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Champagne + Fromage

Maud’s ‘Frenchness’ adheres to the true Chocolat stereotype – pristine bob, chic wraparound dress and impressively slim in an effortless European way, despite an unholy appetite for cheese and champagne. Years ago she worked for La Semaine du goût (a week where the French strive to eat even more wonderful things than usual), before moving [...]

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“It’s like they’ve taken all the best parts of all the best restaurants and melded them into one ‘super pub’” Tom concluded as we left The Jugged Hare lastnight. Now, my boyfriend is a marketer’s dream—and a natural enthusiast about, well pretty much everything. But on this occasion, he wasn’t far off the mark. As [...]

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Just as the fashion industry decided that tribal prints were coming back in many, many seasons ago, so the movers-and-shakers in the food world predicted, mid-2011, that South American cuisine was going to be big in summer 2012. And sure enough, with the first sniff of spring, half-Peruvian and half-English restaurateur Martin Morales has launched [...]

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Apologies for the abject grumpiness in my last post. I had a temporary fall out with the very concept of food blogs after visiting the jam-packed and ultra-trendy Pitt Cue Co. It would’ve been amazing if it were a one-off, special find. But the overwhelming experience was one of queuing and overcrowding (two things I [...]

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It’s five minutes to six on a bitterly cold February evening and I’m waiting outside a bar near Carnaby Street. There are about eight people in the queue, rubbing their hands, stomping their feet and puffing cold air. The door opens and somebody sneaks out. “Are you open yet?” shouts a bald man wearing a [...]

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Dear readers, I apologise that it has taken me since Burns Night to construct a post – but I’m afraid that I’ve been busy indulging in my second-favourite pastime (second to this blog, of course): coming up with some devastatingly cunning business plans. I figured that if I come up with enough ideas, then one [...]

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Lots of my friends work in The City. This is a annoying for a variety of reasons. It’s annoying because I now know far more about insurance and reinsurance than I ever wanted to. It’s annoying because they get to go on corporate ski trips and I don’t. But most of all, it’s annoying because [...]

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I love Bethnal Green. I think that it’s one of the best places in the world and that any Londoner who lives elsewhere is a moron. For nearly two years I’ve been on a one-woman campaign to try and persuade anyone who doesn’t live there to move immediately. So far my conversion rate is nil. [...]

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Yesterday was St Andrew’s Day—and if that isn’t a reason to deep fry mars bars, use Irn Bru as a feasible cooking ingredient and persuade a piper to come blow his pipes in a requisitioned eel and pie shop, then I don’t know what is. With that in mind, I shotgunned a shift at Bonnie [...]

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As the (last) recession crept up, pubs and restaurants got a lot of airtime. And not for a good reason. Back in 2009, 52 pubs were closing each week and there was just a 20% chance that a restaurant would survive its first two years. Scrimping and saving was having a knock-on effect, and the [...]

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