https://youtu.be/pFNc529k0Ns B Bagel Bakery makes their bagels the old-skool way: hand-rolled, boiled and baked, With locations in Soho, Fulham and Tottenham Court Road, it's my go-to resource in the heart of London for plain, sesame, poppy, onion or everything bagels...
Andrew's Cafe may have been gutted, but our memories of the kitchen takeovers that transformed a greasy spoon into a silver spoon endure. For our BurgerMonday, SpagWednesday, WichThursday, FriFriday, CoffeeSaturday and DeliSunday pop-ups, we drew culinary superstars...
The in-flight menu curated by Marks & Spencer for British Airways is packed with exciting beverage options. It's only available in the Economy cabin of short haul flights, sadly. After seeing the video below, BA passengers who who booked for Business Class...
As one of the 900 pizza-loving Londoners attending the 2019 London Pizza Festival, which returns to Borough Market June 2nd, you will not have to settle for just one or two of the showcase pizzas and forgo the rest. You'll be served quarter-pizza slices of all 6! The...
In winning the 2018 London Pizza Festival at Borough Market, Wandercrust did not establish itself as the best pizzeria in London. The result did prove that among six signature pizzas presented by six great pizza makers, the American Psycho was the preferred choice of...
As a lad, my father would take me to eat at Joe Allen, the enduring West Side gathering place in New York's Theatre District. He invariably ordered us burgers and not because it was the restaurant's least expensive main dish. Most of the Broadway personalities seated...
The 800 pizza-loving Londoners who attend the 2018 London Pizza Festival, which returns to Borough Market Sunday May 20th, will not have to settle for just one or two of the featured pizzas and forgo the rest. They'll be served quarter-pizza slices of all 6! The only...
Zobler’s Delicatessen, The Ned London's New York deli fantasy, is a really big deal and a good one. too. But because I fear its pleasures and prices may not endure, I've slapped a sell-by date on my recommendation. The ground floor of the 5-star Ned London, with its...
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Last night I had the pleasure of attending a spring pizza party at Radio Alice, the Hoxton Square pizzeria that will be competing at the May 28th London Pizza Festival. Radio Alice will open a second London pizzeria in Clapham next month. Testing out some new spring...
[rev_slider Focaccia] There are all sorts of good things to eat at the Mercato Metropolitano, the new, mostly Italian food market near London's Elephant and Castle (map), from Neapolitan pizza to fried calamari, gelato to stracciatella cheese. But the reason...
To celebrate the publication of Where To Eat Pizza, the 2016 London Pizza Festival featured 5 great pizza makers from the Experts' Guide to the Best Pizza Places in the World: The Hearth, Homeslice, Pizza Pilgrims, Rosspomodoro and Yard Sale Pizza competed for the...
[rev_slider meetthepizzas] These are the 5 pizzas to be featured at the London Pizza Festival this Sunday June 5th at Borough Market. Everyone who enters with a full admission ticket will be invited to try them all (or their vegetarian alternatives) and then...
To try the wood-fired Neapolitan-style pizza "perfected" by Team Heston Blumenthal you must not be carrying any liquids, gels, creams or pastes in containers over 100ml. That's because the pizza is served exclusively at The Perfectionists' Cafe, Heston's fast-food...
Competing for pizza glory at the 13th September London Pizza Festival the team behind Made of Dough chose to showcase its Chorizo pizza topped with spicy chorizo and piquillo peppers. The pizza dudes from Brixton clearly understood a factor that I, a Margherita man,...
Three new fast-casual restaurants bring pizza-by-the-slice to Charing Cross road in Central London. Here are my early takes based on single visits to NY FOLD, Fornetto and Vico. NY FOLD The New Yorkese way to attack a triangular slice cut from a large pizza is...
Vegetarian alternatives will be offered for the two pizzas containing meat. The £30 full ticket price includes admission, 6 quarter-pizzas and 1 Beavertown beer or soft drink. A limited number of £8 admission-only tickets are available for those...
Are you a conscientious cook who will only buy fish from someone who can tell you where, when and how it was caught? If so the eight words you most want to see or hear at your chippy may be the same as those you expect from your fishmonger: Our fish locally sourced...
Le Strade della Mozzarella (#LSDM) stopped in London on Monday to spread the joy of Mozzarella di Bufala Campana DOP and so did the master gelataio Simone Bonini. The craftsman behind the Carapina shops in Florence and Rome showcased stracciatella ("torn apart")...
The Young&Foodish year ended on a high note, with my signing on with Phaidon, the prestigious publisher of books by Massimo Bottura, Ferran Adrià  and René Redzepi, to compile a guide to the world's best pizzerias. This happy development should not come as too much...
"As with any recipe," writes Dino Joannides in his headnote introducing Spaghetti with Tomato and Basil, "success lies 75 percent in good-quality ingredients and 25 percent in execution." The maths may be problematic, leaving no room to credit the know-how, clarity...
Assimilating the young and foodish me into British life has proven more frustrating than expected. I assumed it would be easy for me to adapt to the London foodscape, given I was educated in New Yorkese, a language with vast similarities to English, and was already...
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Zan Kaufman of Bleecker St Burger won the Final of the London Burger Bash on April 5th at Borough Market with a combination of blood and guts. The blood refers not to the oozy redness of her aged beef patties, cooked south of medium rare, but to the dried blood in the...
The BurgerMonday Championship is the Wimbledon of burgers, a single-elimination tournament pitting 8 burgers greats –  Almost Famous, Bleecker St Bleecker, Burger Bear, Disco Bistro, Dip & Flip, Elliot's Cafe,  Hawksmoor, Honest Burgers – against one another in a...
When Alexis Gauthier  accepted my challenge to create a one-off burger for the January 27th BurgerMonday at Andrew's Gray's Inn greasy spoon I assumed he would reinvent, deconstruct, Frenchify or otherwise gastronomise the American classic. But the chef at Gauthier...
Mayfields may be a window box of a storefront East London restaurant treasured for deftly crafted small plates of boutique produce, meat and fish. Yet there was nothing dainty about the steakburger chef Matthew Young created for the January 13th BurgerMonday,...
[slider_pro id="56"] The Pavilion Cafe in East London's glorious Victoria Park is run by the team behind Elliot's Cafe. The familial resemblance is apparent in the careful construction of the Pavilion's new breakfast burger, which sits up as securely in its...
"I have something for you," said Londoner James Elliot, one of the Pizza Pilgrims behind the pizza van and insanely popular pizzeria of that name. "I'd like to you take it home and test it." I assumed the white pizza box Elliot handed me contained a pizza, albeit a...
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