Food

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2007/mar/10/foodanddrink.features

Janssens temptation works with all tinned fish in oil and is really fucking good.

^that sounds delicious. will definitely be giving that a go.

Anyone know of a decent cookware shop in westend way for a present?

one of my favourite dishes in the world:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2011/jul/20/how-cook-perfect-potted-shrimps

big yes to this!

sorry neu, only ones i know well enough to recomend are north.

last night's apres swim snack:

• chargrilled atrichoke hearts in oil (from sainsbury's)
  
• rough oatcakes, tapenade and gentlemans' relish. shhhhhhalty.
  
• a bottle of black sheep
  -tour highlights
  
  
  

one happy camper.

^^^ Kitchen Ideas on Bayswater Road. Tis an alladin's cave of kitchenwares goodness. What type of thing are you looking for?

Was thinking of a flashy small frying pan, but thought I'll see what else they've got.

Where were you thinking of dooks?

Good quality frying pans aint cheap, but that place on Bayswater road sells professional quality equipment and good prices, alternatively you could try John Lewis.

Yeah I know, that's why I might go for something else, a little gadget or something

Anyone know of a decent cookware shop in westend way for a present?

Page's (?) on Shaftesbury Ave (opposite Fopp) - they do professional stuff.
Divertimenti on Marylebone High St

Ta will check all out hopefully

john lewis?

the salad bar at my work today was WICKED someone went to town. Awesome greek feta fresh tomatoes and olives, a baked mushroom and chickpea thingand roasted califlour and beetroots. wow.

Thanks for recommendations, went to kitchen ideas on westbourne grove and got a creuset stainless steel pan on offer, 1/3 off. nice

Just walked to the bottom of my new garden and found an apple and plum tree in full fruit. Fuck yeah!

Pie +1

in which case crumble +100.

my latest fad is rediscovering Maltesers.

why, do you tend to lose them down the back of the sofa?

I don't own a sofa so don't have that problem.

I used to be able to levitate them by blowing them with a straw..
that was back when I used to smoke a lot of weed...

can do that without the straw, pause, then immediate guzzle. or it falls on the floor. weed may have been involved too...

Feels wrong to be lowering the tone on this thread but what the heck...it's the first time I've actually seen James leave a meal unfinished so I reckon it's post-worthy.

Taste buds (and indeed every other sense) assaulted tonight as we had to go to Revolutions in Clapham for a large group meal. I don't want to dwell too long on it, afterall you do know you're in trouble when the drinks menu is 7 pages longer than the food one so I wasn't shocked by the disaster which ensued. I am, however, always surprised by what passes for food in this country, even at a predominantly drinking focused venue.

Everything about the place is painfully wrong from the garish plastic decor, the unpleasant bouncers, shitty bar-on-a-Friday-night music which was played so loudly I gave up talking (while James actually left the building), two squawking hen parties kicking off right by our table...etc. But this isn't about those things sorry...How could they get these simple dished so wrong?

James' garlic and cheese bread was 'actually rancid' while my flabby grey bean burger came with greasy chips, a smear of what tasted like jam (onion chutney?), a dollop of warm curdled coleslaw and a teeny tiny salad which appeared to be literally so embarrassed by the other offerings on the plate it was hiding underneath the burger.

Yuck.

I suppose sometimes it's good to go to these places to remind ourselves why we choose to go elsewhere.

Does that sounds really f**ing snobbish? ^

Not snobbish at all. To stay silent in the face of mediocrity is to accept you've been fleeced. We're no good at complaining in this country, but I'm an expert complainer. I enjoy it. If it's crap, send it back.

They'll be shut in 6 months, no more trauma.

Not snobbish at all. To stay silent in the face of mediocrity is to accept you've been fleeced. We're no good at complaining in this country, but I'm an expert complainer. I enjoy it. If it's crap, send it back.

They'll be shut in 6 months, no more trauma.

Alas I think there must be hundred of Revolutions type places up and down the country THRIVING whilst serving up mediocre food to people too busy getting shit-faced to even care.

Sigh

It's hard being snob.

No, being a snob comes naturally to me. Attitudes are changing though. We're getting more clued up; still centuries behind the French though, but the more discerning we get the better. The opportunists will be finished then.