There are those who do not care for the beer festival, see Tim below. There are others who relish a challenge, will take on the enemy at face value and like the idea of a good Leo*. And so Sarah and Carsmile got there about three, and I rolled in at […]

There is little novelty now in food blogs which take a single, tiny area of the nosh world and plough them into entertaining furrows. Nevertheless two blogs by Russell Davies take the art of obviousness and raise them to truly stupendous heights.
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I was nearly rude to a man in the Wenlock Arms a few days back. I was sipping demurely on a series of diet cokes while all those around me tucked into delicious-smelling, fine-looking, well-kept real ales. At the bar, enviously buying my companions m[…]

CAMRA beer fest is upon us, which prompted me to look up the history of alcopops. And what did I find on the Bacardi Breezer website? A history of said drink in the FAQ’s which bore no time or content relation to my memory of it:
1. When was Ba[…]

In Sainsbury’s the other day I noticed that Lambrini had a special offer on, and was now 99p a bottle. That’s ninety-nine pence for 750ml of 7.5% booze – the same price as Tennants or Spesh, only slightly weaker and 50% larger. Risk[…]

(and emsk and stev!e ch!ck) wz v.nice, w.plenty of top rockchat, and they said they enjoyed their sandwiches, which is good bcz i suggested we go to angel’s cheap and languid courtyard cafe, even though i (afterwards) recalled i had the second […]

CAMRA have pub preservation officers in their local groups. Just a note that the one in North London has been doing a pretty bad job of it lately. Three pubs of my acquaintance have closed down, or even knocked down in the last couple of months. But […]

Continuing CAMRA baiting week, I grab a copy of North London CAMRA’s monthly free sheet The Full Pint last night. Full of wonderful revelations, including the article about which postcodes are in North London Branch’s remit. Fascinating. […]

Despite my love of all things ale-y I have never made it to the Great British Beer Festival, mainly out of laziness rather than solely due to my disdain for CAMRA. Clearly Thursday is out of the question though, “just a bit of fun” or no[…]

Liz D, a good friend of many of us, and a regular contributor to Freaky Trigger, was killed in the bombings in London on July 7th.
This is a compilation of links to Liz’ posts for us about food. I was planning to put together some of my favouri[…]