http://agirlhastoeat.com A food blog on restaurants, culinary adventures, cookery school & more! Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:34:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_6759" align="aligncenter" width="1024" caption="Chutney Mary"][/caption] Like restaurants such as Benares, Amaya and Rasoi, Chutney Mary falls into the category of Indian fine dining. It doesn't possess a Michelin star, but it does have a New King's Road location, fine cutlery service, a luxurious decor and prices that are ‘higher than-your-local-Indian' ... http://agirlhastoeat.com/chutney-mary-indian-restaurant-review Ricardo’s Italian Restaurant is a little Tuscan eatery that we – two girls at a loose end as to where to eat on a Saturday night – stumbled into. It’s not a well known restaurant, but I’ve driven past it a gazillion times and it’s always full, so I figured ... http://agirlhastoeat.com/ricardos-tuscan-italian-restaurant-review-fulham-road During the month of March, the Phoenix Bar & Grill in Putney, in association with Action Against Hunger, will be hosting a series of pop-up restaurants to raise money for the victims of the Haiti earthquake. The chefs that will be cooking include Philip Howard from The Square, Rowley Leigh, ... http://agirlhastoeat.com/phoenix-bar-grill-putney-pop-up-restaurant-haiti-earthquake-appeal It would not be an understatement to say that Galvin La Chapelle, the third restaurant to be opened by the Galvin brothers (Chris and Jeff), has to be one of the most stunning looking restaurants in London. A converted Grade-II listed building that was once a school chapel, the room ... http://agirlhastoeat.com/galvin-la-chapelle-restaurant-review [caption id="attachment_6676" align="aligncenter" width="1024" caption="Foie gras terrine"][/caption] The last couple of meals that I had with LD (at http://agirlhastoeat.com/marco-at-stamford-bridge-restaurant-review [caption id="attachment_6709" align="aligncenter" width="1024" caption="Wallace & Co."][/caption] Wallace & Co is the new cafe/restaurant (opened about three weeks) undertaking by Greg Wallace of Masterchef fame. You know, the self-proclaimed “cooking woman’s crumpet”. The happy chappy with the shiny skull and the big booming voice, who along with John Torode, came up ... http://agirlhastoeat.com/wallace-co-restaurant-cafe-review-greg-wallace-putney-london [caption id="attachment_6658" align="aligncenter" width="1024" caption="Sea bream"][/caption] I first heard about the concept of a ‘bed bar’ from watching Sex & the City years ago. (If you’re a serious fan like me and have watched every episode over and over again, then you’ll know the episode that I mean). It inspired ... http://agirlhastoeat.com/supperclub-restaurant-notting-hill-london-review [caption id="attachment_6634" align="aligncenter" width="1024" caption="Steak"][/caption] In the time that I have been in Salvador, the churrascaria, Brasil Legal, has became something of a favourite. Unlike http://agirlhastoeat.com/brasil-legal-restaurant-churrascaria-review-salvador-brazil Food wise, a trip to Brazil would be incomplete without a visit to a churrascaria. An all-you-can-eat affair, it offers what is known as a rodizio service. For a set price, you are presented with a choice of various types of barbecued meat (churrasco roughly translates from Portuguese as barbecue) ... http://agirlhastoeat.com/churrascaria-boi-preto-restaurant-review-salvador-bahia-brazil [caption id="attachment_6563" align="aligncenter" width="1024" caption="Pelourinho (Old Town), Salvador"][/caption] [caption id="attachment_6565" align="aligncenter" width="1024" caption="Pelourinho (Old Town), Salvador"][/caption] To most Brazilians, Salvador, the capital of the state of Bahia in the Northeast of Brazil, is home to the best carnival that this country has to offer. The one in Rio de Janiero might be ... http://agirlhastoeat.com/caranguejo-de-sergipe-restaurant-review-salvador-bahia-brazil [caption id="attachment_6522" align="aligncenter" width="1024" caption="A sample of my bread"][/caption] Some of you might remember my blog posts about my NVQ Level 1 cookery classes at Westminster College from before the summer. I did go back to Cookery School after my big summer trip ended in September. In fact, I even started ... http://agirlhastoeat.com/westminster-kingsway-college-cookery-school-nvq-level-one-two My first impression of the recently opened Hix Soho, the latest offering from celebrity chef Mark Hix on Brewer St, was that it didn’t have a door. If you’ve been to the restaurant you’ll probably understand what I mean. But it obviously does as there were people inside – I ... http://agirlhastoeat.com/mark-hix-soho-restaurant-review-british-food-london