Restaurant find: Mildreds London
Daniel Acevedo’s spring menu reads like a vegetarian porn script. The head chef of Mildreds Soho branch ”“ and the more recent Camden and Kings Cross spots ”“ teases tastebuds with bowls balanced with flavours from across the globe. Acevedo’s training in Greek, Italian and pan-Asian restaurants in and around Melbourne, as well as a stint in […]
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Café Find: Mammouth Brussels
If you happen to be stuck during lunchtime somewhere near Brussels Midi station (an area better known for Starbucks cafés and Ibis business hotels than for trendy lunch spots), an oasis of healthfulness, eclectic design and natural light can be found just a few streets away. Mammouth is a lunchtime café bound to brighten your […]
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Restaurant Find: Graanmarkt 13 Restaurant Antwerp
In the basement of Antwerp’s chicest concept store, Graanmarkt 13 (a boutique, gallery space and small design hotel) is one of the city’s most lauded restaurants. As with Graanmarkt 13’s other ventures it goes without saying that the restaurant’s interior design and ambience has been undertaken with staunch consideration and detail. However, this in no […]
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London Restaurant Find: Ottolenghi
OTTOLENGHI, ISLINGTON Yotam Ottolenghi, best known the world over for his imaginative and beautifully photographed cookbooks (Plenty being my fave), is also known by lucky Londoners for his delightful little restaurants (Islington being my fave). You see, I used to live right on Upper Street where Ottolenghi’s Islington outpost is located and each day walking […]
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Mid-week clean and lean catch-ups: Lemony leeks with kidney beans and feta
My latest obsession is with maintaining a clean and lean lifestyle. Thankfully all of the ladies in my life are on the same post-holiday health kick so it’s been a real group effort to start the year on a health high (we’ll forget the few momentary lapses we’ve had on a couple of the weekends […]
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The roasted vegetable tart that started it all
This roasted Mediterranean vegetable tart was the beginning of my latest cookbook obsession. The Yotam Ottolenghi Plenty book was a birthday present from my brother in London who loved Yotam’s bustling Islington restaurant and felt that I should own his latest cookbook (Thanks Robert!). To tell you the truth the book sat there collecting dust […]
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