Restaurant: Bubbledogs Cuisine: American Location: Fitzrovia The bill: £26 per person, but depends on which Champagne you order! Chef: James Knappett Ambiance: Crowded, cosy, log-cabin-esque Jelly Good Food Rating: 7/10 Le Review: Fast food week! 9pm Friday night we made it to Bubbledogs, their third night after opening, together with a large group of friends (they only take bookings if you are 6 or more, and we didn’t fancy queuing). The concept is…
Restaurant: Dirty Burger Cuisine: American Location: Highgate/Kentish Town The bill: £27 total including beers Ambiance: “Rustic Grunge” Jelly Good Food Rating: 7/10 Le Review: London’s lusty affair with trendy-no-frills burger joints continues. Thursday night, on the way home from work, Jelly visited Dirty Burger, which is just behind Pizza East, Kentish town. The venue is certainly a bit dirty: basically its a small metal shack between Pizza East and the…
Restaurant: My Village (this is not a restaurant-restaurant, its a cafe, I guess like the title suggests 🙂 Cuisine: Mediterranean, Vegan, Vegetarian Location: Camden, Chalk Farm Road The bill: £7 or so Ambience: hippy, laid back, comforting Jelly Good Food Rating: 8/10 So this is my hangover/detox place. They only have vegetarian/vegan things in here, and you can buy those kind of products there as well as get fed. The food…
Cafe: Novus, Courtyard Location: National Museum of Singapore Price: 24 Singapore $ – circa £12 (including tea) Sweet café in the spacious lobby of the newly refurbed Museum – civilised and peacefull with some artisan cakes on display to lure you in. There is a rather posh restaurant attached too, but we were really just after the cakes at this point. The menue suggested to chose 3 or 6 from…
Tisettanta Lounge, Hotel Fort Canning, Singapore
February 26, 2012Located in the lobby of Fort Canning Hotel, Tisettanta Lounge is the centrepiece bar – it’s run by the same guys who who run the Gattopardo restaurant next door – both are Italian themed. Tisettanta provides hot and cold snacks and also a small selection of cocktails beyond the normal options. We had the breaded and fried mozzarella balls – filled with anchovies and dressed with pesto. First time for…
Location: Esplanade Mall, Singapore We ordered: Bubble Caramel Fresh Milk Tea Salty Yuzu Ice Cream Peach Green Tea Never heard of Bubble tea before my trip to Singapore – basically its a a tea base mixed with fruit and/or milk. The Caramel one I didn’t like much because it basically tasted like flavoured milk but the Salty Yuzu was actually pretty nice and refreshing. Still no idea what Yuzu is, or whether thats…