Big Icy Balls – Making Baileys Cool
On my arrival back to Foster City, California from the UK, the other half excitedly told me that he’d got me a present from Williams-Sonoma …in truth he’d got himself a present. Ice Sphere Moulds! They are in fact really rather cool (ahem…I know). They are designed to create...
SoMa StrEat Food Park
Whilst here it would have been wrong not to go and suss out SoMa StrEat Food Park in San Francisco. On a sunny California day we drove to Milbrae from Foster City to take the BART into San Fran and got off at 16th St Mission. SoMa is resident...
Off The Grid @ The Presidio
Off The Grid organises weekly street food markets or truck stops in and around the Bay Area, San Francisco. We had been in SF overnight and on our journey back we made a whistle stop to check it all out at the weekly Picnic @ the Presidio, though this...
Tongue Thai’d in Reigate
I thought I would jot down some lines about the arrival and our recent visit of Giggling Squid Thai restaurant in Reigate High Street. Having had a look around the premises when it was still on the market I watched with interest over the months the issues Giggling Squid...
Horses for Courses it’s got to be @Forces_Sauces
A BRAVE ex-soldier battling cancer has seen his range of tasty sauces hit supermarket shelves – as he hopes to raise a million pounds for charity. Launched nationally in Tesco in June 2013, Forces Sauces is a range of great tasting, Great British sauces. It is a unique charity...
Trailer Trash on the Fulham Road? #StreetFood – @TheBeefKitchen
Wednesday, Thursday & Friday of this week, The Beef Kitchen is serving up a 5-course ‘Trailer Trash’ tasting menu. Dipping ‘soldiers’, dirty, messy burgers and dunkin doughnuts are all on the menu as well as a few surprises thrown in for good measure…what’s not to like. However, whilst diners...
FOOD SHOW: ‘Live to Eat’ – #StreetFood Trolls & Tinderboxes
The Street Food movement in the UK is gathering momentum with street food traders and events popping up all over the country, so I decided to have a chat with those who have bitten the bullet and set up trading outside the buzz of London Town. I spoke to...
The Tinderbox ignites Reigate with their #StreetFood
Richard and Katie Matthews of The Tinderbox starting out on their Street Food journey in Reigate with their teardrop caravan ‘Cowslip’. On a cold Friday Richard and Katie set up in Tunnel Road, Reigate as part of the monthly farmers market. I chatted to Richard to ask him why...
The New Boy ‘popping up’ on the Reigate Block
Eight o’clock on a Friday evening seems an odd time to be heading for some tea rooms, only I’m not going there for tea! We were en route to the Vintage Tea House in Reigate to sample a menu from Private Chef Maxwell McKenzie at his latest pop-up restaurant. The...
It’s Not All About London – #StreetFood
The Troll’s Pantry – Brighton Want to know what’s in Stinky Breath? You might think you know but it’s not related to the morning after ten pints, 20 cigarettes and a dubious doner…The Troll will tell you. Tucked away in the corner of a woodstore car park in Brighton...