Posts under ‘food and drink’

Sometimes it does a soul good to get away from the built-up spaces of a city — even a city with a wide and sweeping, ever-changing tidal river like the Thames — and head out to the coast and walk on a beach for a few hours. Such was the reasoning behind last week's visit [...]

For those of you (if there are any of you) waiting for the next instalment of my Painshill Park posts, I'm afraid you'll have to wait a bit longer. What with spending last weekend at Caption, where I took a lot of photos that needed going through, having other things I needed to get done [...]

Last week, I managed not only to forget to mention any of Alternative Press Fair events that were on, I also managed to entirely miss all of them due to feeling a bit under the weather and really not wanting to end up ill and having to miss Jeremy and Tim's wedding on Sunday. Did [...]

After our Chocolate Wine Slush, we were invited to try the cheese board, to which some of us hesitantly said "yes", and "perhaps", but Nikki just came out and firmly said, "today is not a day for saying no" and went ahead and ordered. Spurred on by her enthusiasm, I decided to have one too. [...]

It's time for pudding! I love pudding. The dessert section of the menu was rather good, as you'd expect. My favourite dessert was the first one, which was actually two on the same plate; a Bavarois of Lychee and Mango, and a Blackcurrant Sorbet topped with a wafer. The bavarois was deliciously sweet and fruity, [...]

Where were we? Oh yes, we'd reached the Roast Foie Gras with Almond Fluid Gel, Cherry and Chamomile. This was an amazingly complex dish, rich and full of flavour. Even the delicate wafers garnishing the top packed a knockout punch of flavour into a tiny space, but none of the flavours overwhelmed the others, they [...]

It's almost a shame that the opening dish of the Fat Duck tasting menu is already so famous, because the familiarity of the idea almost made it disappointing. I think it would have been more exciting if I hadn't been expecting to see it at the start, but it was still a lot of fun [...]

In case any of you were wondering about that thing I tweeted on Sunday, no, I haven't suddenly converted to Catholicism. I'm still hampered by a personal lack of faith as far as mystical entities with omnipotent powers are concerned, so that's not likely to be happening any time soon. As a matter of fact, [...]

Sunday's fun was a bit more sedate; a riverside brunch to celebrate the recent wedding of chums Eeva and Conor. The most entertaining event was when one of the babies grabbed a stranger's bottom when she was clutching onto his chair. Oh my how we laughed. Said stranger was having lunch with this lady who [...]