I have thought about the controversy this blog title might stir, but, yeah, I said what I said! Santa Maria Del Sur serve the best steak in this London Streets!
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Social wine and tapas – mangalista pork, peppers and peanut butter parfait
Social wine and tapas is a wine shop and tapas place owned by Jason Artherton. This was our first introduction to Jason Artheron’s menu and let’s just say, we were hooked.
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Lock down food adventures – Introducing the small plate series
Hi Garmanvsfood family. How is everyone holding up currently? The last few weeks have taken the world by surprise, we are in a global pandemic and no one is equipped on how best to address this!
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Salon – Coffee, Chocolate, Amaretto
FEBRUARY! universally known as love(rs) month if valentine’s day is your thing! And no! I am not being a sour puss lol! I just think there are other things that make it a unique month. It is the shortest, albeit, the coldest month of the year. Plus, payday comes round quick no?
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Sarap – dynamite Lumpia, market Fish Kinilaw and Lechon Liempo
Hi Garmanvsfood family, how are we doing? Counting down to pay day? January is loooonnng right? so, what have you lot been up to aside from secretly wishing for spring? please do not get me started on Valentine’s day fast approaching!
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Baan Khanita The Heritage, Iconsiam, Bangkok – because traditional Thai afternoon tea is a must
It is almost time to leave Bangkok and end this oriental tour. This past 4 weeks have been epic – reconnected with friends, met and made some new ones, seen some incredible sights and eaten some of the best food yet!
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Gaggan Anand Restaurant, Sukhumvit 31, Bangkok -🤔🙄😮🤨😋😀🥰😎
It is 2 days after Christmas and today is the day for Gaggan Anand! if you have been following and / or read (ing) the blog, we embarked on this maiden oriental tour since the beginning of December starting in Tokyo, Ho Chin Minh and now Bangkok, which is the last leg 😢
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Bo.Lan, Soi Sukhumvit 53, Bangkok – An essentially Thai Christmas dinner story
Merry Christmas Garmanvsfood family! Were you good this year? Did Santa visit? Are your Christmas stockings filled with goodies?😊 I truly hope so. Our Christmas morning started with some pool time. At breakfast, we relived our Jay Fai experience
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Raan Jay Fai, Phra Nakon, Bangkok – beer, friendships & The crab omelette
What a Christmas eve this has been! Today we witnessed the Legendary Jay Fai in all her element and this woman is a …… If you do not know who she is and you have Netflix, where have you been? Ok, fair enough if food isn’t your thing you could get a pass but still……
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Kinnaree Gourmet Thai by Vanessa Wu, Sukhumvit 8, Bangkok – finger foods and special cocktails
Dear Lord, Bangkok is hot! Phew! Since it is the last leg of what I dubbed our Oriental tour, we are slowing things down and not doing much of the touristy stuff. We are here to sample Thai Cuisine people, we focusing on that and only that 😊 !
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Baan Khanita, Sukhumvit 53, Bangkok – where the welcome is spicy and fish soup is king
Helllooo from the Kingdom of Thailand, Bangkok to be precise! It is officially winter season and the temperature is a currently 30+ degrees😎. Yep, winter for them, perfect summer weather for us
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Secret Garden, Ben Nghe, Ho Chi Minh City – Vietnamese tapas lunch and happy hour cocktails
Day 5 in Saigon and we have settled well into our rhythm of pool, sun, relax. We really are not eating much, no scrap that, let me try this again. We really didn’t have any food adventures planned because, aside from this being our first time here, we just didn’t know how and what to…
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Rice fields, Quan 1, Ho Chi Minh City – lunch in the Jungle, dinner at rice fields
Xin chào từ thành phố hồ chí minh meaning hello from Ho Chin Minh City aka Saigon. Yes, y’all we are in South Vietnam and have been here for a few days. The weather is fantastic! I have been soaking up the sunshine and getting much needed R & R sine we were always on…
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Café De Lambre, Chuo City, Tokyo – blanc et noir queen amber, coffee jelly and champagne glasses
This post is dedicated to the coffee house that is Café de Lambre. These guys make the best coffee in the world! Phew chile! these guys turn the traditional methods of making coffee into an art form. My lord the coffee here is amazing. I am a tea drinker, but, if I can get the…
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Higashiya, Ginza, Tokyo – Traditional Japanese afternoon tea Samajiki style
It is day 3 of our 6 days in Tokyo and we are still loving it. Even though we have been on the go non-stop. It literally was a case of doing the most
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Gyu-An, Ginza, Tokyo – Bad ass women + efficiency = best Kobe beef steak
We are in Japan folks! It seems ages since the last food adventure. How are you garmanvsfood family? You counting down to Christmas? Shopping for family and friends who are on your list? Gosh I still can’t quite believe that we are coming to the end of the year and about to start a new decade?!
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The Square, London – Scorpion fish, Beeswax, Grouse, chocolate and hammer
Lisbon was awesome but it is good to be back home. How are we? It has been an eventful September so far, doing the most with friends and family. I took my dear friend to a boodle fight aka kamayan
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Restaurant Sala, Lisbon, Portugal – ham brûlée, mushroom ice cream, wood and leather
It is a few days into our city break, and Lisboa has just been fantastic! I have soaked myself in the 30-degree sunshine. I mean come through sun kissed skin in September!
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Local, Lisbon, Portugal – 2 chefs, 10 seats, banana and cheese
For our city break this time round, we decided to try somewhere other than Barcelona, and here we are in the gloriously sunny and hot city of Lisboa!
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Petrus by Gordon Ramsay – flavour at first bite
Hi Garmavsfood family! How are we lovely people? You guys out there enjoying summer? Eating, drinking and living your best lives? Well I hope you are. North Sea jazz festival was freaking brilliant!
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