Europe
Ten tasty hot sandwiches to try in Portugal
There are countries where finding something with a local flavour (no international fast food franchises allowed) to satisfy this yen can be problematic. Portugal isn’t one of them. […]
Food & drink
Europe
Who’s at the next table? A gastronomic generation gap
The food is Michelin star standard and some of the more imaginative dishes are treated with caution. Like us, they’re people who have probably followed a curving arc when it comes to dining habits… […]
Europe
A tasty tour of Scotland’s finest food
Scotland is a country blessed with a natural larder overflowing with the sort of produce which should have gourmets slevering at the mouth. On a mini tour of Scotland we enjoyed as good and varied food as we’ve eaten in many a European country […]
Food & drink
Make food better, top it with an egg
It’s a funny thing about eggs as a potential hangover cure. A fried egg buttie is preferable to drinking raw egg but maybe more sophisticated and healthier is eggs Benedict. […]
Food & drink
The surprise about Lonely Planet’s Ultimate Eat List
I was particularly disappointed as Lonely Planet was once our travel bible, the key to unlocking exciting new travel experiences. But there was no edgy insight with any of the examples and I was expecting the unexpected. […]
Food & drink
Slow Travel means being flexible with your eating patterns
It’s one thing to want to dive into the gastronomy of a destination, but an authentic Slow Travel experience means embracing its eating patterns as well. […]
Europe
Six Setúbal Surprises
Economically and gastronomically upwardly mobile, the city of Setúbal, south of Lisbon, has more secrets than the average espionage agent; these are just six of them… […]
Europe
Using online travel advice to choose where to eat in Venice
Not knowing Venice, I thought it might be an interesting exercise to use some of the online tools at hand to see which came out tops. […]
Food & drink
It’s time to banish boring salads
Any self respecting tomato salad is going to have a dressing which involves more than a waiter plonking a bottle of olive oil in front of you. It’s also going to include herbs such as basil and/or oregano. […]
Europe
13 reasons why we love restaurants in Setúbal
We already knew Setúbal in Portugal was famed for its choco frito (fried cuttlefish) restaurants, but we had no idea that the rest of the gastronomic scene was quite so, well, interesting. […]
Europe
Confused about the cuisine, gastronomy in the Canary Islands
A study into what visitors to the Canary Islands thought about the food they experienced has thrown up some interesting and illuminating findings. […]
Food & drink
People who should never write Tripadvisor restaurant reviews
I reference Tripadvisor frequently because it is massively influential. It can be incredibly useful. We use it all the time for pointers, but we know how to sort the wheat from the chaff. And there’s an awful lot of chaff. […]
Algarve
Finding the flavours of Portugal part 2, Lisbon, Tagus Valley and The Algarve
Over the last twelve months we’ve visited all five of mainland Portugal’s regions, encountering a delightfully diverse gastronomy which has regularly surprised. […]
Alentejo
Finding the flavours of Portugal part 1, the north, central and Alentejo
Over the last twelve months we’ve visited all five of mainland Portugal’s regions, encountering a delightfully diverse gastronomy which has regularly surprised. This is an abridged version of regional dishes we enjoyed most in Porto and the north, central Portugal and also the Alentejo. […]
Food & drink
Avoiding gastronomic adulthood
Since we left the UK we’ve eaten out far more than we ever did in Blighty, so you tend to notice eating patterns more; a lot of people don’t stray from their culinary comfort zones. […]