Asian food is as complex as the continent itself. For instance, the stir fry noodles known as ‘chow mein’ to the Chinese, is ‘pancit’ to the Filipinos as is ‘pad-thai’ to Thai people (in my opinion anyway).
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Restaurant Nigrum, Baden-baden – pumpkin goat cheese, parsley root, caviar fuss, spinach truffle jus – a German experience
Day 2 in Baden-baden and what a day it has been. Spent the afternoon sampling wines at Robert Schatzle, yep, #reislinghunt is very much live people! For din dins, we went into town, restaurant Nigrum and OMD!
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Tapisco, Lisbon, Portugal – People and good food done right
Tapisco happened a day after we had visited Local. What an adventure that was –the food was just fabulous. Anyway, it was a sunny afternoon in Lisbon, after being tourists for the day, we were hungry. Siesta, is not a ‘thing’ in Portugal per se, but on this particular day, we just could not find a place that was open
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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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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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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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The Clove Club – Anniversary lunch featuring Wiltshire trout, Aylesbury Duck, Hereford beef and English Strawberries
Hellooo July! Gosh time is flying by real fast. It seems like we just come back from our break in Sorrento but that was back in May! How you guys doing? We have gone past the half way mark for the year and its five, 5 months to Christmas …
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Don Alfonso, Sorrento, Italy – 129 year history, 1982 vintage & Eel ice cream
It’s that time of the year where we celebrate Neal’s birthday and we are back in Italy, specifically Sorrento. The first few days here were glorious, the weather was superb.
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Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, London – Jury still out on this one
The first time I heard of Heston Blumenthal was via the BBC series called Heston Blumenthal: in search of perfection in the early 2000s. At the time I was not that much of a foodie and focused on university
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Pollen Street Social, London – magic Chinese box & ice cream = GENIUS!
Its 10 days to Christmas! Where did the year go? We both cannot wait for Christmas break to just relax, spend time with loved ones and hopefully not binge on too many chocolates ha!
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Tyddyn Llan, Llandrillo,Wales – Celebrating Mama G
You probably read the title and gave up?! Ha ha! I ain’t mad at you. It is welsh and if you were hoping for the phonics of the word, so you can sound it out? Err…
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The Ledbury, London – Bantam’s egg is no ordinary egg!
Hey guys, how we doing? It’s October folks! Autumn is upon us, but we still feel the love of summer in the air. Summer ’18 has been glorious! Your girl still has not had the need to put on her tights since end of March?! Come through sunshine!
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Pollen Street Social, London – Social Sunday featuring my faves
It has been a few weeks since we returned from our South Africa break and you best believe I have been scouring the internet for independent wine shops that carry the pinotage wine!
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Restaurant Story, London – A lunch time Story with Nnenne
It is 9 days into the new year, so I guess saying HAPPY NEW YEAR guys is still ok right? Plus, it’s only been a few days since we returned from New York and I will never take British winter for granted, EVER! New York is COLD!!!!
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L’enclume, Cartmel, Cumbria – shaved truffle, buckwheat, ice & cream and a ’55 bottle of red
I have thought about the moment I would write about our experience in L’enclume. So many thoughts going through my head – will I be able to truly put down in words what an experience this was? How special this place is?
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Restaurant Story – Our Story night of storeos, dripping lard, orange wine and edible sweet wrappers
It’s been about 5 weeks since we have been back from our 17-day road trip around Europe celebrating Neal’s birthday. Summer ’17 has been pretty amazing so far.
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Le Millenaire, Reims, France – the moment asparagus, prawns & French caviar left us high and dry
We are in Reims; France. It is day 11 of our road trip across Europe celebrating Neal’s birthday. Since we are in France, we decided to try out French cuisine, you know the saying, when in Rome….
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