Is there actually any point in venturing into a restaurant in the run-up to xmas? You just KNOW that it'll all be about mass catering, portion control and having to share oxygen with once-a-year office party amateur drinking wallahs. Fair enough tho eh, they leave us alone for the other 50 weeks...
B&H lowest food hygiene ratings announced in today's Argus:
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/17260029.food-venues-with-the-lowest-hygiene-ratings-in-brighton-and-hove/
Went to Tayyabs in Whitechapel in midweek in a group of six. Was intrigued as this venerable East End institution (est. 1972) seems to be the ultimate Marmite dining experience. Either 1 star (like its hygiene rating!) or 5 star, according to taste and/or after effects. Have to say its...
Having a few times booked a table for 2-4 people at a restaurant and found myself sharing a restaurant with a large group booking, my heart always sinks when this happens. Catering for a large group is invariably - or at least in my experience - detrimental to the dining experience of the other...
Ah, right, cheers for the link. The paddle type thing with the samplers in. Have had them many times, most recently at the Stone & Wood brewery in Byron Bay and the Madeira Beer Lab in Funchal (look at ME on my holidays!) Just never knew they were called beer flights, just thought they were...
In these post-KFC dog-days, us fast-foodies need a new fix in town. Step forward Taco Bell. Conveniently situated halfway along a pub-crawl of the many so-so pubs of Western Road, TB shone out like a veritable beacon of tasty possibilities. Small, buzzing, seemingly chaotic, it works remarkably...
Have to say HT, much as I love and respect you as a man - in the non-biblical sense obviously - I would literally FLEE any restaurant serving such vile-sounding starters. To the great unwashed uninitiated such as moi, every single element of those starters is something you'd like to think you'd...