Provided the street food .

Bel and I had lunch at Bad Egg. The service is charming, the room is wonderfully rustic and the company was excellent. Lucky EDers who get to have this as a local. So the Ivy, that fancy pants .

Friday, December 15, 2017. The Best of London Food and Beverage 2017. Here is my list of best of London food shops , restaurants and wine establishments for 2017.

St Claire and The Notes from The Dregs. Wednesday, 13 January 2016. There are some wines that for personal reasons I really like; they might remind me of times gone by, they might just be particularly tasty, but they often seem to fall into the category of wines that are on sodding allocation.

I like to serve them with a very simple coleslaw. Shred half a cabbage and a couple of carrots, along with a finely sliced shallot - I have one of those plastic mandolines. Which makes all this very easy. Lots of black pepper, a sprinkle of sea salt and enough mayonnaise to keep it all together. A squirt of lemon juice lifts it all.

Sharing the love of eating magnificently every day, sometimes in my lovely kitchen and sometimes finding the great things London offers. Bitterness is viewed harshly in this overly sweet world. To be bitter is to be consumed with an intense animosity, lashed by the rawness of winter winds, suffering the distress of a galling shame. Yet bitter enemies, bitter rancor, bitter hatred create all the finest elements of great art, surely? Makes about 5 .