Just noticed that the nice people at Budweiser have sent my bar a few free cases of Budweiser E: the new Energy Beer from Bud. I am assuming that the key point of said beer is that not all of the sugar turns to alcohol and therefore leaves you super-[…]

I have just received a box full of about 5000 flyers for a website called chinesefood4u.co.uk (also handily known as chf4u.co.uk. The flyer describes the website as “The website where you can get discount meal vouchers from different Chinese re[…]

It’s an unexpected and wonderful pleasure when you get to eat a familiar food cooked much better than you’ve ever had it. All my life I’ve been eating roast chicken, and for a few years I’ve been roasting roast chicken, and it[…]

a) Have a Chef’s Special deal on your menu which offers a starter, main course, dessert and coffee for £15.95.
b) Price the Dover Sole at £15.95.
Voila.
It was fucking tasty too. As was the antipasto, the tiramisu and the coffee. Hooray for r[…]

We knew he shut down Radio Caroline but well will history judge him now we know he was key to stopping nationalisation of the breweries in the 1970s? Bloody left methodist fun hating tradition bah humbug.[…]

aka What I Made For The In-Laws On Christmas Eve
1. Boil and mash some potatoes.
2. Brown some beef mince. Add a little cooking wine and some beef bouillon to make it juicier. I’d meant to do some onion with this but I forgot it.
3. Add raisins[…]

On Saturday I ate:
Bacon Sandwich
A pint of Young’s Winter Warmer
Venison, walnut and beetroot salad*
Game pie (with veggies and tatties)*
A glass of champagne*
Wine to the max*
Water sucked through a marrowbone*
Eccles Cake and Lancashire crum[…]

even if you have probs in the past w.it bein gloopy and more liquid than firm – requirin more time in the oven to sort – DO NOT poke the top of yr gingerbread as it emerges after 50s mins
not only is it PIPING HOT it is also PIPING STICK[…]

Knightsbridge may not strike you as the happiest hunting grounds for a good boozer and in the case of the Beauchamp Tavern you’d be right. Why mention it at all? Because it’s such an object lesson in how not to do a hybrid bar/pub. Its hy[…]

ALPINE BLOODY LAGER????? i mean , i’m not a lager drinker by any stretch of the imagination, but Sam Smiths have now finally lost any sembalence of the plot. the MAN is still there, though, of course, no longer in his box, but where it used to […]