Easy Festive Canapes with Prosciutto di San Daniele and Grana Padano: It is coming up to that time of year. Christmas and New Year are approaching fast – the holiday season. Just as we are all really busy shopping for the perfect presents, preparing for Christmas lunch and cleaning the house ready for the Mother […]
Nice Italian Food Every Day – NifeisLife
Fresh Italian Produce to your Door – NifeisLife: It took me a while to work out where the curiously named NifeisLife originated. Nice Italian Food of course… It’s a sentiment which I am sure any expat Italian living in London will agree with; the food you can find in supermarkets and most delis simply […]
The Perfect Homemade Pizza
Easy Homemade Pizza. I can’t think of another time I’ve been excited about a small sheet of metal! But, as someone who loves cooking but who doesn’t generally use a lot of gadgets, I’m seriously impressed with my new Pizza Steel. It came with two ‘slides’ – fine stainless steel sheets that you use to […]
A Lidl Italiamo
Time to stock up on your Italian provisions at Lidl: One of the catches with travelling by air is that there’s always a weight restriction. On my recent trip to Lake Garda, I had a massive 23kg allowance, but once you add in the odd bottle of Vino Santo or Spumante and perhaps a litre […]
Vapiano: Italian soul
Southwark Soul at Vapiano Bankside: Vapiano is a different concept in a dinning. The idea behind Vapiano (which currently has three London branches, added to those around the globe) is to offer great quality Italian food, freshly prepared to order in a relaxed environment which is a million miles away from the overly charactured competitor […]
Spaghetti House – Goodge Street
An Original Italian in Goodge Street – Spaghetti House: While I’m not quite old enough to have been around when Spaghetti House in Goodge Street first opened in 1955, to my generation foods like pizza and spaghetti (the long sort rather than the stuff that came in cans from Heinz) were exotic and in […]
Frescobaldi, Mayfair London
Ristorante Frescobaldi Mayfair – Review: A sense of history means different things in different places. In Italy the Frescobaldi family have been making winemakers since 1308; in a rather smart move they traded wine for art with Michelangelo and were even financiers to Henry VIII. In more recent times as well as being one of Italy’s […]
Vapiano Soho – A Simple Concept for Fresh Food
Lunch at Vapiano Soho: I wasn’t entirely certain that I would be ‘target market’ for Vapiano Soho. A pasta and pizza restaurant that is part of a German group sounded just a little unlikely. So, I dragged my 19 yr old God Daughter out for lunch, confident that if it wasn’t right for me, it […]
Ponti’s Italian Kitchen – A 50th Birthday Celebration
Celebrating Traditional Food from Emilia Romagna at Ponti’s Italian Kitchen: My invitation to Ponti’s was to celebrate fifty years of the restaurant in London. Some achievement in our Capital where the turnover of restaurants must be one of the fastest in the world. In fact it’s a place that’s been around for so long I […]