London’s new Leon offshoot Flat Planet may be an unorthodox operation, but its flat-bread sandwich offer is inspired – so good, in fact, that the El Diablo has now been added to Nellie Nichols’ current top five favourites, along with Mooli’s Goat Roti. August has to be one of my favourite months of the year: […]
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Lunch! 29-30 Sept at Old Billingsgate
Nellie Nichols will be hosting a Sandwich & Snack Surgery live at lunch! at 10.45am on Friday 30th September in the Working lunch! Keynote Theatre. When I embarked in this food business in the mid eighties ‘Food To Go’ didn’t exist. M & S had just broken new ground with their first manufactured sandwiches; prawn […]
Well Bread
The Earl of Sandwich could be looking at “a big pot of gold” with his new London sandwich bar, if some of the initial teething troubles are sorted out. ‘Going into trade’ was apparently one of the worst things an aristocrat could ever do, along with “buying your own furniture” as the late Tory politician […]
Coffee Pret Kitchen
Pret has announced new openings for its new concept, Coffee Pret Kitchen, aimed at giving the sandwich chain access to smaller towns. But Nellie Nichols has some misgivings about the food range and the shop design. In my younger days I had a more cavalier approach to life and a tendency to behave in a […]
Sainsbury’s Fresh Kitchen
Sainsbury’s has taken a radical step with the opening of its new freshly-made sandwich bar format, Fresh Kitchen. Nellie Nichols went along to see how the new concept measures up against the very best. Nearly twenty years ago, the walk from Temple tube station to Fleet Street used to be part of my daily journey […]
Plenty to Moo About
New international sandwich concepts are arriving thick and fast in London, now surely the sandwich capital of the world. Nellie Nichols chases up one of the recent arrivals – the Argentinian Lomito, at the recently opened Moo Grill in Spitalfields. What an insular sandwich bubble I’ve been living in. I thought I had come across […]
The Mexican Way
Chipotle has been a ‘must’ stop off for sandwich designers on ‘new retail trends’ tours, since it opened in London recently. Is all the fuss justified? Nellie Nichols joined the queue to find out. I don’t ever want to go to Mexico, I think it’s a texture thing. I can only visit a country if […]
On Another Planet
Planet Organic has launched a range of organic sandwiches – Filling Station – in its London stores. Nellie Nichols went along to sample the new offerings. Although I care passionately about what I eat and where it comes from, I’m afraid I do sit very comfortably on the organic fence. I buy organic milk because […]
Food Porn in Fitzrovia
The best independent coffee shops are starting to counter the blandness of high street chains with inspiring offers. In the vanguard of the movement is Peter Dore-Smith’s Kaffeine in Great Titchfield Street, London, where the food is as fantastic as the coffee. Nellie Nichols meets the ‘true coffee Messiah’. I must admit I rather admire […]
Mooli Madly Deeply
Now and again, the sandwich business takes a major leap forward with the advent of an inspirational new concept or innovation. Mooli’s, a roti-based, Indian-inspired operation, represents just such a breakthrough, says Nellie Nichols. The remarkable and unpredictable come along far less often now in our so safe food world. Those flashes of simple, inspiring […]