Union Street Café, Southwark

Union Street Café is part of the Gordon Ramsey Group located just down the road from The Shard, in a fairly quiet spot in Southwark. My visit here was actually over a month ago now and I have been trying to work out what has kept me from writing about it sooner. I think it’s…

Sam’s Chowder House, Half Moon Bay CA

On my recent travels in California Sam’s Chowder House absolutely has to be up there as one of the stand out eating experiences. Having visited a couple of times now I make a special effort to try and visit whenever I’m over there. Perched on Half Moon Bay overlooking the water, the restaurant has spectacular views and…

Summer Berry Ripple Ice Cream Loaf

Summer has arrived! This obviously means trips to the seaside, barbecues and ice creams in abundance! This dish was inspired by Lorraine Pascale’s Raspberry Ripple Parfait, but you could really use any fruit to ripple through it. Frozen works best and I had a few bags of strawberries and blueberries in the freezer so that’s…

The Dog & Gun, Boreham

Regular readers will know that I usually do London restaurant reviews as I work in central London and am often out and about in town on weekday evenings eating all the yummy food I can get my hands on and trying new restaurants (sharing food or getting together over dinner is, in my opinion, the…

Snowflake, Soho

Yes I’ve been skipping the dessert menu in order to go and find more exciting puddings again! Snowflake is yet another great gelato shop in Soho. I actually wasn’t aware of Snowflake until I was making my way to a dinner reservation the other week when I noticed it and decided to come back later…

Amorino, Soho

I’ve been known to say this before, so I risk repeating myself, but I am generally of the opinion that most restaurants have really similar and generally fairly boring dessert menus. There’s usually a chocolate cake, a crème brûlée, a cheesecake and a limited selection of ice cream. Therefore now I quite regularly pay up after…

Essex Festival of Food & Drink

A few weeks ago I was absolutely delighted to discover the Essex Festival of Food & Drink literally ten minutes drive from my house. Having found out about it all very last minute from my cousin who had been last summer, I didn’t really know what it was all about and was expecting to find…

Foodies Festival, Hampton Court

It was bank holiday Monday and a rare glorious British summer’s day. As a birthday treat for my Mum, my sister and I were treating her and my Dad to a day out at the Foodies Festival on Hampton Court Green. Given the weather on the days leading up to the bank holiday I was…

Gelupo Gelato, Soho

I’ve said before that I’m not really a dessert person. It’s not that I don’t have a sweet tooth, and I do love my chocolate, I just feel that restaurants all seem to have the same half a dozen items on the menu… where’s the imagination? I like to order something different, maybe something I’ve…