Our advice for Wellington on a Plate 2015

Tomor­row begins that most mag­i­cal time of the year. The stu­pid film fes­ti­val has released my friends from its evil clutch­es and it’s time to eat, eat, eat. We’ve been cov­er­ing Welling­ton on a Plate for a  long time now and I think we’re get­ting pret­ty good at know­ing what’s what. So here’s our thoughts. […]

LCB, TK and Sunday Stroopwafels

LCB.  Le Cor­don Bleu.  Learned culi­nary bestow­ers. Leg­ends of cre­ativ­i­ty and bon­homie (yeah yeah enough already…). The LCB WOAP Haute Cui­sine du Ter­roir on Fri­day night was pret­ty impres­sive (not least for being near­ly five hours of imbib­ing instead of the planned three!).  Sev­en cours­es of French food matched with each an old world Bur­gundy […]

Galaktoboureko, kakapo and orange ginger jam

Oops, its already Tues­day.  Too busy at WOAP Pecha Kucha Imbibe last night! I have to start this week with lunch on Sat­ur­day at Haya café, and in par­tic­u­lar the galak­to­boureko (an expe­ri­ence for the tongue in many ways!).  A greek sweet with semoli­­na-based cus­tard in phyl­lo, often served with lemon, orange or rose.  On […]

And so it begins…

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 […]

Wellington on a Plate is here again, hurrah!

Right now we’re knee-deep in deli­cious wine and food at the Welling­ton on a Plate launch at Pre­fab so if all’s going well, this post will go live right after the media embar­go ends. For now, here’s what we’ve writ­ten about Welling­ton on a Plate over the past cou­ple of years, and below is the […]

WOAP: just one burger

I’m run­ning out of food-relat­ed puns. I know right, what is this I don’t even. That’s how much I’ve been eat­ing and writ­ing and writ­ing about eat­ing late­ly. So let’s just get right into it, shall we? Just one review for you tonight. 1. The Great Philadel­phi­an Cheese­burg­er at The Gen­er­al Prac­ti­tion­er.  I’m no real­i­ty TV […]

WOAP overload: a plum and a duke

I love Welling­ton on a Plate, espe­cial­ly when I ignore my bank bal­ance and focus on tick­ing off as many lines as pos­si­ble on my spread­sheet.  I’ve got a cou­ple more places to review still, but in the inter­ests of actu­al­ly get­ting to sleep tonight, I’ll just give you two — Plum and Duke Carvel­l’s. If […]

WOAP: Bake Club

The first rule of Bake Club is you have to talk about Bake Club. That splits off into sub­sec­tions about using hash­tags and Insta­gram. The sec­ond rule of Bake Club is that I sup­pose a link might be help­ful. And the third rule is I’m going to put in a jump cut here. After the […]

More WOAP: the bland, the sublime and the curious

As I said before, I’m work­ing my way around the lunchtime Dine menus of places near my work. Here’s what I’ve got to report. 1. Vivant 2. Lit­tle Beer Quar­ter 3. Ti Kou­ka Cafe 4. Finc

WOP: The taste of happy

So, a cou­ple more excur­sions to restau­rants with Welling­ton on a Plate menus. I’m con­sid­er­ing going to the Ware­house and buy­ing a pair of elas­tic-waist­ed track­pants for the rest of Welling­ton on a Plate. Most recent­ly I paid a vis­it to Cuba Street icon Florid­i­tas and Hip­popota­mus at the Muse­um Hotel.