CHOCOLATE is a gift that you just cannot go wrong with and as per usual master chocolatier Lindt has come up with a number of tasty new products that will make ideal this stocking fillers this festive season.
DINNER parties are all the rage during the festive season and nothing will prompt excited conversation quite like the peppermeister as you host your family dinners.
THINK of Vodka and most experts in this acquired taste will tell you the finest drops come from Russia and Poland and that they will be made from potato leavings.
NOTHING uplifts a mood quite like the smell of freshly baked cakes and the rich aroma that greeted your usual Friday morning restlessness as you faced one final day of work before the weekend was both welcome and delicious!
Myself, my partner and our six month old daughter attended the event at the NEC on Saturday13th June.
THE doom mongers will have you believe in these difficult financial times that people are shunning the restaurant and staying at home.
HAVE you tried Riverboat Tilapia Fillets? Or Succulent Sahara Chicken? Maybe Kilimanjaro Lamb Chops? These are just some of the exotically named dishes on the imaginative menu at Mogo Grill and Juice in Solihull’s Touchwood Centre.
FROM time to time you stumble across a restaurant that really does have the X-factor.
ONE of my favourite days of the week has to be Sunday, for this day is one of rest - and the fine institution that is the Great British Sunday Lunch. Not a natural Nigella or Gordon Ramsay, I’m always on the lookout for the perfect fare at well-established restaurants to fulfil my Sunday craving.
AS we hear every day on every news bulletin, the credit crunch is hitting most people very hard. That means those little treats, the ones that, at times, keep us going, have become more infrequent as we tighten our belts and ‘cut our cloth accordingly’.
I HAVE had the pleasure (some times!) of reviewing restaurants and the food they dish out for almost 12 years. Yet, only the other week I was asked for the very first time what my definition of a good restaurant is.
HOTEL food, in my experience, can often be as bland and non-descript as the actual places themselves.
ONE of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever it is we are doing and devote our attention to eating, the great Luciano Pavarotti once remarked.