June 2009
2 posts
A new future
You may have noticed that things have been a bit quiet here over the past few weeks. I started this blog a few months ago and didn’t realise just how much I was going to enjoy working on it. The problem is that The Grumpy Cook name was just plucked out of the air and now that I want to put a lot of effort in to this I want to choose a name and image that is a bit more positive. I am in...
Scoop - the review that never was
I was going to do a review of Scoop in Covent Garden. Unintentionally I went on the hottest day of the year and it was after a boozy lunch at Terroirs (review to follow shortly). When I got there I saw a very long queue (pic below) and didn’t have to patience to wait, maybe I will go back some rainy day but maybe the amount of people in the queue speaks for itself.
May 2009
5 posts
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Picnic in the Park
Here in Blighty we have just had a bank holiday weekend and for once we got real bank holiday weather not typical British rainy bank holiday weather. It had been discussed over the last few weeks of having a picnic in a park, but the forecast was changing every day and as a result it wasn’t until Thursday evening that we decided to go ahead with it. I had hoped to do a real foodie picnic,...
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Hawksmoor
I was given the task of choosing a restaurant to take my colleagues out for a celebratory meal. I work with a diverse group of people and all my exotic suggestions were shot down. Then we got talking about steak so we had a bit of google for the best steak in London and Hawksmoor kept coming up. It seemed a bit pricey but since the company was paying we decided to give it a try.
From the...
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Sabor - South American goodness
The early May bank holiday weekend ended up being a bit of a gastronomic feast. First there was the best pizza ever followed by a fine home cooked breakfast then dinner on Sunday night at Sabor. This was not a planned visit, indeed it was a last minute decision. A quick search on Top Table for special offers in the Islington area identified a 25% discount on food at Sabor so we booked online...
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Golden Gate Cake Shop
I love Chinese food, and every time I walk through China Town in London I have a desire to go into one of the restaurants and stuff my face. Yet I always seem to have already arranged a meal for later on in the day, or more usually I have stuffed myself elsewhere. Well now I have found something that is not too filling but satisfies my desire for Chinese food. The answer to my problems was in...
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Franco Manca - Londons Best Pizza
If I was to be stranded on a desert island for the rest of my life and had to choose 3 food types to survive on for all eternity I would have to put pizza on the list. So it was with much excitement that I read about Franco Manca “London’s best pizza”. Last Saturday I was off to see a concert at the Brixton Academy, or as it now calls itself O2 Academy Brixton, so I grabbed to...
April 2009
4 posts
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Snacks at Damascu Bite
I was looking for a quick snack to recover from an afternoon strolling around Brick Lane and the surrounding area when I came across Damascu Bite. I wasn’t looking for a large meal just something to get me through the evening. A few snack at this establishment seemed just the trick.
Neither of us were particularly hungry so we decided to get four starters to share instead of the larger...
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Easter at The Albion
I lived in Angel for a year (almost a year ago) and it was only a few months before I moved out of my flat that I discovered The Albion. As my family live abroad I went there for Easter dinner last year with some friends who also were not able to get a good home roast, we were all extremely impressed. I then went back a few months later and had an amazing leg of lamb, so when I was reading the...
