Amsterdam Foodie

I get quite a few emails requesting me to try out someone’s new restaurant/cookery school/dining concept/food product/[insert random not-always-food-related service here]. For reasons of time and money management, not to mention the potential for obesity, I often have to say no. But something about HelloFresh’s request clearly appealed, because a week later two young men [...]

There’s nothing original about the title of this post. In fact, I nicked it from another article on the same subject. But it was a term I found very useful when Googling restaurants in Copenhagen. The fact that the city is now home to the world’s number-one restaurant means that the rest of its food [...]

When I was 17 my first nephew was born, which means that ever since I’ve been an adult there have always been kids around at Christmas. It also means that I’ve always gone back to my parents’ place in England, or to my brother’s house in Belgium. For the most part, Christmas is about children [...]

It’s not often that I write about England. It’s not where I live, and yet it never feels like a holiday. It’s this damp, foggy, funny little island that I happen to come from. I even try to avoid telling people I’m English (although the pallid skin tone and the accent do have a habit [...]

Dear foodies, Food in Texas is about two things: barbecue and Mexican. So here’s my roundup of the best of both… The barbecue pit at Smitty’s Market in Lockhart… … and the brisket and sausage I ate there. Meat on a sword from Texas de Brazil Churrascaria in Fort Worth. Enchiladas from Polvos in Austin [...]

Dear foodies, After my last post about New Orleans, one Facebook fan (or liker, or whatever you want to call them) pronounced – concisely but astutely – that you win some, you lose some. Well, in Baton Rouge, I won some. Quite a lot, actually. I can’t necessarily claim it was Baton Rouge itself that [...]