Living without a kitchen is proving a challenge but I'm doing my best to still cook fresh food using only an oven. Seriously, you don't realise how much you use a hob, how important work surface is and how handy running water on the same floor as your limited cooking facilities are until you've lost... Continue Reading →
Mid-Reno Roasts: Volta, West Didsbury
Oh, I've started something now. Last week's Knutsford trip out was such a treat that the idea of visiting a different Roastie venue each Sunday has firmly taken root. Volta in West Didsbury was recommended as a must try and isn't somewhere I'd clocked as a roast dinner venue without that heads up (thanks Lottie!). It's a... Continue Reading →
Mid Reno Roasts: Old Sessions House, Knutsford
As much as I'm trying to still cook fab meals with an oven in the office, a fridge in a ripped out room and one sink in a far away bedroom, as the weekend loomed and the weather started to turn, both of us just fancied a soothing meal cooked by someone else, served by... Continue Reading →
Age Doesn’t Matter Unless You Are Cheese Or Wine
What to get the man who has everything and who doesn't eat cake eh, what a dilemma. Luckily the Nantwich Cheese Show came to my rescue, perfectly timed for Mr M's birthday. With two tickets and no breakfast, the aroma of over 4000 cheeses guided us to the depths of Cheshire and a great day... Continue Reading →
A Visit to Wahu, Spinningfields: Bright, fresh & godly
Much of the foodie offers going on at the moment involved gargantuan amounts of food, whether at supper clubs or at pop up events where the object is to try as much of the delights on offer as humanly and sometimes inhumanly possible. Not so at Wahu, which we called into last week, where the... Continue Reading →
Interior I-Spy: Granger & Co, Clerkenwell
Visiting stylish restaurants is a constant source of interiors inspiration and a way of keeping your eye on the latest trends as often the very cream of design experts are called in to help create a unique feel for new eateries. Whilst working our way around design venues at Clerkenwell Design Week, we called into... Continue Reading →
Friday Night Foodie Dates – Clucking Hell & Let’s Have A Meating
No better way to round off a busy week than have someone else cook for you and for the last two weeks, Friday night has been spent enjoying Supper Club events at the Drunken Butcher's house being fed to the brim in his own inimitable style. For both Let's Have A Meating and Clucking Hell,... Continue Reading →