Category: Food & Drink

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    The Rock’s Teremana tequila is coming

    Tequila fans, mark March in your diary. That is when The Rock’s much-promoted Teremana tequila will touch down. I wrote the other day about the fact that tequila is one of the trends I think you want to be watching out for in 2020 and Dwayne Johnson’s foray into the market is one of the…

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    Surviving Veganuary

    I see you there, you steak-loving carnivores, you thought Veganuary would be a good idea didn’t you? Maybe it was a challenge, maybe it’s for charity, maybe you fancied a change. But now, just over a week in, you are frankly sick of the sight of baked beans and pasta with tomato sauce aren’t you?…

  • The Loving Hut, Menton

    The French Riviera is not a haven for vegan food. Cheese and salami rule the roost here and for much of our sojourn to capture the last of summer in southern France a while back, S’s diet was confined largely to pasta and salad. But then there was The Loving Hut. This wonderfully-named spot is…

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    Things to look forward to in 2020

    2020 is here and we have an exciting 12 months ahead of us. With the Tokyo Olympics, Euro 2020, a US Presidential Election and Brexit, the year is already shaping up to be a rollercoaster. But there are also a fair few things which may have slipped under you radar on the way in 2020.…

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    Pasta & Basta: Italy’s best pasta joint?

    “The world’s best pasta restaurant” is quite the billing to live up to. But that is what S had confidently promised as we boarded the train. The restaurant in question, not to be confused with the similarly-monikered London pop-up, is in Ventimiglia on the Italian coast close to the French border on the Riviera. It…

  • The Macallan Boutique Collection

    Recently, I was lucky enough to be given a look around the new Macallan Boutique store at Heathrow Airport. For whisky fans among you, it is in Terminal 5, to the right of security, where the Harry Potter shop used to be. But I digress. To celebrate the launch of its Boutiques programme, Macallan has…

  • Cannabissimo and the CBD coffee delight

    In a small Italian factory, a Master Roaster is creating a blend which could change the way you take your coffee. I discovered Cannabissimo at the Brighton Coffee Festival last month and it has quickly become one of my favourite unexpected discoveries. Don’t get hung up or – or over excited by – the name,…

  • Brighton Coffee Festival

    The very first Brighton Coffee Festival took place this weekend and I could not pass up the opportunity to find a couple of new brews, so S and I headed down to the coast for a cuppa. Coffee is a big deal in Brighton. The average resident there spends about £200 a year on coffee…

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    How to open a bottle of Champagne

    There are a few skills you really should master just in case you are ever called on to use them. I would put opening a bottle of Champagne or Prosecco right up there with changing a tyre or a lightbulb in skills you want to have mastered should the situation arise. Many of you in…

  • Grabbing a cuppa at F*ckcoffee

    There are so many coffee shops popping up around London these days that most of them are looking for a way to stand out. For some it is unique beans, ordering from iPads or drinking your brew out of a flower pot. For F*ckcoffee it is all about attitude. Tucked away on Bermondsey Street, just…