I rarely take advantage of lunch menus at normally-expensive restaurants, because if I motivate to try out a pricey restaurant, I want to have the “full” multi-hours-long, appetizer-to-coffee experience. I figure you can’t really judge a place on a special lunch menu. Of course, you should never say never, and twice now, I’ve enjoyed the [...]
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St. Alban, Mayfair
Posted in Everyday in London, London Eating, tagged London restaurants, Mayfair, Soho, St. Alban's on September 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Hereford Road, Notting Hill
Posted in Everyday in London, London Eating, tagged Hereford Road, London restaurants, Modern British in London, Notting Hill, offal, Thomas Keller on September 22, 2008 | 9 Comments »
Regular readers among you have probably noticed I am a Thomas Keller fan. I love his cooking, his OCD perfectionism, and his taste. Years ago, when he lured Mark Furstenberg away from the BreadLine, the DC bakery, I was sad that my lunches at the BreadLine would never be the same, but I also knew [...]
Lobster: It’s What’s for Dinner (and Lunch. and Dinner.)
Posted in America, Travel, tagged lobster roll, nantucket, Straight Wharf Fish Store on September 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I was on Nantucket island for less than 48 hours to attend the wedding of two good friends. Their hospitality was such that Jon and I ate only one meal “on our own,” and for that, we headed straight to the Straight Wharf Fish Store. This Serious Eats blurb about the place called it “Nantucket’s [...]
Will wonders never cease . . .
Posted in Travel, tagged ferry to Nantucket, lobster rolls, wi-fi on ferries on September 12, 2008 | 8 Comments »
I usually resist the urge to blog in real-time when I travel, mostly to make sure I don’t miss the fun of traveling by obsessively recording it all. But right now I am 15 miles off the coast of Cape Cod on a ferry to Nantucket for the weekend, and I can’t believe I have wi-fi. I’m [...]
Huong Viet (revisited), Dalston
Posted in London Eating, tagged banh xeo, Dalston, Huong Viet, pho, steamed whole sea bass, Vietnamese in London on September 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Despite Huong Viet’s relative inaccessibility by tube (it’s a 15-minute bus ride from the closest station), Jon and I used to eat there once a month. The “hanoi” beef pho, the prawn banh xeo (Vietnamese pancake), and the whole steamed sea bass at low low prices made the 40-minute bus-and-walk journey from our flat worthwhile. [...]
Awana (Malaysian), Chelsea
Posted in London Eating, tagged Awana, Chelsea, London restaurants, Malaysian in London, South Kensington on September 7, 2008 | 13 Comments »
A month ago, Jon and I checked out the Malaysia festival near City Hall with our friends Andy and Maggie. Generally, I’m never excited about the food sold at outdoor festivals. Regardless of what culture or event the festival celebrates, food stalls usually end up selling a mass of undifferentiated spring rolls, fried rice and [...]
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