Advice needed: Why is clafoutis, please?
A review of Paul Rhodes Bakery in Greenwich Advice needed: why is clafoutis please? (That was a ‘why, not a ‘what’.) And why does it sometimes have an 's' on the end and sometimes not? I understand...
Am I allowed to blog about the food from the farmer’s market, do you think?
A Review of Blackheath Farmers' Market, London SE3 Are farmers' markets sufficiently a-little-bit coffee-shop-esque? Coffee shops and farmer's markets are after all, part of the same package;...
Those Very Round Glasses
A review of Buenos Aires the Restaurant in Blackheath London SE3 (I’ll come back to the coffee shop in Greenwich some other time). I know you have looked in the large windows of this restaurant and...
Readers, we fall out? Already?
Readers, we fall out already?! I have now discovered the disappointing side of blogging. I was initially flattered when so many people came and told me that I made them want to eat a Boulangerie...
Boulangerie Jade
Could someone correct me here? Having dated a French speaker I was introduced to pronouncing this place as Jaaaade, rather than Jayde. But I am starting to think that I am the only person in...
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Who told me that the food was bad in Iceland?
Who told me that the food was bad in Iceland (the country)? I mean, I am pretty sure that everyone told me that the food was bad in Iceland. They were misinformed. I journeyed out to Iceland thinking I would have to eat hot dogs every day as a penalty for being able...
Is there anything as rustically beautiful as an Oyster?
A review of the Oyster and Steak Bar in Waitrose Canary Wharf. I know you don't come here for reviews of supermarkets, but even if you find them very boring you will be in them very often. It's not reasonable to expect me not to have an opinion no them when I eat from...
I would like to tell you how my husband's beer battered haddock was..
A Review of the Vanbrugh Pub, SE10 We were crowded out of Greenwich on Saturday lunch. We should have spotted the inevitability of this, when we couldn't even park before getting to the eating stage. We popped our head around the door of so many places that I have yet...
I don't care if it makes me fat this week, I HAVE A COLD.
A Review of The Viceroy in Chalrton SE7 Have you ever had one of those streaming cold write off days, when even if you were at home it was a waste of a day because all you can do is lie in bed and resent your immune system? Yep? And that feeling that only a curry...
I wish had gone straight for the petit fours..
A review of Boisdale's at Canary Wharf. http://www.boisdale.co.uk > The menu at Boisdale's said that the haggis in its starter form would be a mini haggis. It was not. My starter was an enormous portion of magnificent haggis (with neeps and tatties) wafting...
The genius of the mosaic cake was the invisible chocolate chunks
A Review of Hazev, South Quay Hazev ain't so far away, guys, over in South Quay on the way to Canary Wharf. And you should go to Canary Wharf every now and then, on the DLR and stuff. In fact we ended up here when we spotted that our meal in Greenwich would be...