Minh is a food, photography, tv loving girl who on occasion likes to think that she can cook. I can't hold my drink for what its worth and have an unhealthy obsession with green tea products.
A mere hour away from London by train lies Cambridge, not just a university as I had always thought but an entire university town. I get a little faint-hearted when I think about all of the mayhem that you could get up to living in a town that literally grew up around your university.
As fast as it happened, summer in London is almost officially over. Looking outside of the windows right now it’s all doom and gloom, and somehow I’m thinking the hype about how rubbish the weather is here is 100% true. I’ve never been a person to embrace wintertime, perhaps it’s because I was born in the summer but I feel like perhaps the best things in life happen when the sun is shining down on you.
There’s a waiting list of approximately 6 months for Dabbous, our booking was made back in April, and it’s my luck (and someone else’s misfortune) that I’m able to squeeze onto the table. There’s a considerable amount of hype behind Dabbous, but tonight we’re here for a celebration and the £54 tasting menu.
The es&t team have been writing together for almost 4 years now (where did the time go??) and while this slow patch has definitely been our worst, please rest assured knowing that in the end we will always return to the blog.
There’s a sense of awe that comes over me when we approach the tables at Otto Ristorante. I’ve ventured over to the dark side of town (i.e. the East) with Astroboy and Helen for the first TOYS Collective event of the year, Blood, Bones & Butter.
It’s a Thursday night and we’re at Hunky Dory Social Club for the Bruno’s restaurant launch headed by up Daniele Trimarchi (of Icebergs and Fratelli Paradiso fame.)
Somehow Chicago’s architecture, food and the ridiculously nice people won me over and Chicago turned out to be my favourite city on our entire holiday (the copious amounts of alcohol we consumed may also have something to do with this).