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Review: No 1 Vault at La Becasse
[singlepic id=466 w=280 h=210 float=right]Rumours of the death of fine dining are much exaggerated. In fact, I’d say that in dining rooms up and down the land fine dining is getting busy exploring new ways to stay relevant and special. I’m going to remember cooking my own steak at the Savoy Grill for a long …
Review: Purnell’s, Birmingham
[singlepic id=460 w=280 h=210 float=right]I struggle to love Birmingham. It’s handsome in parts, ugly in others, and sits in that uneasy size bracket where a city is too large to be friendly but too small to be metropolitan. Someone give me a list of reasons to love Birmingham and I’ll check them all out next …
Speedy Ceviche
[singlepic id=455 w=240 h=180 float=right]There was an obscure kid’s cartoon on Saturday mornings while I was at University. It was called Samurai Pizza Cats, it was a parody of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (bwa?), and the main character’s name was Speedy Ceviche. At the time I had no idea what “ceviche” was, except that …
Molecular gastronomics
[singlepic id=450 w=280 h=210 float=right]I got a Molecular Gastronomy Kit for Christmas! So once the enormous glut of seasonal food was chewed down to the last couple of mince pies and the final gobbet of Christmas pudding it was time to start playing the mad scientist… The kit is the MSK Molecular Gastronomy Starter Kit …
Review: Old Hall Persian, Dorrington
[singlepic id=444 w=280 h=210 float=right]Persian is one of the three “grand cuisines”, along with French and Chinese. For me it conjures up images of delicate meats cooked with perfumed spices and exotic fruits. Yet it isn’t something you see a lot of in provincial towns and cities (well, unless you want to count doner kebabs …