Posted by rosiebirkett on October 4, 2011 · 3 Comments
Believe the buzz. Ducksoup – and I’m not talking about the 1933 Marx Brothers film – is the shizzle. Or at least, it was when I lunched there last week – packed tightly into my rickety wooden chair on the tiny, jewel box ground floor of Soho’s latest small plates restaurant. As I dashed inside, out of the freakish heat, … Continue reading →
Category British restaurants, chefs, ingredients, restaurant review, Restaurants, reviews, Uncategorized · Tagged with Dean Street, Ducksoup, Julian Biggs, London restaurant, Mark Hix, new London restaurant, small plate restaurant, Soho restaurant
Posted by rosiebirkett on July 28, 2011 · 2 Comments
Today I have an article published in the Independent about Sven Elverfeld, a three-Michelin starred chef in Germany whose inventive renderings of his national cuisine has put the unremarkable industrial town of Wolfsburg on the global food map. You can read the piece here, and below are some photos from my visit. Enjoy! This is … Continue reading →
Category chefs, food photography, ingredients, Michelin-starred restaurants, Restaurants, Travel, Uncategorized · Tagged with German gastronomy, German restaurants, Ritz Carlton, Sven Elverfeld, three Michelin starred restaurants, Wolfsburg
Posted by rosiebirkett on July 22, 2011 · 7 Comments
On returning to Copenhagen for a second time this year, the first thing we did was go and eat at British chef Paul Cunningham’s Michelin-starred restaurant The Paul, which is set inside the 1800s children’s amusement park Tivoli. Walking into The Paul is a bit like what I imagine it might be like walking into … Continue reading →
Category chefs, Copenhagen, Interview, Michelin-starred restaurants, restaurant review, Restaurants, Uncategorized · Tagged with British chefs, Copenhagen, Danish food, Denmark, Paul Cunningham, The Paul, Tivoli
Posted by rosiebirkett on June 28, 2011 · 1 Comment
Last week was rather epic in eating out terms. It all kicked off on Wednesday with a meal at the City outpost of Le Relais de Venise with some friends I was recently in France with. We needed an excuse to consume lots of calories while drinking cold rosé and feeling vaguely like we were … Continue reading →
Category British food, British restaurants, chefs, French food, General, ingredients, london, Michelin-starred restaurants, restaurant review, Restaurants, Uncategorized · Tagged with Angels and Gypsies, Chateu Unang, Compass, Cote De Ventoux, Le Relais de Venise, Restaurant Associates, Roganic, Simon Rogan, special sauce, steak, Steak frites, Wimbledon tennis
Posted by rosiebirkett on June 2, 2011 · Leave a Comment
As if you didn’t already know, René Redzepi’s Noma was voted number one at this year’s S.Pellegrino World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards. I was lucky enough to catch up with the triumphant Danish chef for Chef Magazine while he was over for the awards… What’s the past year been like for you, since topping the … Continue reading →
Category celebrity chefs, chefs, Copenhagen, ingredients, Interview, Local food, Nordic Cuisine, Restaurants, Uncategorized · Tagged with 50 Best, Claude Bosi, Copenhagen, Hibiscus, New Nordic Cuisine, Noma, Nordic Cuisine, Nordic Kitchen, Rene Redzepi, S.Pellegrino World's 50 Best Restaurants awards, Worlds 50 Best Restaurant Awards
Posted by rosiebirkett on February 13, 2011 · 2 Comments
The buzz surrounding Heston Blumenthal’s first London restaurant, Dinner, which opened on the 31st of January, has been Brobdingnagian in its proportions. Early reviews from Giles Coren and Matthew Fort rhapsodised about its brilliance, and the morning that I visit The Sun has published an article by Alex James that calls the food at Dinner “the best I’ve … Continue reading →
Category British food, British restaurants, celebrity chefs, chefs, ingredients, london, New restaurants, restaurant review, Restaurants, reviews · Tagged with Ashley Palmer-Watts, Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, heston blumenthal, Historic British recipes, London restaurants, new restaurants, The Fat Duck
Posted by rosiebirkett on January 3, 2011 · 6 Comments
I found myself in Birmingham – the land of pleasant taxi drivers, balti houses and a growing culinary scene – not so long ago. I was up there for an Arcade Fire gig (there were only seated tickets left at the 02 and I’d rather snog Brian Blessed than sit down to Arcade Fire) but … Continue reading →
Category celebrity chefs, chefs, General, restaurant review, Restaurants, reviews · Tagged with Birmingham restaurants, casual dining, casual dining chain, chain restaurants, Italian food, Italian restaurants, Jamie Oliver, Jamie's Italian, pasta, restaurants in Birmingham
Posted by rosiebirkett on July 13, 2010 · Leave a Comment
I wrote about edible flowers and their proliferation on this year’s summer menus for The Metro. Pun-tastic!
Category celebrity chefs, chefs, food photography, General, Michelin-starred restaurants · Tagged with chefs, cooking with flowers, edible flowers, Noma, Pied a terre, recipe ideas, recipes, Rene Redzepi, Shane Osbourne, summer food, summer recipes, The Metro
Posted by rosiebirkett on July 4, 2010 · Leave a Comment
First printed in Spectator Scoff! You’ve got to admire Nuno Mendes’ tenacity. Having once tried, and once failed, with Bacchus – a restaurant serving his elaborate, inventive cuisine from the run-down depths of Hoxton – forcing him to create a supper club (and a very successful one at that) from his loft apartment – he’s … Continue reading →
Category chefs, General, Local food, london, restaurant review, Restaurants · Tagged with Bethnal Green, city restaurant, dining review, dinner restaurant, East London, find restaurant, find restaurants, food review, lunch review, new restaurant, Nuno Mendes, restaurant directory, restaurant guide, restaurant London, restaurant menus, restaurant review, resturant review, review guide, review restaurant, reviews food, Viajante
Posted by rosiebirkett on July 2, 2010 · Leave a Comment
First published on The Spectator’s Website Chef Simon Rogan’s Michelin-starred L’Enclume restaurant is in Cartmel, one of the most picturesque, remote villages in the Lake District: all cobbled streets, country lanes and babbling brooks. The course begins with a trip to Rogan’s organic Howbarrow farm, where you’ll pick seasonal bounty like broad bean flowers, lettuces, … Continue reading →
Category British food, chefs, ingredients, Local food, Michelin-starred restaurants, reviews, Tastings · Tagged with British food, chef, cookery class, cookery school, Cumbria, farm, food, Michelin, organic farm, organic vegetables, restaurant, Simon Rogan
A lot on her plate 