Food and drink
Travel writing & restaurant reviews
Do travel writers get free meals in restaurants? The short answer to that is yes, of course they do otherwise nobody but the very well-off could ever afford to be travel writers. […]
Food and drink
Food and drink
A review of restaurants in St Aubin on Jersey
As well as being a pretty town with an attractive character, it boasts more restaurants than you might expect from a town of its size, no doubt due to its popularity with visitors. The question is, how good are restaurants in St Aubin? […]
Food and drink
10 ways to tell if you are a foodie
There are many various views on what constitutes being a foodie, but what most people in the food business agree about is what doesn’t.
It doesn’t mean someone who likes food and who likes to eat a lot. […]
Cornwall
In a Pandemic, Does Customer Service Still Matter?
We felt as if we’d just dined in a motorway service station, albeit one with good food. We would not be dining here again and would probably give them a mediocre rating on TripAdvisor. […]
Food and drink
Comparing Michelin recommended restaurants in Padstow
In Padstow, after eating in Paul Ainsworth at Number 6 and Rick Stein’s St Petroc’s Bistro on two consecutive days, we had the opportunity to compare and contrast… […]
Food and drink
Why eat out in a restaurant?
There can be inverse snobbery at play when it comes to Michelin star cuisine. It’s often described and dismissed as fancy or pretentious by people who prefer their food to be conventional. […]
Food and drink
A different take on that Bros review
Last week, The Everywhereist’s review ridiculing the restaurant (not the 80s boy band) Bros in Lecce went viral on social media and was subsequently shared by numerous mainstream news publications. Instead of joining the vocal […]
Food and drink
There are hotel bars and there are hotel bars
Writing about hotel bars this week, I made a reference to convivial inns. The person responsible for editing the piece questioned the use of the word inn as opposed to hotel bar or lounge. For […]
Food and drink
Local food isn’t always fabulous
Other country’s dishes, irrespective of what they involve, are invariably presented in travel articles as though they’re all exceptionally tasty just because they are authentic. […]
Food and drink
The problem with vegetarian food
I know a lot of people who balk at the idea of vegetarian food, as if the very mention of might be contagious. Maybe they’re worried the next time they bite into a meaty fillet their taste-buds will have become infected and the flavours will disgust rather than delight? […]
Food and drink
The Hiker’s Picnic
It doesn’t matter whether hiking in Spain or Portugal, Italy or Austria, the filling you’ll find in the picnic made by the hotel is likely to be the same … […]
Food and drink
Creative cuisine is working class art
My favourite part of the hotel was the kitchen, a volatile place where big personalities added expletives and threats to an air filled with the aroma of uninventive dishes destined for the unadventurous palates of coach excursionists from England. […]
Europe
The case against Spanish desserts
The issue is not one of whether these Spanish desserts are good or bad in their own right. It’s only by comparison with the desserts of other nationalities that you can really judge just how good a dish is… […]
Food and drink
The problem with recommending restaurants
In the words of the great Jim Morrison, people are strange… or they can be when it comes to food. As well as having very contrasting likes and dislikes, folk have very personal foibles, all of which makes recommending restaurants somewhat of a lottery. […]
Food and drink
Meat and two veg, a concept past its sell by date
I saw the phrase ‘meat and two veg’ the other day, coincidentally as I was uploading photos of our lockdown meals which most definitely were not of the meat and two veg variety. For some reason it jumped out at me, and for the first time I realised what a curious thing it is. […]