I have a shady history with wine. I like drinking it, I like the complexity wine can deliver, but when we hang out together for longer than a couple of glasses, I go one of two ways. I fall asleep, which has happened mid-way through meals, or I lose the...

Opening a restaurant at any point over the last couple of years has been a brave move. Though many people have faced tough times during the past few years, small luxuries like going out for dinner once in a while, is what often keeps us sane, makes us realise it's...

Bars on the top floor of a hotel are usually not my thing. A bar in the basement, yes. Which seems to sum up my preference to eating and drinking establishments. More of an ass man, so to speak. I prefer the down trodden, less glamourous places. This might have...

Had I known the duck's feet were raw before I put them in my mouth, perhaps I would have been better prepared. These de-boned and de-cartilaged ducks webbing were not only raw but must've been left in a vat of horseradish for over a month.

These nosebleed-inducing delicacies brought...

It sounded a bit weird to me at first. Iced coffee? I'd had a mouthful of forgotten coffee a few times before, each time more disturbing than the last. "You've got to get passed that 'cold coffee' thought." Explained Jim Cregan, the man behind Jimmy's Iced Coffee. To...

I felt obliged to take another blackened sausage, after such rigmarole, it seemed only polite. Amidst the taste of soot and ash there was now only a hint of the premium pork and apple. The bangers that showed so much promise, were undeniably, ruined. The British barbecue has always been...