Words of Advice ~ Dominic Chapman
So this week we’ve had a glut of responses to our calls for chefs to participate in our series of ’5questions’. One such respondent was Heston Blumenthal’s former Head Chef, Dominic Chapman. Now ploughing his trade just down the road from The Fat Duck empire at The Royal Oak, Paley Street near Maidenhead. Having a … Read more
Foodie Crossword
Just for a change we thought we’d put together a cheeky little competition. Unfortunately it’s just for fun, so there are no prizes sadly. A downloadable version is available from our server: Crossword Enjoy
Recipe ~ Tomato & Basil Consomme
Again we’ve been a touch busy, so here is our recipe for Tomato & Basil consomme, well actually the base of it is Gordon Ramsay’s which we’ve tweeked. Then after watching the culinary alchemist that is Heston Blumenthal, we realised that the recipe could be improved by applying some of Mr Blumenthal’s thinking. We’ve added … Read more
Celebrity Chefs, well it got us thinking…
As is our want whilst surfing the net for inspiration, we often have a mooch around the catering trade press websites. Principally Caterersearch and BigHospitality , then we came across an editorial written by Mark Lewis from The Caterersearch.com website on the business case for celebrity chefs. He talks with David Nicholls, once Executive Chef … Read more
The Follow up to Alinea – and it looks awesome.
Over the past 2 weeks we’ve been following Grant Achatz on Twitter, On the 3rd of May he announced on Twitter & Facebook that the next projects would be called NEXT restaurant & The Aviary Bar . The concept of NEXT is an intriguing one, with all the press releases we read, NEXT is the … Read more
An update of 50 Best Restaurants, a review of our leak
So after we post our leak on the TableTalk forum, we received an incredible amount of interest in our little blog. Many thanks to all of you that took the time, it’s very flattering. Back to the subject in hand, as we said at the time we’d already done 2 posts on the Friday when our source … Read more
Is Bray the new Padstow?
So nice sunny day, we’re enjoying the sunshine on our break & it feels like Pimms O’clock. Then all of a sudden the phone rings and a source tells us a nice little tip bit about our favourite chef, Heston Blumenthal. The sleepy village of Bray in Berkshire was once the preserve of the grey … Read more
