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CCTV in Food Factories
The importance of having CCTV surveillance in your food factories Continue reading
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Win Dinner for Two at New Ceru Restaurant in Soho – Now Open!
Levantine restaurant, Ceru, has brought is delicious dining concept to Soho, with a second restaurant to complement its South Kensington location. Would you like a free taste for you and a foodie companion? Continue reading
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Honi Poke Fenchurch Street
Honi Poke has opened its second location in London, this one near Fenchurch Street Station. Already a fan of Honi’s original Soho site (it’s probably my favourite poke in town), I was glad to hear the new of a more easterly sister outlet – and even more so when I got invited round to for a taste. Continue reading
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Tagged american food, beer, city of london, Drink, EC3, EC3R 7NA, Fenchurch Street, Food, hawaiian food, Honi Poke, Honi Poke Fenchurch Street, New London Street, Poké, restaurants, reviews, Лондон, لندن, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Raising Eyebrows with Lowbrow Rosé Pairings (31 Dover)
It pays to think pink when shopping for sunny day refreshments to drink with easygoing eats. Relegated to its own odd corner of way too naff for a certain set of folks and far too hoity-toity for others, rosé wine is often overlooked as an ideal option for all sorts of laidback occasions. Fact is these people are missing out. Rosé goes great with all sorts of grub – and is usually nicely priced for affordable foodie fun. Continue reading
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Happy Birthday St Pancras International
St. Pancras International Station turned 150 years old yesterday on the 8th of May. The station is celebrating with a series of events named Celebrate St Pancras – the people, the place, the journey to mark the occasion. The events, exhibitions and installations have been commissioned to showcase the transformation of the station since 1868. Continue reading
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Chef Vivek Singh | #TCTalks Episode 19
I’ve been following the career of Chef Vivek Singh for nearly as long as I’ve been writing about food. So it was a real privilege to interview him for this 19th episode of tikichris Talks. During our conversation, Chef Singh and I talk about his new restaurant at the Battersea Power Station as well as how his take on Modern Indian cuisine helped shape how Londoners eat today. Continue reading
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An Evening of Meat at The Vaults
It’s not often I’m handed a scoop of chicken liver atop a savoury cone and watched as I take each bite. I don’t know whether to stare back at her, or if she wants me to smile and look away. She’s about two inches from my face and can hear the crunch as I bite through the cone despite the thumping music. We’re doing a dance, but I’m not dancing. Continue reading
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Chang Sensory Trails 2018 | 12 May | Last Days of Shoreditch
Chang Sensory Trails to Shoreditch to “deliver the unexpected” through a multi-sensory experience centred around Thai food, art and music taking place 12 May from noon to 10pm at Last Days of Shoreditch. Continue reading
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Good Stuff #75
Good stuff and lots of it! This latest list of good stuff comes from tikichris contributor Judith Schrut, who’s been visiting London’s 2018 Natural and Organic Products Show. Enjoy. Continue reading
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Olso Takeovers at Oslo Hackney
Mondays just got a whole lot better. DrinkUp.London have partnered with Oslo in Hackney to host what they call Oslo Takeovers. To cut a long story short, that means £6 cocktails. Continue reading
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The Tapas Room | #TCTalks Episode 18
The 18th episode of tikichris Talks features an interview with Chef Paul Belcher at the bar of The Tapas Room in Tooting Broadway Market. During the quick session at the bar we chat about Spanish food and wine, the end of his Donostia Social Club in Brixton, his second Tapas Room opening soon in Deptford and more big news. Continue reading
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Win 23-Piece Anne-Sophie Pic Box from Sushi Shop
The Anne-Sophie Collection from Sushi Shop features some of the most delicious sushi I’ve ever had the pleasure to eat. So it’s a pleasure to announce my team up with Sushi Shop for this competition offering the chance to win a box. Continue reading
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Yuu Kitchen Executive Chef Jon de Villa | #TCTalks Episode 17
Episode 17 of tikichris Talks has me visiting one of my absolute favourite London restaurants, Yuu Kitchen, for a conversation with its Executive Chef, Jon de Villa. During our quick chat, Jon and I chat about his culinary background, Yuu Kitchen’s Pacific Rim cuisine and new menu featuring a range of super flavourful Filipino dishes. We also talk about the stall Yuu Kitchen plans to open at Spitalfields Market at the end of April. Continue reading
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Eat Puglia | Index
Here’s an index for quick reference to all of Judith Schrut’s posts in her Eat Puglia series. Continue reading
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Tagged Drink, Eat Puglia, Food, italian food, Italy, Judith Schrut, pasta, puglia, restaurants, Travel, wine
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Vijay’s Bar & Lounge, Lokhandwala, Fitzrovia
Stylish Charlotte Street Indian Restaurant, Lokhandwala, has launched Vjay’s Bar & Lounge: a “speakeasy” above its main dining room. Continue reading
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Eat Puglia | Trattoria Terra Madre, Alberobello
Terra Madre (Italian for Mother Earth) is a bio-organic farm-to-fork restaurant, one of a growing number of such eateries taking Italy’s culinary imagination by storm. It’s set in the traditional trulli village of Alberobello, with the restaurant itself made from four beautifully restored trulli cones. Continue reading
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Tagged Alberobello, antipasti, Eat Puglia, Farm to fork, Food, garden, Italy, Judith Schrut, organic, pasta, puglia, restaurants, salad, Terra Madre, Travel, vegetables
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Joanna’s in Crystal Palace Celebrates 40 Years with Vintage Specials Menu
40 years running and still going strong, Joanna’s in Crystal Palace is celebrating its four decades of delicious dining by showcasing some of its original and locally preferred dishes. Continue reading
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Tagged burgers, cheeseburgers, Crystal Palace, Drink, Food, hamburgers, London, restaurants, reviews, SE19, SE19 1RX, south london, Westow Hill, Лондон, لندن, ロンドン, 伦敦
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Eat Puglia | Itria Bonta Cheese
In charge at Itria Bontà nowadays is Giorgio Spalluti – aka “Big George”– who makes his cheese entirely by hand, using traditional methods learned from his father and grandfather with milk from the farm’s herd of Freesians. Continue reading
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Tagged burrata, capocollo, cheese, Eat Puglia, italian food, Italy, Itria Bonta, Judith Schrut, Martina Franca, mozzarella, puglia, pugliese, Travel
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The 8 Places for the Best Burritos in San Francisco (Going Places)
On a mission to experience the biggest, baddest, and most bodacious burritos in the world? San Francisco is top choice for most chowhounds seeking to call it a wrap on where to enjoy this most delicious of Mexican dishes. Continue reading
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Win a Taster Box of Award-Winning Hand Cooked Corkers Crisps
Who wants a free batch of Corkers’ extra crispy pan fried crisps made from potatoes grown on a hundreds-of-years-old family farm in the rich Fenland soil of Cambridgeshire? Keep reading. Continue reading
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Eat Puglia | I Pastini Winery
Judith Schrut has a taste of wine at I Pastini Winery on her tour of Puglia. It’s approaching early evening in Puglia’s lush Itrian Valley and time to enjoy that important Italian tradition known as aperitivo– socialising over drinks and snacks … Continue reading
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P.F. Chang’s Asian Table, Great Newport Street
If you’re on the hunt for a fun place to eat where flavour and efficiency matter more to the occasion than finesse and fuss, P.F. Chang’s should fit the bill. Continue reading
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Eat Puglia | Pescaria, Polignano a Mare
It so happens that Polignano has many seafood restaurants, and choosing where to dine can be really difficult. We decided to follow the locals. And they were flocking to Pescaria. Continue reading
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Kinky Ping Pong
Dinner and a show with a one-minute stroll? Here’s a great date night idea: dim sum and drinks at Ping Pong Covent Garden followed by catching a performance of Kinky Boots just round the corner at the Adelphi Theatre. Continue reading
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(Northern) California Dreamin’ | Index
Thanks for joining Judith Schrut on her Northern California road trip. Continue reading
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Eat Puglia | Trattoria Il Brigante, Monopoli
It was our first morning in the bright sunshine of Puglia– leaving snowbound Britain a few hours before on a crack-of-dawn budget flight from Stansted– so I was understandably eager to savour and set my teeth into the local cuisine. Continue reading
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Tagged antipasti, Eat Puglia, fish, italian seafood, Judith Schrut, liqueur, Monopoli, pasta, puglia, restaurant, sea urchin, seafood, shellfish, strascinate, Trattoria Il Brigante, Travel, Via Cavaliere
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Mahiki Kensington
I hadn’t been to a tiki bar in ages (a sad thought for a fella going by the online moniker of tikichris). So the invite to take a tipple and nibble at Mahiki’s new(ish) Kensington outpost was welcomed with a readily returned response. Continue reading
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Tagged BARS, cocktails, Drink, Food, kensington, Kensington High Street, London, Mahiki, Mahiki Kensington, restaurants, reviews, sushi, tiki, Tiki bars, Tiki drinks, W8, W8 4PT, west london, Лондон, لندن, ロンドン, 伦敦
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(Northern) California Dreamin’ | Monterey Bay
Judith Schrut spends the final part of her Northern California holiday chasing butterflies, sampling chowder and admiring marine life on the glorious Monterey Peninsula. Continue reading
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Eat Puglia
Certainly, with so much delicious food and drink to match picture postcard scenery and warm hospitality, your days in Puglia are sure to start and end with gorgeous gastronomy. Continue reading
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Nuwara Eliya I Top 5 Activities
It is near impossible to avoid the allure of tea plantations (which are inconceivably beautiful) and the chance to photograph the tokenised smiling faces of poverty within them. However, if you would like a more mindful experience here is a list of ways you can have a more discerning connection with Nuwara Eliya. Continue reading
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Brunch with Bea Vo | #TCTalks Episode 16
For the 16th episode of tikichris Talks, I catch up over brunch with Bea Vo – the Managing and Creative Director of Stax Diner, Boondocks Restaurant, The Famous Flames and the newly opened Butterscotch Bakery. During our meal, we chat about business, baking and Bodak Yellow. Continue reading
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Minimix at The Megaro
Alexandra Kalinowski gets dragged out for a night at a plush dive near King’s Cross. It’s not often you’ll find me out four nights in a row. But a bar designed as your personal minibar with unlimited help yourself popcorn … Continue reading
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Pedals in Puglia
The sun is out, the sea deep blue, your sexy (e)bike is beckoning you! Welcome to your first morning on Contrasts of Puglia, Headwater Holidays’ self-guided cycling tour on the heel of Italy’s “boot”. Continue reading
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Win a Craft Cider Taster Box from Crafty Nectar
I’ve teamed up with Crafty Nectar – the UK’s number one craft cider destination and subscription box – to offer one tikichris reader the chance to discover a range of award-winning ciders delivered direct to your door! Continue reading
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Kanada-Ya | #TCTalks Episode 15
Japan’s legendary Kanada-Ya has just launched its third ramen bar in London. This one’s on Upper Street near Angel Station. I think the generous bowls of ramen served at Kanada-Ya’s St Giles High Street and Panton Street branches are some of the yummiest things to slurp in town – and are well worth braving the sometimes rather lengthy queues to have. I love the classic tonkotsu (pork bone broth, chashu pork belly, wood ear fungus, seaweed and spring onion) with my noodles served “hard” (there’s a choice of soft, regular, hard and extra hard) with loads of grated sesame seeds sprinkled on top. Continue reading
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