The Fun Part of Indoor Dining – A Review of Lebanese Gourmet SE18
The fun part of indoor dining is that you can read the menu before you ‘turn up.’ (Okay, you always could, but I bet you never did). Now you can virtually ‘walk out’ of a disappointing restaurant...
Boulangerie Jade SE3 – reviewed again
There are two types of people in this world, those who like mille-feuille, and those who don’t. Okay well, maybe there are three types, those who don’t like mille-feuille, those who do like...
99p e-book
Looking for some spring bank holiday reading?? Helen and the Grandbees “a heart-wrenching and deeply resonant story” ebook is at 99p at the moment! https://amzn.to/3crOtVr
A Review of THE SPICERY subscription box
I was a bit cynical about The Spicery before I was gifted a subscription. I already have a whole cupboard door of spices... plus a drawer of kilner jars... plus things lying, y’know, around....
A deliciously complicated Negroni delivery…
In my long search of trying to find reasons to be cheerful in lockdown with ice and a very badly broken arm, I encountered the Riding House Cafe, normally based in Fitrozia was now...
Broken arm!
Morning all! This is just a quick note to say I can see lots of people are hitting the blog when I normally publish on a Saturday morning only to be disappointed that I haven’t blogged for a couple...
Grace’s Caribbean Cuisine, SE12
Let me be perfectly clear. We found ourselves at Grace’s Carribean Cuisine (well, on Just Eat’s website) for one thing and one thing only. Goat Curry. Okay... well, we did add things to that ‘one...
Announcing “Adrift – The Storyteller & The Mosaicist”
From the writer of ‘Engaging and Uplifting’ (Daily Mail) HELEN AND THE GRANDBEES, the next book… An artist inspired by Ethiopia, a storyteller who lives by the sea, and early 2000’s London all...
The Tapas Room, Deptford – A Tiny Cavern of Delights
Little did we know that it was the end of tier 2, that in fact this tier was set to double, when we enjoyed a day off work to pretend to holiday in Deptford. We sat under the glow of a heater,...
More Insta-Art of HELEN AND THE GRANDBEES
Some of the bookstagrammers pictures of “Helen and the Grandbees” during last month’s book blog tour... Helen and the Grandbees is available to buy here:...
A Few More Of My Blog Posts
Book Trailer for ‘Helen and the Grandbees’
See the trailer for the exciting new novel ‘Helen and The Grandbees’
New website!
This is just to announce that the new website alexmorrall.com is now live and holds everything.. my art, my novels, my food blogging... Have an explore!
A Sense of Un-Entitlement
The old and the new in South East London My south east London ranges from sticky and urine-soaked, to smart and classy within a few steps. I can walk in the woods, stroll along an isolated industrial Thameside, shop at budget supermarkets and drink...
A Review of Luciano’s Lee SE12
The biggest concern in Luciano’s, as we sat on the Burnt Ash Road, warding off insistent sunshine, and occasionally seat swapping to escape it, was whether we should order mussels in arrabbiata sauce or lemon. When we eventually received the mussels in arrabbiata...
Park Cafe Honle (that’s ‘Honle’ with an umlaut)
I’ve been cycling past Park Cafe Honle (that’s ‘Honle’ with an umlaut) in Deptford’s Folkestone gardens for years, just not knowing. It was a day off for a chill that let me discover what a delight was in this modest building next to the skateboard park. And that’s...
A Review of ‘El Marsem’, Delights of the Old Kent Road
I discovered Algerian Cafe “El Marsem” on the Old Kent Road when we were stopped by the traffic lights in front a window of piles and piles of pancakey bread, or was it bready pancakes, or was it just one huge pancake? either empty, or stuffed with cheeses and other...