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(P)review: Hanami/Cherry Blossom Festival Sake and Food Pairings (Londonist)

(P)review: Hanami/Cherry Blossom Festival Sake and Food Pairings  Londonist, April 9, 2009 8:30 PM Sake lovers and Japanese cuisine fanatics, London’s first Hanami gives us reason to rejoice! Sushi novices and shochu noobs, the 15th of April to the 25th … Continue reading

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(P)review: Monster Inked at Idea Generation Gallery (Londonist)

(P)review: Monster Inked at Idea Generation Gallery Londonist, April 8, 2009 5:09 PM Opening today at Idea Generation Gallery is Monsters Inked: Inside the Minds of the Gods of Monsters, featuring buckets full of fun-omenal works by Pete Fowler (wow!), … Continue reading

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Calçots and Romesco with Jennifer Klinec of Eat Drink Talk (Londonist)

Calçots and Romesco with Jennifer Klinec of Eat Drink Talk Londonist, April 3, 2009 11:07 AM  Life for Londonist just keeps getting yummier and yummier since finding ourselves in the good graces of Jennifer Klinec. We’ve been amazed by her … Continue reading

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Review: Royal Warrants Specialty Food and Drink Market (Londonist)

Review: Royal Warrants Specialty Food and Drink Market Londonist, April 2, 2009 5:19 PM Londonist made it over to the Royal Warrants Specialty Food and Drink Market (read our preview here) this afternoon and we were generally pleased with our … Continue reading

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Fish Fragrant Aubergines with Hollow Legs Blogger Lizzie Mabbott (Londonist)

Fish Fragrant Aubergines with Hollow Legs Blogger Lizzie Mabbott Londonist, March 31, 2009 1:13 PM Fish Fragrant Aubergines taste as poetically luscious as they sound, as we found out last night in the kitchen of food blogging wunderkind, Lizzie Mabbott. … Continue reading

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Preview: Royal Warrants Specialty Food and Drink Market (Londonist)

Preview: Royal Warrants Specialty Food and Drink Market Londonist, March 31, 2009 9:38 AM The Royal Warrants Association represents individuals and companies who have supplied goods or services for at least five years to HM The Queen, HRH The Duke … Continue reading

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2000 Square Feet of Free Fruit and Veg at Covent Garden, 1pm Today (Londonist)

2000 Square Feet of Free Fruit and Veg at Covent Garden, 1pm Today Londonist, March 30, 2009 12:33 PM The world’s purportedly biggest invitation ever has been created this morning at Covent Garden. Comprised of 2,000 square feet of forty-three … Continue reading

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A Week of Waffling at Brick Lane’s Swedish Restaurant Fika (Londonist)

Hej! How was your Våffeldagen? What!?! You didn’t celebrate Swedish Waffle Dayyesterday!?! Well as tragic as a missed opportunity to eat waffles all day may be, there’s still some scrumptious hope: a whole week of special waffles at the dandy Scandi … Continue reading

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Having a chat with Chris Osburn (Cadbury Fairtrade)

Now that Cadbury Dairy Milk has gone Fairtrade (yay!), they’re looking for smartypants foodies to talk generally about food as well as how Fairtrade and ethically sourced foods affect purchasing choices.  Here’s my take … Having a chat with Chris Osburn Cadbury Fairtrade, … Continue reading

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London Food Bloggers Descend upon Tayyabs (Londonist)

London Food Bloggers Descend upon Tayyabs Londonist, March 20, 2009 12:43 PM A feast organized by blogging foodie buddies Chris Pople and Helen Graves (both of whom we’ve showcased here and here), Whitechapel’s most celebrated of curry houses, Tayyabs, saw … Continue reading

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Roast Broccoli Salad Recipe with Jennifer Klinec of Eat Drink Talk (Londonist)

Roast Broccoli Salad Recipe with Jennifer Klinec of Eat Drink Talk Londonist, March 19, 2009 3:50 PM Here’s another simply scrumptious recipe from Eat Drink Talk‘s Jennifer Klinec, a tasty one … keep in mind when cooking for vegetarian friends … Continue reading

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Tasty Mingling at Generation XO: The Tasting Sessions (Londonist)

Tasty Mingling at Generation XO: The Tasting Sessions Londonist, March 18, 2009 12:21 PM Deciding which is better, the 100 year old Courvoisier Initiale Extra or the 130 year old Hennessy Paradis is a splendid dilemma and just the sort … Continue reading

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Rabbit Lasagne with Food Stories Blogger Helen Graves (Londonist)

Rabbit Lasagne with Food Stories Blogger Helen Graves Londonist, March 17, 2009 6:02 PM Having followed her mouth-wateringly delicious Food Stories blog for some time, we made no hesitation accepting her offer to swing by their South London flat and … Continue reading

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Vanilla: Innovative Food and Cocktails in a Chic Setting (Londonist)

Vanilla: Innovative Food and Cocktails in a Chic Setting Londonist, March 17, 2009 9:49 AM Yeah that’s our title and we’re sticking to it. However, we could have just as easily named this post “Chic Food and Cocktails in an … Continue reading

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Bea’s of Bloomsbury – Not Just Quality Cupcakes, Gourmet Savouries Too! (Londonist)

Bea’s of Bloomsbury – Not Just Quality Cupcakes, Gourmet Savouries Too! Londonist, March 16, 2009 1:25 PM Whoa! Bea’s of Bloomsbury (one of our favourite spots for cupcakes and other baked goods) recently wowed us with a scrummy lunch. We … Continue reading

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Interview with Peter Harden of Harden’s Restaurants Guides (Londonist)

Interview with Peter Harden of Harden’s Restaurants Guides Londonist, March 11, 2009 1:47 PM We’ll always love our books, but the web, mobile and whatever else the electronics giants have up their sleeves to throw at us are the future. … Continue reading

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(P)review: Liminal: A Question of Position at Rivington Place (Londonist)

(P)review: Liminal: A Question of Position at Rivington Place  Londonist, March 11, 2009 10:51 AM … Liminal: A Question of Position opens tonight at the 2008 RIBA Award winning Rivington Place. With more than twenty artists investigating life in an … Continue reading

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Going Bananas with a Fairtrade Afternoon Tea at the Royal Lancaster (Londonist)

Going Bananas with a Fairtrade Afternoon Tea at the Royal Lancaster Londonist, March 9, 2009 11:48 AM Over the weekend, the Royal Lancaster Hotel offered a Fairtrade Banana Afternoon Tea with a selection of freshly prepared Fairtrade banana finger sandwiches, … Continue reading

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New and Stylish Indian Restaurant, Zeen, Opens on Drummond Street (Londonist)

New and Stylish Indian Restaurant, Zeen, Opens on Drummond Street Londonist, March 4, 2009 10:02 AM Londonist indulged in a bit of a feast last night at newly opened Indian restaurant, Zeen. Located at 30 Drummond Street, NW1 2PA, Zeen … Continue reading

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“Crunch Munch” Lunch Special at the Water Poet Pub

“Crunch Munch” Lunch Special at the Water Poet Pub Londonist, February 26, 2009 3:12 PM Just round the corner from the revitalized (and frankly rather homogenized) Spitalfields Market is the Water Poet at 9-11 Folgate Street, E1 4BX. It’s a … Continue reading

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Master Baking (Har Har!) with Outsider Tart’s “Bakers Dozen” Masterclass (Londonist)

Master Baking (Har Har!) with Outsider Tart’s “Bakers Dozen” Masterclass  Londonist, February 24, 2009 1:53 PM Not content simply to let the masses eat their cake (not to mention their walnut brownie chunk cookies), “US style cake emporium” Outsider Tart … Continue reading

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Free Drinks, Snacks and Music on Wednesdays at The Well (Londonist)

Free Drinks, Snacks and Music on Wednesdays at The Well Londonist, February 23, 2009 1:28 PM For a couple of weeks now, St John Street stalwart, The Well, has been throwing parties in their downstairs lounge on Wednesday nights. Show … Continue reading

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Reviews Revisited: Luardo’s Mexican Street Food (Londonist)

Reviews Revisited: Luardo’s Mexican Street Food Chris Osburn, contributing editor Londonist February 20, 2009 6:14 PM Back in July 2007 (yes way back then) we happened upon upstart Mexican street food vendor, Luardo’s, at the then rather puny Whitecross Street … Continue reading

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Interview with Jonathan Parker, Founder of Foodie Social Networking Site Foodari (Londonist)

Interview with Jonathan Parker, Founder of Foodie Social Networking Site Foodari Chris Osburn, contributing editor Londonist February 20, 2009 9:36 AM Here’s a quick interview with Jonathan Parker, the found of the recipe-rich and cookery-wise social networking site Foodari. Jonathan … Continue reading

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STEAK! with Cheese and Biscuits Blogger Chris Pople

STEAK! with Cheese and Biscuits Blogger Chris Pople Chris Osburn, Contributing Editor Londonist February 12, 2009 2:03 PM One of London’s most noted food bloggers, Chris Pople, recently opened his home to Londonist to sample what he suggested would be … Continue reading

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Making Carrot Ice Cream with Jennifer Klinec of Eat Drink Talk (Londonist)

Making Carrot Ice Cream with Jennifer Klinec of Eat Drink Talk Chris Osburn, contributing editor Londonist February 11, 2009 7:25 PM We reckon if you like carrot cake or sorbets, you’ll absolutely adore carrot ice cream. Besides, it only requires … Continue reading

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Raclette and Wine at La Cave a Fromage (Londonist)

Raclette and Wine at La Cave a Fromage Chris Osburn, contributing editor Londonist February 11, 2009 11:45 AM Winter. Blah. But then again, this is the time of year when Raclette (and we mean the really good stuff) is at … Continue reading

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New (and Awesome) Coffee Cakes from Outsider Tart (Londonist)

New (and Awesome) Coffee Cakes from Outsider Tart By Chris Osburn, Contributing Editor Londonist January 28, 2009 4:51 PM … OT have (graciously) added caramel apple coffee cake with a pecan streusel and rhubarb coffee cake to their repertoire. Bless … Continue reading

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Pizza with Radicchio, Escarole and Bagna Cauda by Jennifer Klinec of Eat Drink Talk (Londonist)

Pizza with Radicchio, Escarole and Bagna Cauda by Jennifer Klinec of Eat Drink Talk by Chris Osburn, contributing editor Londonist January 26, 2009 9:58 PM When, Jennifer Klinec, founder-instructor of “new-school” cookery classes – Eat Drink Talk – asked Londonist … Continue reading

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Londonist Behind The Lens: Chris Osburn AKA Tiki Chris

Hey! That’s me! Very cool, but I’m gonna make you visit the actual Londonist post to see the shots. Londonist Behind The Lens: Chris Osburn AKA Tiki Chris By Londonist Londonist January 24, 2009 London is (or at least often … Continue reading

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