Another day, another curry – benefit of living in Tooting: you are surrounded on all sides by rarely less than interesting curry houses. On Friday night we checked out yet another one (whose name you must remind me to edit into this post tomorr[…]

Visitors to Barcelona often find that the works of Mr Gaud’ are overshadowed, nay, pummelled into submission by the pleasures of Voll-Damm, the super-strong local lager whose premises loom into view as soon as the airport bus begins its slow tr[…]

I always thought that there was no upper bound to the amount of wine you could add to a risotto when cooking. After all, it is pretty essential that it be there in the first place, so why should there be a maximum. Well, last night i glugged a wee bi[…]

The publog may well be seeking submissions for a British version of Not Fooling Anybody. A fun, if somewhat culturally specific, site cataloguing rather poor makeovers of previous corporate-branded shops and restaurants. Much of the fun has been take[…]

On diet mixers! I tell you what, drinking vodka and boring ole slimline tonic is very BORING. Instead of the HURRAH HURRAH type drunk you get from Lovely Beer all you get is a headache and a vague feeling of restlessness and alienation. No wonder Ric[…]

Why oh why are there no cheese-based liqueurs? You get port IN stilton, you get cheese AND wine, you get beer-flavoured cheese, so surely the reverse would be unspeakably delicious: cheese IN wine? cheese IN beer? stilton IN port?
Anyway I got a bl[…]

No doubt like every other right-thinking publogger, I find this a blatant bit of bandwagon jumping…
What about the other 51 weeks of the year, eh? Part-timers, the lot of ’em…[…]

Being educated in a three school system meant that at age eleven my gang were kings of the School. (this not actually true, bullys were kings of the School but showed a lax attitude in this reign except getting tribute from those too weak to argue). […]

There are several Turkish places called Mangal in Dalston, and my friend R characterises this one as “the one where they’re not incredibly rude to the customers” – I haven’t been to the others so I don’t know if th[…]

As a keen student/pedant of juker science you’d have expected me to have tried one of the new-fangled Digital Jukeboxes before now but in fact the ILX pub crawl on the 30th was my first such encounter. And fogeyishly enough I’m not sure I[…]