The Foody Traveller
It has to be said – we enjoy cocktails. We’ve attempted making our own, but they’ve never been too successful as we don’t have the proper equipment, and the ingredients can sometimes be a problem too. We’ve tried making our own sugar syrups and fruit purees. They were ok, but… Consequently there was a huge […]
Bar Boulud, part of the Mandarin Oriental hotel, located in glamorous Knightsbridge, a mere stone’s throw from leafy Hyde Park is renowned for its bistro menu featuring house-produced charcouterie and burgers. Since we were last there Bar Boulud has had a gentle make-over with new upholstery and a long sleek mirror running along one wall […]
TAP Portugal is celebrating 72 years of service by launching a new aircraft complete with a ‘retro’ makeover in tribute to the history of Portugal. The new ‘retro’ aircraft, an Airbus A330-300, named ‘Portugal’ took to the skies on 26 June 2017. The livery of the new ‘Portugal’ aircraft is part of a series of […]
As a family, a sausage supper has always been one of our favourites, either in casseroles, baked into toad in the hole, or enjoyed simply straight from the grill or bbq. But as we all know sausages vary enormously – some containing too much rusk or bread, others too chewy from too much meat, others too […]
We liked TWID. A fun, quirky sort of place where the welcome was warm, the cocktails strong, the food good as well as nicely presented. York Road, Battersea might not be the easiest of places to get to – a 15-minute walk from Clapham Junction station, a 20-minute bus ride from Victoria station, but we […]
We had assumed that Black Garlic was produced from a bulb of ordinary garlic which had been specially treated with various flavourings. How wrong we were. It did indeed start life as regular white garlic but by long and careful exposure to heat and humidity a process of natural fermentation begins, thereby turning the garlic […]