Recipes and Restaurant Reviews
When does a chef know that they have hit the top of their game? Is it Michelin Stars, a perfect Trip Advisor rating, a successful franchise or being asked to cook for the most powerful leaders in the world? Emily Scott – cooks for Presidents …
This is a slightly different review to usual, not in the content or integrity, but because I was requested to review The Larder, Montpellier, Cheltenham, by one of their customers. In fact, it was the daughter of one of their customers, and her husband and …
Just in case your French is so bad that you don’t know what Petit means – upon entry to Petit Coco Cheltenham, you’ll work out that it means ‘small’. If you use an online dictionary, it will also suggest insignificant – I paid Petit Coco …
Before we get in to the detail of The Ivy Cheltenham, or to give its full name The Ivy Montpellier Brasserie in Cheltenham, what do you know about The Ivy? I mean the actual The Ivy in Covent Garden, Soho, London. It’s famous for being …
– we’re not 100% sure where this dish might originate. I accidentally made it up, but that’s not to say it doesn’t exist. So in actual fact this could be a South East Asian ‘influenced’ English dish – Changlo food! You saw it here first. …
The Bottle of Sauce Cheltenham has been open for nearly year, celebrating it’s first birthday this Christmas, but is it still any good – that’s assuming it once was? I didn’t go ‘The Sauce’ when it first opened, everyone was talking about it – which …
The Hotel du Vin Winchester is a well established favourite, I have been a number of times and this visit made it worthy of review. My co-eaters were 7 well oiled ‘guys’ on a stag and following a competitive Go Karting session we felt lunch …