Tag : Food

Best Hangover Cure? A Revolutionary Moment...

Eggs, bacon, sausage, fried bread, baked beans, mushrooms, grilled tomatoes, more eggs, more bacon, one more sausage...

Operational Consultancy? A 5* F*** Up?

I experienced a communication breakdown on a massive scale this week, leaving both myself and the restaurant manager speechless.

Lunch with Ignite

Here's a novel idea... for those who love eating, are tired of boring food at lunch and want to learn more recipes - start a lunch club at work, we have and it's brilliant. I joined relatively recently and I like to think I've cooked up a storm - we'll be blogging our recipes and giving some insights to what people thought. Check back regularly, because if all goes to plan there should be a new recipe every day... we'll try and keep it interesting!

Camden's best kept secret

Being a relative stranger to my own kitchen I set out to an appointment with the express purpose of finding a suitable brunch location between home and my destination, Hampstead. The nearest spot, that's worth visiting, to both is familiar old Camden so the hunt began there. It's one of those places you walk through, shop in, drink in and browse at without ever stopping for food - Camden is hardly known for cuisine and with good reason.

Fit for a King

In the not too distant past, Kings Cross or St Pancras stations were hardly the places you'd want tourists to our capital city to see first. Thousands of visitors per day would arrive from all over the country to be greeted by a gritty industrial wasteland, which is putting it nicely. So once the Eurostar terminal's move to the area from Waterloo had been mooted, bringing with it European visitors, it was inevitable that regeneration of much of the locality would follow.

Noodle Fun In Pop-Up London

There is something innately cool about the concept of pop-up bars, restaurants and clubs. One minute they're there, the next minute they're gone. They feel like they've been thrown together with the type of effortless style that so many crave.

Veer towards British Veal!

It's a bit of a funny one for me to write this one, (not having eaten red meat or chicken for 22 years!) but basically I am encouraging the use of veal in restaurants and hotels. There is a slight catch though, I am only encouraging the use of British veal.

Go on, be a good egg!

Banish the battery egg in your kitchen and you could get an award thrown in!

Mythology unravelled, you can make sushi too!

I'm a big lover of Japanese food, and an even bigger lover of the mythology behind it. You must have seen the episode of 'The F Word' where Gordon Ramsey goes to a Japanese restaurant to learn the art of sushi? The real point that caught my attention, apart from the head chef berating Gordon - hard to not smile, was the rice washer, who'd been doing as much for 3 years! Apparently this is a typical feat for anyone wishing to become a sushi pro. Fantastic. Talk about dedication.

Recipe: A Turkish Treat

Food... it's one of our biggest passions here at Ignite and we always like to experiment with new and exciting dishes.

Fresh-fished-fish, oysters-on-tap, rock bottom rates... sound like Essex?

Known for its old ladies and 'ave-a-go youths, Essex isn't a place I identify as a place for culinary delights. But the bits and pieces I'd read on the food, particularly the fish, at Mersea Island (just off the coast of Essex) had got my taste buds tingling. So a short train journey from London and I was trundling across the only road connecting mainland Britain and the Island.

SUMMER RECIPE: Beer-can Chicken (Free-range, of course)

Beer-can chicken, or as it's more affectionately known 'Beer-in-the-Butt Roast', is a no-brainer recipe for a lazy Sunday in the sun. Here's how to bbq that bird on a throne good-and-proper:

Thai-riffic, Thai-tanic, Thai me up, Thai me bloody kangaroo down sport - Battle of the Brands down under (guess which cuisine?).

It's a while since I've been in Sydney but after a recent return, thankfully not a lot has changed. The blue sky is still larger than life, the people, still as chilled as ever and the beaches still make me feel like there's no place like home.