Bristol is an awesome place for food. It’s got a great selection of restaurants, cafes, bars and food stalls – loads of independent eating places. Having spent so many years studying there, moving away made me realise just how good it is for lunch. One of my intentions for this blog was to share some [...]
Posted in Food Heros, Markets, Restaurants, Cafes and Pubs on Feb 3rd, 2010
Like many our age growing up in England, a fair few childhood holidays were spent in France. Neither of us have spent much time there on our recent holidays though (nothing against France!). Like most of our holidays, we were excited about trying out lots of new food – probably food we screwed our faces [...]
Posted in Markets, Restaurants, Cafes and Pubs on Sep 11th, 2009
We recently went on a surfing holiday on the Gower Peninsular in Wales. On the days where the surf was flat, we needed to find other things to do. We heard that there was a local producer’s market held at Pennard Community Hall and we decided to give it a whirl.
There were several stalls selling fruit [...]
Posted in Markets on Jun 27th, 2009
In the late 1970’s, Nicholas Saunders started up “a few businesses in Neal’s Yard, Covent Garden” to quote the Neal’s Yard Dairy website. These companies were Neal’s Yard Whole Food, Neal’s Yard Remedies, the Monmouth Coffee Company and Neal’s Yard Dairy. Seemingly Mr Saunders was onto something as the businesses seem to have taken off and [...]
Posted in Food Heros, Markets, Reviews, Shops on Feb 8th, 2009
Having eaten our fill at the Festival Hall slow food market and procured the necessaries to grow your own garlic, we set off to one of London’s food highlight’s, Borough Market. According to the wikipedia entry, the first reference to Borough Market was in 1276. The market is believed to date from Roman times and has been on the present [...]
Posted in Markets on Jan 10th, 2009
At the Slow Food Market at the Festival Hall (A South London Food Trip – Part 1 Slow Food Festival) was a man selling garlic from a bicycle. Unmistakably French, he did not have many takers for the raw bulbs of garlic he was giving out as samples! There was a choice of white, pink [...]
Posted in Grow Your Own, Markets on Dec 26th, 2008
In preparation for our Christmas dinner, we embarked on a South London Food Safari. The first stop was a Slow Food Christmas Market at the Festival Hall on the South Bank of the Thames.
I’ve heard of the Slow Food Movement before, and had a rough idea of what they were about - promoting traditional foods, biodiversity, quality, taste and sustainability. [...]
Posted in Markets on Dec 25th, 2008