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Square and Compass, Worth Matravers
Although the drizzle, dark winter nights, and the time I seem to spend stuck on the M25 may sometime get me down, I do still love this Sceptred Isle. While the idea of Old England may seem like rose...
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Tommis Burger Joint, Marylebone
As much as I love the wave of, Stateside inspired, 'comfort' food that's sweeping our shores, I don't often find it particularly comforting. Yes, there's the soporific effect of ingesting huge piles...
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Polpo At Home
For Christmas my good friend Stealth bought me the Polpo cookbook. This was not because she thought I would like it (I did), or that we had enjoyed eating in Russell Norman's restaurants together...
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Chocs Away - The Belgian Edition
The Ewing's obsessive love of chocolate has been well documented on the blog before - the abiding memory of one of our first 'dates', at a lovely pub in Greenwich, involved me having to run off...
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A Belgian Dozen - Part 1
When planning a trip to Cheshire/Lancashire for this spring, I realised I had never properly ventured into the North West corner of our Fair Isle. Thinking it might be a bit of a ‘fun' challenge - I...
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A Belgian Dozen - Part 2
Halfway through our whistle-stop food tour of Belgium's dozen best dishes, and things were going well. We successfully had eaten and drunk our way through the first part of the list, the Rennies were...
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The Crown Chop House, Amersham
After plans to catch up with our lovely friend Maz fell through at the last minute, I decided to reclaim the evening as date night and treat my wife to dinner. While normally my beloved and I can't...
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La Bière en Belgique
What’s the first thing that springs to mind when Belgium is mentioned? Battlefields; Jaques Brel; boring bureaucrats? Maybe it’s a plump detective, or the adventurer with the quiff? For me, it’s...
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Bettys Cafe Tea Rooms, Harrogate
“Whatever the situation, whatever the race or creed,Tea knows no segregation, no class nor pedigreeIt knows no motivations, no sect or organisation,It knows no one religion,Nor political belief.” ‘Have...
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Reds True Barbecue, Leeds
The origins of 'real' barbecue - the cooking meat in the smoke of a charcoal fire, rather than directly over the flames - are debatable. It probably came from the Caribbean, introduced to the New...
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The Chocolate Theatre, Henley
Come along inside…. We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better placeThe Wind in the Willows Growing up where I did, the river Thames meandering through local villages, blossom-edged...
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The Big Society, Oxford
'Food critics are forever doomed to compare everything they're eating now to everything they've eaten before.' The Ewing, 2013. My wife came out with this little nugget as we we sat digesting our...
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Duck, Prunes and Carrots
Recently I've been re-reading Pierre Koffmann's fabulous Memories of Gascony. Part memoir, part recipe book, it follows the young chef as he makes his annual visits to his grandparent's farm; charting...
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Claridge's, Mayfair
'Under certain circumstances there are few hours more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea'. Henry James Any eagle-eyed readers (hello, Mum) may have noticed the...
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MEATmarket, Covent Garden
Firstly, a confession: this blog post has been written with the sole intention of self gratification. If you were going to eat a burger at any branch of the, rightly, much lauded MEAT trilogy, it's...
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SoLita, Manchester
I could preface this blog with some sort of caveat about writing yet another piece about a place building a reputation serving burgers, wings and various other deep fried flotsam and jetsam...
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North West's Best
While my branch of the Roscoe family tree originally hailed from Wigan area, the North West - bar a couple of trips to the Lakes and a ill advised late October jaunt to Blackpool - has remained...
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This and That, Manchester
While Brum has its famous Balti Triangle and London has it's Brick Lane, Manchester boasts Rusholme's Curry Mile - a stretch of the Wilmslow Road thought to have the highest concentration of South...
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Roy's Pie
A few weeks ago my Nan’s partner, Roy, died. He had been ill for a few months, but it was still a keen loss, especially as the last time all the UK based family had been together was for his 80th...
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The French by Simon Rogan, Manchester
Manchester may be known for many things - the music, the football, the Victorian architecture, the rain -but until now the restaurant scene has been somewhat lacking. Beyond the curries, a thriving...
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