Yes! Yes!! Garmanvsfood fam, how we doing? Everyone okay? Good stuff. It’s a birthday celebration at Garmanvsfood HQ! Neal turned 21 (again) and we got to celebrate with lunch din dins at De Mondion!
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Elliot’s – cheese puffs, Chicken hearts, wild mushrooms & egg yolk
Since lock down 3 has ended in the UK, man them are out in the streets doing the MOST! People queuing for the pub at an ungodly hour on a MONDAY morning! The crave for a good ol’ pint in the pub is REAL folks!
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Lupins – fermented Cornish oysters? roast peach and ricotta on toast? – taster plates, British style
L U P I N S!!!! what a delightful place. Located in and around one of our fave places (Borough High street), it was love at first bite! So much so, we have been back on two separate occasions and have had LUPINS at home!
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Noni, Valletta, Malta – A love day special with sea Urchin, Pagru, pickled dates and Mgarr strawberries
I swear February has got to be the best month of the year. No, not because it’s your girls’ birth month or that it also is Valentine’s day, but the fact that it is the shortest month of the year! You finally feel you are getting over the January blues;
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Legligin, Valletta, Malta – tapas, baked goods, breadcrumbs, cauliflower grattan & fish soup makes a dope homemade taster menu
Well what do you know, it’s another trip round the sun for your girl! Last stop on the third floor yikesss! It was a good day today – started with the lovely sunrise and ended up with fab dinner with Chris and his team at Legligin.
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Undergrain, Valletta, Malta – torched scallops, ‘assiette’ of black angus beef & passion fruit and majoram sorbet; a Maltese delight
Tis the holiday season?! Whhhhaaaaaaaa…..what a difference a year makes eh? Exactly a year and 2 days ago we were in Bangkok having a one in a lifetime meal at Gaggan Anand restaurant. It was our last food adventure of 2019 and OMG! what a meal that was
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Flor – Crudités, Mutton, Hake and Orange wine
Flor was one of those places that was just unexpected and a joy to find twelve months ago! The food, the choons and the vibe?! FANTASTIC! Our day started with a visit to the moniker art fair in Chelsea. It was our first time visiting, massive s/o to my good mate Folarin for the heads up!
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The Dairy – Chicken liver mousse, Peach sorbet, Cherry bake well
Exactly thirteen months to the day today! What a day this was! Started with reggae brunch celebrating a friend’s birthday. Let me tell you something, I have never been to a reggae brunch before but boi! I am for sure going to the next one! It is a whole Vibe.
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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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Restaurant Heiligenstein, Baden-Baden – carrot soup, Duck salad and a scrumptious sundae
Cochem set the tone for our road trip, we were ready for more wines, Nürburgring type findings and excellent driving roads lol. Baden-Baden, our next stop, was a three-hour drive from Cochem, and we loved it!
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Sticky Mango – a little taste of South East Asia
Some of my friends still don’t understand why I spend hours eating a meal which they opine not to be filling very satisfying either.So, I decided that ever so often I would treat my sceptics to food adventure and here we are!
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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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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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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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Umami by Han, Rotterdam – Getting ready for North Sea Jazz festival with Chinese fusion food in Dutch?
It is North Sea Jazz festival weekend!!!!! I love festival season, going to performances, concerts, gigs and everything in between. When my cousin, Wana – a freelance journalist, poet, writer, performer and one of the most creative people I know (who loves festivals even more than I do),
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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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Pianeta Terra, Amsterdam – where slow food tastes the most delicious
Hey Garmanvsfood family, how we doing? We are midway through this year already! Hope the first half of the year has been kind to you and yours.
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