of my favourite ingredients: biltong. The Chichester Biltong Company have come out with a new biltong flavour – teriyaki – which I thought would go perfectly in a crisp salad with flavours of the East. And it did. This recipe is quick to […]