I was lucky enough to be invited to Montpellier recently, to visit the home of Alain Coumont, founder of Le Pain Quotidien, an opportunity I could not pass up. If you’re not familiar with Le Pain Quotidien, let me fill you in….it is a restaurant and boulangerie chain known for…
As you may already know, I absolutely adore London. I am pretty much obsessed with it and every single day I feel lucky to be living in this incredible metropolis. I genuinely still get butterflies in my tummy when I walk around it and love that I discover new things…
A couple of weekends ago, I had the pleasure of spending a wonderful afternoon learning how to make sushi. I’ve dabbled in a bit of sushi making at home with friends, but it has never turned out particularly well. So when I got the opportunity to attend Reiko Hashimoto‘s sushi…
I absolutely LOVE a good hot chocolate. When the temperature outside drops, the first comforting thought in my head is that I have a good excuse for a hot chocolate. I just love getting out of the cold and into the warmth of a cafe or restaurant…the anticipation as I rub my…
London is an ever-evolving beast of a city. It moves at 100mph and if you don’t keep up with it, you can easily miss all the new openings around the city. Every week, my inbox is flooded with newsletters filled with news of a new restaurant concept, a must-see pop-up,…
I had quite a different eating experience in 2015. After years of stuffing myself with butter, cream, cake, chocolate, crisps, pastry, burgers, cheese, bacon….well, you get the picture, I suddenly felt the need to eat a little ‘better’. As much as I loved my diet of fat, my body didn’t…
So here we are at the end of another year. How does it fly by so quickly? The last 12 months has seen some pretty big food trends taking over our lives and our instagram feeds. From the weird world of spiralising to the wonderful world of bottomless brunches, 2015 has been…
Everyone loves a good hamper, don’t they? And with this being the season of giving, what’s better than the gift of food? Christmas is a time for indulging…forget about the diets, its all about letting go, undoing the top button on your jeans or unzipping your skirt and diving head first into…
December is now upon us and with it, the inescapable, yet exciting build up to Christmas. The lights, the music, the decorations, the tear-jerking adverts, the parties, the food, the drink…the hangovers! It is also that time of the year when family ask you what you would like for Christmas and…
One of my biggest pet peeves about eating out in London is the whole no-booking policy many restaurants have adopted. It drives me mad. Especially when the places that do it are all the places I want to eat in…Barrafina, Copita, Polpetto, Mildreds, Dishoom, Spuntino, 10 Greek Street, Hoppers etc. (Just…
Dating is a tricky business, especially in a city as large as London. On the surface you would think it must be easy as there are so many people, so much choice, but that just makes it harder. Try Tinder you say? That just makes it worse! I fully believe…
I started doing my grocery shopping online a couple of years ago. Looking back, I can’t believe I spent so much time traipsing up and down those aisles, queuing up at the till, running back to the far end of the supermarket because I’d forgotten something, then packing everything up, driving…
