Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label food. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Dinner


Not that I need to say but... Everything was beautiful and tasted perfect.

I think fine dining is best enjoyed with friends. I really hate it when I feel awkward about eating. Always ends up with me half-eating my food and not enjoying any of it at all. With family and close friends it's a whole different matter though.. I like to leave a clean plate at the end of the meal, sometimes I can even go for seconds if I feel up for a challenge. Anyway, because there is this relation between my happiness and food, I get quite particular about things when we're dining out. Like if there is a booth seat I will always ask for it, and if I can opt to sit next to rather than opposite my dining partner I would like to do that instead too. With two people it's nice to sit at a corner rather than sitting across from each other, which feels a bit like a job interview. I think tables should always be small enough to ensure that there is no more than an arm's length between you and the closest person.

Call: 020 7201 3833



Sunday, April 8, 2012

Goodman Steaks



2 weeks ago on the last day of term we went to Goodman City for our Friday night supper club and we ate what is likely to be the best steak I have ever tasted - the wagyu which costs maybe double of every other cut, but is so worth it. Once the plate hit the table we all went for it and immediately regretted it because the Black Angus just couldn't hold up against its competition. Note to self: always eat the good cuts before the BEST cuts to maximise total utility.

City:  11 Old Jewry, EC2R 8DU
Mayfair: 24-26 Maddox Street, W1S 1QH
Canary Wharf: 3 South Quay, E14 9RU


Monday, April 2, 2012

Barcelona, Food



patatas bravas + foie on egg sooo tasty omg












Tapas:
Ranked in order of how tasty their patatas bravas were
Good: Que Que, Passeig de GrĂ cia
Better: Alta Taberna Paco Meralgo, C/ Muntaner
Best: El Quim de la Boqueria, inside Mercat de la Boqueria on La Rambla 

Restaurants:
Omelettes and cool vibes: Flash Flash

Markets:

Others:
Happy Pills, multiple locations (more pix here)

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Happy Pills, Barcelona


 
 



Happy pills for cheap thrills

Barcelona, Spain
- Acrs 6, 08002
- Aregnteria 70, 08003
- Rambla Catalunya 14, 08007
- Avda. Diagonal 557, 08029

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

West End Girls

We are really lucky/lazy girls, spent the entire weekend going up and down Wardour Street in Soho, all over the W1 from Chinatown to Carnaby Street to Charlotte Street... We get around by deciding where to eat.

Ordinary mode of operation within Soho
roughly in order of distance from our flat, south of Oxford Street
ATMs, Tesco on Dean Street
Vietnamese: Cay Tre 
Udon: Koya
Korean: Arirang
Non-mealtime snacks/desserts: Princi
There are no seats in Princi: L'eto Caffe 
Cupcakes: NOT Hummingbird - go to Lola @ Topshop Oxford Circus
Drinks: Kettner's

Taiwanese/Chinese: Leong's Legend
Roast meats: Four Seasons 
Chinese Desserts/Trash Talking: Candy Cafe 
Singapore/Malaysian: C&R Cafe

The list is lame, so Asian but that's how we roll. Noodles and rice = homely comforts. 

Weekends are special, so on Saturday night we went to Wright Brothers' Soho Oyster House.







Dozen oysters, Crab cakes, Pork belly + clams



Surf + Turf: Steak + langoustines




If I were rolling in the deep I would do this more often.. oysters + steak + chocolate dessert (the chocolate praline pot is so magical, like eating Nutella out of the pot but classy). Tummies filled we headed off for the rest of the London night, starting from home and then moving into progressively blurrier space... finally ending with a 4am rickshaw ride back to Charlotte Place and getting tucked into bed by my lovely friends.


Thursday, February 2, 2012

Friday, December 2, 2011

Ozymandias

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: `Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear --
"My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.'
- Percy B. Shelley

I love this poem so much.

Being unwell has forced new awareness of my self-determination - getting out of bed in time for class feels like a small miracle considering what an absolutely shite state my body is in. It's enough to make me ditch all (chocolates, cold drinks, cigarettes etc) so that I'll be good and ready to eat my heart out this weekend - burgers(Lucky Chip/Meat Liquor), bloody steaks and beef drippings chips. MEAT.


Saturday, November 19, 2011

NYC #3: Random Snaps







What a amazingly coherent set of pix

1, 2. James Turrell: Meeting, Moma PS1. Incredible site-specific installation, literally breathtaking.
3. Shake Shack + Madison Square Gardens = Best burger experience known to man
4. Classic Park Cheese - Soho Park (better than o.k.)
5. Best fucking sandwich in the world - Luke's Lobster
6. Saw this in the Museum of Arts and Design's jewelry exhibition... Great way to accessorize with cigs

If you wanna read more about the food go check out the NYC page here

Monday, November 14, 2011

On Aura Tout Vu




Watch the video in fullscreen... Even in crappy internet resolution the drop still makes my stomach drop. One day I will ride this rollercoaster for real.


Reading week was underwhelming, I really prefer going to class and dealing with the day to day readings and work. The best thing was having my dad around and visiting my cousin... Family is the best thing in the world, even though capitalism has supposedly caused the disintegration of familial relations. Reading Marx is really the most uplifting yet depressing academic experience I have had in a long, long long time. 


Also, I ate at Nizuni 3 times this week, so I think our relationship is getting quite serious. It started out as a convenient affair (literally 2 minutes from my flat) but the service is so endearing and the food is so good I really can't be bothered to go anywhere else. 



Sake Don

LOOK AT THAT BEAUTY. I almost burst into tears when the waitress brought this to our table. For around £10, you get: 
  • deceptively large serving of rice
  • a veritable Bitchload (12 pieces?!) x salmon sashimi 
  • 1 x  good load of roe
  • 1 x pickled ginger, wasabi 
  • 1 x tasty salad (i need to know what dressing is this, it's so #@^%$@ tasty)
  • 3 x hunks of tamago (why?? why not??)
  • 1 croquette (again, why?? but seriously, i don't care)
  • 1 x quail egg (when was the last time I ate a quail egg???)
And all this time I had been living with plain salmon+roe+rice Sake Don... God just look at the picture, the composition is so perfect!


*** Alright this is by no means an objective review, I just love this place so much and it is really, heads and shoulders above the many Japanese restaurants in Soho/Fitzoria so if you want to get in on the awesomeness, head there asap >>


Nizuni 
22 Charlotte Street
Fitzrovia
London, W1T 2NB
Tel: 020 7580 7447
http://www.nizuni.com/


Even the website is adorably quaint and super Asian~

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Fungry

Have not been eating very well since the boyfriend left London...




Fantasizing about Iggy's and Salt Grill probably makes it worse :(

Friday, September 30, 2011

Eating NYC

I have a ton of things to blog about but the first thing will be food because imma fat bitch like that!

I put it all on my NYC page as linked at the top of the page. I just spent like 2 hours doing it so go and read it, thx

It's just a bunch of food places I tried and liked for NYC, divided into two lists - Burgers and Other Stuff. That's kind of how I organize my eating experiences. This list is SO minimal because all I did was hang out in the NYU area, but I hope to add more stuff on it after more visits :)


This is how lame I feel writing about food

Monday, April 25, 2011

INCAPACITATION WEEKEND

When you're already on spring holiday, Bank holidays are just an inconvenience. Now that all the libraries are closed my productivity is shot. Currently reading thingsweveeaten and wikitravel pages for Brussels and Antwerp when I should really be reading The Republic

pix from when wz was in London visiting which makes me a bit sad now:














1. Yam's and his girlfriend
2. Wz and his girlfriend
3. Koya has great tempura. Going early = no queue
4. Outside British Art Show at the Hayward Gallery. I really like the South Bank area
5. Buying pork belly sandwiches at Borough Market's Roast yum
6. Burgers at Byron. Nice reliable place. It kind of reminds me of OverEasy(in Singapore). This was before I knocked over the milkshake which was just as well because it was way too much for the two of us(thankfully they were really nice about it).