Been sharing tweets with Dan De Gustibus about his bread. These are his recommendations: Oxford Sourdough, San Francisco Sourdough, and Old Milwaukee Rye:
Met Rasmus Bo Bojesen, the owner of Oialla chocolates as I was wandering through the food section of Harvey Nichols. Made from wild Criollo cacao beans from the jungles of Bolivia dating back to 1000BC. The 70% chocolate is more like Amadei Chuao than Willie’s chocolates.
Pierre Koffmann is the chef responsible for Gordon Ramsay and Marco Pierre White. Now in his sixties this is his restaurant at the Berkeley hotel. We went there for lunch with our dear friend Yanti who’s visiting from NYC and had a wonderful lunch. Desert of pistachio souffle finished it off perfectly. Famous for his […]
OXFORD, UK – 13 October 2011: A plate of fish and chips at Marco Perre White’s Yew Tree Inn. The inn is a 17th century building in near Highclere Castle. Although Marco wasn’t there you can almost hear him yelling “10 quail 10 quail” from his guest appearance on Master Chef.
Round 1 of the Under 16 Oxford Mail Girls Football League started today for the Summertown Stars FC. Click for more photos:
So, after lunch at Dinner by Heston I strolled across the road to Harvey Nichols and found some creatures for sale in the food department. Worms, scorpions, ants…:
Here are some photos from today’s lunch at Dinner by Heston. As expected, it was perfection. Excellent service, excellent wines and lots of items on the menu to want to eat. Easily a 2-star Michelin when it gets rated. The restaurant is at the Mandarin Oriental in Knightsbridge: Lovely airy room: Lovely chewy bread: The […]
As I’m having a few RedTxt business meetings my favourite Salomon Gore Tex shoes isn’t the most appropriate footwear some of the time. I’ve had a few pair of shoes from Church’s shoes in the 1980-90s but I’ve not bought a pair of English shoes for 20 years. After reading a very informative series of […]
Bibury has been described as the most beautiful village in the Cotswolds. Here are some pics: And lunch at the beautiful Bibury Court Hotel: And some trout to take home from the trout farm for dinner:
It was beautiful weather yesterday so Kim and I did a walking tour of Oxford, which was really a tour of 2-3 colleges.
The Anchor is at the end of our street and it’s a great pub with a truly tasty steak. It was apparently the best pub food in 2011 according to the Good Food Guide.
Here’s a pic of the condo where we’re staying. It’s next to a canal and a cemetery. We can’t see the cemetery but some apartments overlook it: I wouldn’t want to live on one: because it’d be pretty noisy with all the quacking: And one of the stranger tourist attractions in town:
Based on consistent reviews on Trip Advisor we ventured off to the Horse and Groom in the typically English sounding name of Bourton-on-the-Hill. Here’s a picture of the food from the restaurant’s web site. Looks good. Sadly, what we got was a Cornish seafood soup with no evidence of any ingredients that lived in water, […]
Have a close look at the exorbitant rates and conditions:
Of all the TV chefs and 3 star Michelin restaurants, Heston Blumenthal’s The Fat Duck in Bray is the one that is the most theatrical. Having seen almost all his TV shows it was a thrill to finally get to eat there. We also bumped into Heston when we arrived in the car park. Bonus! […]
I haven’t driven a seriously fast car for the best part of 6-7 years. So caught up with some Melbourne friends on an Aston Martin drive day at the Millbrook Proving Ground. Just amazing. The venue allowed us to do speed runs, banked high speed testing, skid pan, handling circuit and an amazing alpine route […]
A fine thing to do on our first weekend in Oxford. Went to the Wychwood Forest Fair with Sir Hugo Brunner.
We’ve been on a lot of trains in the past month but the First Great Western train to Oxford didn’t have door handles. Here’s how you open the door: and the car parks are different here:
We did a double decker bus tour today on a cold grey summer’s day. It’s a great way to see the city: But we soon got hungry. We went to Goodman – a steak house in Mayfair. Nick and I met the head chef John Cadieux in Jun 2010. The place was great then and […]
We ate at Roka for lunch. After no Japanese food for a month, this was a taste sensation. Roka’s a great experience for traditional and new-style Japanese food: The standout dish was the rice hot pot with king crab and wasabi tobiko – Kani No Kamameshi. It’s served from an iron pot, mixed together at […]
Now that we’re in a new country it’s time to do the choose a mobile carrier shuffle again. And the lucky winner for 4 new prepaid customers is… GiffGaff. 3 UK’s All in one plans came very close but we’re going to give this MVNO that operates on the O2 network a go for a […]
It was fitting that our last meal in France was in Lyon, the gastronomic HQ of France according to many. And one of our best. We ate at Le Splendid, a Georges Blanc restaurant. I had the chicken from Bresse with a morel sauce. We’ve had this dish several times in France but this was […]
Our trip to France is winding up. We went to the town of Goudargues on Wednesday to check out the weekly market. Goudargues has a canal through the town and is called the Venice of Provence. Well, not quite: The stalls had the usual stuff, but this van caught my eye: After battling through the […]
A few photos from meals at small rural restaurants around Issirac. The first one is from Mas Rodières, about 50 minutes from our house: and then a place recommended by the wine shop in Chateauneuf du Pape, Gerard Alonso in Sorgues, a few miles from Avignon:
