Food & drink
Why Ignoring Vegetarians is Total Madness for Restaurants
Over a number of years of being sneered at in restaurants when I revealed I didn’t eat meat, I developed an empathy for the plight of the average vegetarian… […]
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Asturias
Sawdust and Cider, a Review of Sidrería Casa Lin, Avíles
Casa Lin is such an unpretentious establishment that the food is somewhat of a surprise. Smooth and creamy scorpion fish paté comes with a twirl of… […]
Europe
The Height of Flower Power at Corpus Christi in Mazo, La Palma
The laying of flower carpets for Corpus Christi is a widespread tradition but there’s only one place in the world where the flowers are laid vertically instead of horizontally, and that’s in Mazo on La Palma. […]
Barcelona
Eat but Don’t Tell, a Truly Secret Restaurant in Barcelona
I couldn’t quite get my head around the fact that it was actually a secret restaurant – they didn’t want to advertise their presence… […]
Food & drink
Seriously Hot Foods from Around the World and the Hiccup Test
We recently bought some chillies in a Spanish supermarket with the most brilliant name; they were called puta la madre chillies. […]
Hiking
Lucky 13, The Marcos y Cordero Tunnels on La Palma
The previous day we’d trekked the hot and steamy Caldera de Taburiente; this route to the Marcos Y Cordero springs was a different animal altogether… […]
Hiking
Finding Rural Accommodation on La Palma
It’s the sort of place you dream about on cold, wet, dark winter afternoons when you’ve forgotten what it feels like to have the sun on your skin… […]
Barcelona
Visiting the Camp Nou in Barcelona during the Champions League Final
I’m sitting in arguably the most famous football stadium in the known universe on the night of the biggest club game in football, the Champions League final. […]
Food & drink
Do You Put Salt on Your Food in Restaurants?
If I ran a restaurant and someone asked for salt, I’d come at them with a cleaver, cursing and shouting directions to the nearest McDonalds. […]
Food & drink
5 Steps to Learning to Love Olives
All you need for this is an olive-hater, a bowl of olives (green preferably) and a crowd of onlookers who will be suitably amazed when this experiment is proven to work. […]
Food & drink
An Alternative Taste of Pitlochry in the Scottish Highlands
Pitlochry is an immaculate little town that must have first time visitors to the Highlands of Scotland drooling like a heilan’ coo when they set eyes on its ridiculously pretty streets. […]
Great Britain
A Taste of Urban Grit – Glasgow in Photos
Mad, bad and dangerous to know. That’s what I thought about Glasgow growing up ‘doon the water’ in Rothesay. It always felt as though there was an undercurrent of violence simmering just beneath the surface… […]
Food & drink
Food in Sri Lanka, Potato & Green Bean Curry
The potato and green bean curry dished up was much milder than the average madras. It had a very distinctive flavour (slightly roasted) that was quite different from the flavours of sauces from other areas of India. […]