This is a mantra I must take up full time. I have eaten three risottos out in restaurants in the last month, and been disappointed by all of them. My weekend savoury rice pudding experiment was at Branca, an Italian restaurant in Oxford. A smoked had[…]

Giant Drinks
I’m a sucker for giant size drinks. They make me feel like I’m in the pub version of Mr.Greedy.* At an gimmicky Austrian restaurant in West London last year I enjoyed myself with one-litre steins, in Tampere I had the opportu[…]

New Kitkat Bar
Released on 7th March. It’s full of mango and passionfruit and I’m not sure what to make of it. The taste is confusing. It reminds me of the first time I watched the Crying Game and said, “phoar, wouldn’t mind a[…]

Look at Steve M’s big ‘shroom.
In a new Publog feature called “We nicked this idea off of that’s life” why don’t people e-mial us pictures of big and malformed vegetables. Go on, it’ll be fun.[…]

A moment of rare drunken self reflection hit me at half past ten last night, and I mused about parallel universes. There I was just cracking on to the second bottle of port and puffing at a cigar in the Smoking Room of the National Liberal Club, thum[…]

Tally ho, vatos, or, um, something — The Cat and Fiddle on Sunset in Los Angeles is a somewhat unusual spot, really. The location itself isn’t unusual, in fact it’s pretty prime as it goes — some notable venues nearby, theate[…]

The Woodman is a nice pub in Battersea, not completely ruined by its recent refurbishment. It is odd though when you end up drinking with a local who has been going to the pub for twenty five years and you get a more than thorough overview of pub fas[…]

A whole kilo of MEAT
The Robster and I went to Prague for the weekend, and we spent some time looking at pretty buildings and fannying around in the snow before getting down to the real business at hand: beer. Much of this splendid substance was con[…]

STEAMED SPINACH!!
the atommick brane reminded me of steamed spinach: here is my question about it:
steam it for 3 minute = half the original size steam it for 6 mins = quarter the original size steam it for 9 mins = eighth the original size
so if[…]

hataz rejoice!!
non-fans of my bladdy diet will be delighted to hear that after the swimmer FAP – 1 pint london price, 1 pint jack frost, 1 vodka&tonic – it was SO WINDY AND WET AND COLD ON THE JOURNEY BACK that i needed three packe[…]