I have been unspeakably busy for the past couple of weeks, and so my partner Vivian kindly stepped in with a guest post on a subject very close to her heart: the Yukon Gold potato
Trying something a little new for me - a list thatβs openly uninformed. Here are a few places I really liked in Copenhagen, a city Iβve spent a grand total of five days in. I wonβt claim to be an expert, but since I liked them, maybe you will too.
My first review from Copenhagen is of not-Noma, the acclaimed fine dining spotβs more approachable sister restaurant Barr. I strongly suspect itβs much more my thing than Noma ever could be.
I've always had mixed feelings about Noma - the prices, the labour practices, tbh the whole fine dining vibe - but it was fun to wander around their little shop in Copenhagen
No paid post today β I'm afraid travel and sickness have knocked me off schedule. Usual service will resume next Sunday!
Sticky toffee pizza obviously shouldn't work, but relieved to say it really does, at least at Circus. It passes the 'cold out of the fridge the next morning' test, though it's definitely better on a reheat
Doppio Zero might not look like much from the outside, and it doesnβt pop up on many pizza rankings or best-of lists β but it really, really should
Forced rhubarb! It's grown in greenhouses to get an early winter season. Then we get the regular stuff later in the spring
Not a bad loaf of sourdough either, and if I hadn't had lunch plans I suspect I would have been tempted into one of the slices of Detroit pizza they were slinging out of the ovens
A strong recommendation from my sister led me to Proto Bakery in St. Albans, and I'm glad it did. A lovely bready cardamom and orange bun, an impressively layered pain au chocolat, and an almost comically tall slab of olive-studded focaccia, as soft as anything
I donβt truly eat seasonally half as often as Iβd like to, or feel I should. But every once in a while I manage it, this time spurred by a pink pop of forced rhubarb in a Yorkshire market
I broke out of London a couple weeks back for a weekend in York, and am very glad I found the time for dinner at Los Moros, a north African restaurant that feels charmingly casual - though the food is anything but
The Center for a Livable Future at Johns Hopkins has opened applications for its food systems journalism fellowship this year. I'm part of the current crop, and can definitely recommend it if you're an early career food writer, or looking to add it to your repertoire like I was
Paid a first visit to Tommy's Sandwiches near King's Cross the other week. Not London's best sub spot, but a solid start considering it's only just opened. I'll be back when the promised addition of a meatball sub hits the menu.
I'm afraid Loaf wasn't entirely sold on the rhubartini, though I thought it came out rather well: equal parts vodka and rhubarb syrup, shaken over ice
Snuck a little more food writing into the day job, this time on Beyond Meat's pivot to protein drinks
A closer look at one of my favourite bΓ‘nh mΓ¬ in London, Hackneyβs own BΓ‘nh MΓ¬ Hα»i-An
After eating as many as them as I could over the past few weeks, I can confirm that London has an awful lot of bang average bΓ‘nh mΓ¬. But a handful of spots are a cut above the rest, whether itβs thanks to baking their own bread or getting their pickles on point. These are the ones not to miss.
Bangers only at Tofu Vegan (but the silken tofu remains the biggest banger of them all)
A bit of a love letter to the diner, and more specifically Louβs
True, though I was in York, which isn't all that far north anyways. And either way, much easier to find a good one there than it is in London!
Couldn't go to the North without eating a pork pie. In fact, turns out I couldn't go without eating two, but that's between me and God
