La Petite Cuisine, Cassis, France

Less than an hour’s drive south from Aix-en-Provence is the pretty port town of Cassis, which is *not* famous for creme de cassis but which *does* produce crisp, white Cassis wines. In addition to wandering the town’s pretty lanes, admiring the town beach, and taking a boat tour of the local inlets (les calanques), we [...]

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Restaurant Pierre Reboul, Aix-en-Provence, France

Jon and I just returned to London after a week in Provence. It was nice to get away, but the trip didn’t turn out the way I’d pictured. On the three days of sunshine we had, it was hard to relax because outside our rental house, workmen were chain-sawing the branches off gorgeous plane trees [...]

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Le Potager de Louise, l’Isle sur la Sorgue, Provence, France

Jon and I are spending this week in Provence with some friends who have a five-month-old. We feel like we were “just” here, but really it’s been three years since our last trip to Provence, and this time we’re staying in a different part of the region, just outside Aix-en-Provence in a small, charming town [...]

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Ba Shan, Soho

Despite positive reviews of Ba Shan in TimeOut and by knowledgeable blogger World Foodie Guide, I was reluctant to visit because of a horrible and expensive meal I had at Ba Shan’s older sibling, Bar Shu. Cue Jon, who occasionally gets to pick where we eat dinner. Last week, he was in the mood for [...]

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Pilpel Falafel, Spitalfields

Of the many amazing memories I have of my trip to Israel last summer, eating the best falafel and hummous of my life ranks up there. So imagine my excitement when Pilpel opened near Spitalfields Market (which is where I work). For the past three months, I’ve found it a colossal exercise of willpower to [...]

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Kai Restaurant (Chinese), Mayfair

Last week, I had dinner with Londonelicious and Gourmet Chick. Our choice of venue was Kai, a Chinese restaurant that was awarded a Michelin star earlier this year, which raised both its profile as well as diners’ expectations. (For a more complete view on our dinner at Kai, you’ll want to read Londonelicious’s post and [...]

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Young Bean, Barbican

Because two friends independently emailed me about Young Bean on the same day, I couldn’t not try it out. Young Bean is a mostly-Korean restaurant perched on a “highwalk” close to London Wall, but somehow, despite its isolation, the place was packed at lunch when I visited last week. Theoretically, £12 may seem a bit [...]

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My Old Place, Spitalfields

Back in January, I first visited the divey-but-certain-dishes-are-delicious Gourmet San, and so I was thrilled to learn that Gourmet San has a sister restaurant near Spitalfields Market called My Old Place (now that I work near Spitalfields, I’d like to find a nearby Chinese restaurant that’s good for lunch).  So two weeks ago, four friends [...]

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Quarterly Stats (July – September 2009)

Time for another quarterly stat snapshot and shout-out to the blogs and sites who send me an audience. With lots of overlap with last quarter, my top five  sources of non-google traffic this quarter were: Londonelicious Gourmet Chick Hollow Legs Lonely Planet Eat Like a Girl I trust none of the above sites need an [...]

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