I’m sure this will get me slaughtered by my food and wine matching buddies but, sod it, here goes! Think back, long before the days when you started drinking wine. When you slurped Coke along with your beefburgers or Marmite soldiers did you pause to consider whether the combo worked? Did you, for tastebuds’ or ...
Tasting Notes, Wine & DrinkBe warned! The most urbane of meeters’n’greeters, the maitre d’ so silver-tongued he’d make Nat King Cole sound like Johnny Rotten, is a changed man since he got his hands on that bloody big sharp adze. No more “Ah Mr. Simpkins, how honoured…” – instead a quick flash of the blade and there’s another bit ...
BLOGSibella is out to dinner with her golfing chums. Which is why I’m tucking into bacon ribs, cannellini beans (no butter beans down the local deli) and Savoy cabbage, the sort of fare I always find for myself when milady is absent as she’s far too ‘refeened’ to partake of that good ole peasanty grub. ...
BLOG, Tasting Notes, Wine & DrinkThe burgeoning Chinatown in the hinterland of O’Connell Street has thrown up a good many restaurants, some worthy of a visit, some less so. These places are a world away from the Chinese restaurants we grew up with, a happy land of paper globes, toffee sauces and waitresses clad in whatever the Chinese equivalent of ...
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