With Easter right round the corner, it’s time for Qin Xie to bring you a round up of some of the best Easter eggs out there.
The Sustainable Restaurant Association; a year on, 600 members
The Sustainable Restaurants Association, is a ‘not for profit’ organisation and although their principal aim is to help restaurants become more sustainable, they also aim to help you, the customer, make more sustainable choices as to where you might eat out. In these days of growing ecological concerns, the SRA is an organisation we should all consider getting behind.
Pommery Champagne, great any time
Champagne is seen by many as a drink to have just at special times, but why restrict ourselves to just those occasional moments? Champagne is an ideal wine to drink and share with your partner or introduce to your guests at any time. If the sun’s out and you’re relaxing having a pleasant afternoon, that’s reason enough in my book.
Donald Russell Meat Pies
After first taste trialling Charlie Bigham’s pies it was a quick wipe of the mouth, a loosening of the belt and then eyes down for Donald Russell’s new range.
Michael Caines at ABode, Glasgow
Lo, good people of Glasgow, please take a bow. All my preconceptions about you and your city have been Glasgow-kissed goodbye. From your stylish train station replete with Champagne Bar, to your Palladian architecture, your friendliness and your food, I concede I was wrong to think less than kind thoughts.
Wahaca- Soho
You have to watch what you say about Mexico and Mexicans, as Jeremy Clarkson found out. So lest the big guns of the PC police become brought to bear on me let’s be perfectly clear about one thing – my reluctance to eat Mexican food has nothing to do with any dislike of the country or its inhabitants, but stems from historical bad experiences of the stuff.
Pop up market at Thomas More Square this Thursday
Land Securities offers workers at Thomas More Square an exclusive pop-up food market aimed at making this Thursday lunchtimes more exciting.
Cognac Voyeurism
Girl stands on street corner, back-combing her boyfriend’s quiff; her designer dog artfully peeing against a sleek 4×4 parked outside Shoreditch’s restaurant-bar-club McQueen. It may sound like the story board for an advert, but this is the scene that greets me as I approach McQueen, an unlikely venue for a Voyer Cognac Masterclass
Trullo restaurant in London
Hurray, Trullo! Some nine months after it opened, I have finally been! Brushing past it on my way to Highbury & Islington tube, this esteemed neighbourhood restaurant, in my own neighbourhood, has been rammed happy every time I pass. It’s been impossible to book, I had to wait over a month for a two-hour window and that only at 7pm on a Monday evening but I pounced on it. This place is in high demand.
Bear decapitated in office
We washed ours down with tea, but of course the sommelier would recommend orange squash with added E numbers as the ideal pairing for the dish before running around the office breaking things and then throwing a tantrum and having to go to bed.