Like Joanna, I have a list of food­ie delights to drool my way through over for the next couple of weeks cour­tesy of WOAP (although not as organ­ised as that spread­sheet of hers!).

Sat­urday com­menced the frol­ic with a Whisky Break­fast at Arthurs.  Four break­fast courses with four whiskys (in the food and accom­pa­ny­ing); it was always going to be down­hill (uphill?) from there.

In the interests of not being a spoil­er for whiskybreakfast-image-620x420any­one still to attend, I’ll just say here that my favour­ite whiskys were one and three and favour­ite courses three and four.  If you want to read more about it, you can zip across here to my per­son­al food­ie blog (the pic­ture at right a teas­er from the WOAP Whisky Break­fast promo).

Some of the oth­er delights I’m anti­cip­at­ing include a bur­ger or two (Hum­ming­bird cray­fish, Zico sal­mon flat­bread, Artis­an mini-sliders, Portlander wagyu), a din­ing offer­ing or two (Ti Kouka brunch, Muse din­ner), an event or two (Pecha Kucha, Oh La La French Chocol­at, Kakapo and Kai at Zeal­and­ia, Haute Cuisine du Terroir at Le Cor­don Bleu), and some vicari­ous liv­ing for all the fab events I could­n’t get to (Wakelin House for­agers din­ner, Bitch­in­heat)…

Fol­lowed by a week or two of bread and water to recov­er!

Aside from that, the oth­er new place you might be inter­ested in is Canteen in Bond Street.

This is a ven­ture by Mabel and Mack of the spicy sauces at the City Mar­ket (aka The Baker Boy Roy McFar­lane), with a cur­rent format of Monday to Sat­urday break­fasts, lunches and deli­cious bak­ing, and even­ings to come once the liquor licence is in place.  Maybe also fam­ily Sunday roast lunches once things are settled in.

Crisp and enti­cing décor, a little old world charm, 88 viet coffeegood food, and wel­com­ing staff; off to a good start then.  Def­in­itely one to check out if you’re in the neigh­bour­hood (and if you’re going to a Kirks WOAP event, you’ll get to try the Mabel and Mack sauces there too).

And to fin­ish this week, a pic­ture of Viet­namese cof­fee at Res­taur­ant 88.  Just because.

Enjoy WOAP.