‘Food and Drink’ Archives
Loaf Expectations: We Review The Fabulous Baker Brothers
Flashy, low quality cookery-pokery fronted by sibling irritants. Your Mum might like this. She is wrong. I found myself shouting in impatient profanity at Channel 4's new cooking show The Fabulous Baker Brothers this week. Everything about this vehicle for foodie Herbert [Read More]
Well Bread: We Review Brood Bar, Amsterdam
Good Brood. Amsterdam's bread bar is fast, friendly and far from crusty. Just a short hop for hungry travellers emerging from Amsterdam's Centraal Station, and closer still to Nieuemarkt if you're looking for landmarks, you can find satisfyingly simple Brood Bar on the [Read More]
Restaurant Review: Hemelse Modder, Amsterdam
Set back from the hubbub but within touching distance of the action, Contemporary Dutch restaurant Hemelse Modder represents the best of central Amsterdam, combining a warm, relaxed welcome with excellent food and a few refreshingly civilised, open-minded touches of the [Read More]
Restaurant Review: Low Mark –The Mark Addy, Salford
Prettily accented with strategic candlelight, Salford’s The Mark Addy, on the banks of the Irwell, makes unlikely elegance out of its exposed brickwork arches. Those who have seen it in the daylight in the aftermath of one of the restaurant’s semi-frequent adventures in [Read More]
Med in Manchester – Restaurant Review: Twisted Med, Castlefield
Boasting a chef once of Manchester heavyweight Stock, and set on the Locks alongside populist money-spinner Albert's Shed, Twisted Med seems all set up for success. It's not quite there yet though. Squeezed in beneath one of Castlefield Locks’ distinctive railway arches, [Read More]
