Good Stuff

Good Stuff and lots of it! Here’s the low down on some fine things to see, sip or savour – all of which I’ve recently come across and thought were worth sharing with you. Enjoy.

Pilsner Urquell Tankovna at Draft House

Draft House’s Seething Lane location has started serving Pilsner Urquell delivered fresh and unpasteurised direct from the Czech Republic from its own Czech made copper tanks. Aaaaah!

Curry Dave

Ocado recently started listed the Curry Dave range of Indian flatbread pizzas. Essentially naan with some spicy stuff on top, flavours include chicken korma, chicken tikka masala, chicken madras, and a vegetarian sweet potato with spinach. Dave himself came down from his base in Glasgow earlier this week for a UK launch party here in London. I was there and very much enjoyed sampling his range of currizzas. I liked the price too, which (at the moment anyway) is one pizza for £3 or two for a fiver.

Pulled Chicken at KFC

The last time I was asked to eat an “ultimate burger” I was on a boat sailing round the Faroe Islands. For a much different – and considerably more accessible – experience, KFC (UK) has this week launched its own Ultimate Burger as part of its new slow cooked Pulled Chicken range, “the biggest overhaul to its menu yet” since opening in the UK a half century ago. The burger features “two mini chicken fillets, layered with cheese, southern style coleslaw, slow cooked Pulled Chicken and Apollo lettuce, inside a sweet brioche bun.” I gave it a try at the outlet on Whitechapel Road a couple of days ago. Was it tasty? Yeah, but I reckon any future visits to an outlet of this chicken frying mega chain would see me sticking with an order of the Colonel’s Original Recipe. And as said in my KFC Me miniseries back in May, your local KFC probably shouldn’t be seen as ‘anything other than a place to have an occasional treat.’ Other items in the Pulled Chicken range include a Pulled Chicken Twister and The ‘Lil Wrap.

Billie’s Cafe

Last weekend Kemey and I were in Brighton for a wedding. Before heading back to London, we stopped at Billie’s Cafe for what turned out to be an awesome breakfast. Billie’s Famous Farmhouse Hash (£8.10) was a mighty mound of “sausage, bacon, baked beans and mushrooms pan-fried in butter with homemade hash browns and topped with a fried egg and grilled cheese” which tasted great and kept me going until well into the evening. I substituted the beans for bits of black pudding – an excellent idea if I do say so myself. Kemey was equally satisfied with the All Day Jumbo Vegetarian Breakfast ($7.25). The setting at this three decades old “neighbourhood institution” was quaint and homey; service was too.