A Pop-Up Logo for Me & My Pop-Up Dinners
From the inaugural BurgerMonday pop-up on 24 January 2011 with the Young Turks as guest chefs to the first FryFriday pop-up on 10 February 2012 with Anh Vu and Van Tran of Banhmi11 my dinners have been shared experiences only as good as - but, happily, every bit as good as - the London food obsessives who filled the tables and grasped what it meant to be, feel and eat … [Read More...]
The Best £2.10 Pizza Slice in London
The most casual follower of young&foodish already knows I am a most passionate supporter of Datte Foco, the Roman-style pizza shop in London's Stoke Newington. Pizzaiolo Herbie Leonelli bakes what are unquestionably the best rectangular trays of pizza al taglio ("cut") in London. Or he did so until very recently. My favourite of his many varieties: the classic combo of salsiccia … [Read More...]
The Best £1.50 Steamed Burger in London
Amongst several tiny outlets for baozi – Chinese steamed buns – along Newport Court, near the Leicester Square tube station in London's Chinatown, only the pork bun from the takeaway bun stall operated by Yang Guang Supermarket looks, feels and eats like a burger. A street food favourite in the heart of the West End, Yang Guang stuffs each bun with a plump little patty of minced and … [Read More...]
Alain Passard’s Secret Luxury: the Chicken Egg
When I saw pans of exquisitely decapitated egg shells protecting their reloaded yolks from direct contact with the simmering water I immediately reached two conclusions: First, the great Alain Passard was in the house, opening his menu at the Portugal International Gourmet Festival with his signature chaud-froid d'oeuf ("hot-cold egg"), a gently poached yolk topped with a spoonful of crème … [Read More...]
CoffeeSaturday Falls Back in Love With Cappuccino
When one great London coffee shop dared another great London coffee shop to park its espresso cart on its premises everyone's first thought was smackdown. But the docking of Flat Cap, as Notes Music Coffee mobile units are known, at Prufrock Coffee on London's Leather Lane was the main event of a "friendly" pop-up I organised to celebrate the release of Katie Parla's Rome For Foodies Dining … [Read More...]
