£18 for three courses and £15 for two set is the set lunch deal now on at Cinnamon Kitchen, a place I always look forward to visiting and which never lets me down. As I’ve said before, it’s remarkable to think that Brick Lane is just a few hundred yards away and yet the class of cooking couldn’t be further apart. We tried the lunch and it’s as good as it gets. No, it’s better!
Enter the Kitchen Italia Recipe Challenge and win a meal for a year
Enter the Kitchen Italia Recipe Challenge and you could see your very own favourite pasta recipe on the Kitchen Italia Spring 2010 menu and win a pasta meal at the new Kitchen Italia in Covent Garden every day for a year
Bumpkin London
It has taken me a long time to finally dine at Bumpkin, having made countless bookings in the past and had to cancel them for one reason or another. Having made it here at long last, it was perfect for a pit-stop for a comfort meal on a Winter’s day.
Pulp – a smashing way to eat fruit.
According to statistics, some 73% of people do not eat enough fruit each day. This sobering statistic inspired the people behind new company Pulp Fruits to develop an innovative way of eating fruit – handy pouches of thick blended fruits.
Meat is mutter- conversation, information, fine steaks and wine at Bumpkin’s first dinner club of 2010
Bumpkin of Notting Hill invite you to hear Frank Godfrey talk about his free range and additive free meat and then settle down to a dinner made of his finest cuts, all server with wine of course.
Fruit Pastes, an alternative accompaniment to cheese
The concept of mixing sweet with savoury is, of course not a new one and many of us have adorned our cheese boards with voluptuous bunches of juicy grapes to pluck and nibble along with those tangy, cheeses at the end of our dinner parties. Now you have the opportunity to introduce something rather different to your cheese boards in the future.
PizzaExpress go light and lovely
Pizza Express are jumping on the New Year guilt train, now calling at all stops until Easter. Their new Leggera pizzas are made as normal and then the centre dough is taken out and replaced with salad. This makes them around 500 calories each and with less than 5g saturated fat. Nice
Mooli’s, London
Great wraps, honest and healthy and fresh. Could be served hotter both in cooking and spice terms, but then to be fair it was actually snowing outside when we ate them. The décor is a bit like a suburban health centre, cold and rather heartless, but then most people will be in and out before they notice that. Probably easier for the young team to clean, too.
Great risottos start with Gallo
I like making risotto. I like the fact that you can’t walk away (whatever Delia tells you) but must stand patiently at the stove for around twenty minutes, adding small ladles of hot stock and massaging it into the rice before adding some more. Here’s Gallo simple guide to a great risotto. perfect for winter nights.
Bob Bob Ricard, London’s Diner Deluxe, Launch Winter Warmer Cocktail
It’s cold out there. At least it is for us Soft Southerners, our Geordie art director maintains ‘ye is all poofs man! This is t -shirt wevver where I come from, ye knaa’. Mebbe so, like. So we need warming up and Bob Bob Ricard has the answer.