Blooming Brilliant: meeting April Bloomfield

And, like a hungry child to a mother’s teet, I managed to sniff out what I’m pretty sure is one of the hottest restaurants in New York – The John Dory. I’d heard a lot about its chef April Bloomfield before the trip, perhaps because she’s British, and is one in that rare breed of [...]

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Rip-off merchants and mutant mussels

In the past I’ve been spoiled when it comes to seafood. My career as a hospitality/food journalist so far has seen me treated to a three-Michelin starred seafood feast at Gerald Passedat’s restaurant in Marseilles, eat freshly caught crab and bass at Seymour Tower in Jersey and taste oysters at St Pancras Grand.
So when it [...]

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Cheap eats – six courses for six quid!

Yeah, yeah, yeah – we’re all getting pretty sick (but not as sick as those folks over at the Fat Duck) of hearing about the recession by now. As a freelance journalist living in London and working through it, I could rattle on for days about the hardship of magazines and papers cutting freelance budgets, [...]

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Michelin stars, Chris Galvin and Gérald Passédat

In May this year I was lucky enough to go to Marseilles with chef Chris Galvin (the nicest man in cooking?) and his Galvin at Windows team, and sample the menu at Gérald Passédat’s three-Michelin starred Le Petit Nice. Passédat was the only chef to be upgraded to three stars in this year’s French red [...]

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