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 […]
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Food articles written by Nellie Nichols, which include restaurant reviews, international sandwich and snack news, and Food to Go reviews.
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 […]
Pardoe & Wood
Georgina Wood, a former NPD Controller for Hazlewoods and more recently Head of Food at EAT, has opened a sandwich bar with Jenny Murphy, an area manager of five years’ standing at EAT. Nellie Nichols went along to find out if this dream team is producing a dream product. The City of London’s skyline changed […]
Tossed
Salad and sandwich bars have multiplied in recent years, buoyed up by the surge in healthy and light eating. Tossed is up there with the most successful. Nellie Nichols went to visit the founder Vincent McKeritt, BS (Batchelor of Salad), with his seventh unit about to open. My first salad memory is of Butter lettuce, […]
Green Goddess and a Panini, Please
It’s that time of year when a detox juice and healthy food looms large in shoppers’ minds. Where better for Nellie Nichols to visit than Crussh, the fast-expanding juice and sandwich bar. I’m staring at two of the most hideously green coloured drinks I’ve ever seen and they both look like something out of The […]
Make the New Year Go with a Bang Bang
Restaurant Review – Mao Thai I am sitting at what is undoubtedly one of the most glamorous cocktail bars in Fulham. My son Ollie is with me, the night before he goes back to Oxford University, and above us are the most beautiful giant lampshades made of goose feathers. This would definitely be one of […]
Dinner of Your Dreams
Restaurant Review – Tendido Cuatro I’ve always hated poor imitations of anything. Frankly, if it’s worth copying the only way it will ever be vaguely acceptable is with the right attention to detail, especially when it comes to food. Think instant mash made with boiling water versus fluffy spuds stirred with milk, melting butter and […]
Put Your Dukes Up
Restaurant Review – The Duke on the Green Traditionally pubs in England were places for drinking with little or no emphasis on food. I remember as a child sitting in pub gardens with my family on the odd warm summer’s evening and being offered the ubiquitous choice of pork scratchings, peanuts, a packet of crisps […]
Bollywood ‘Hero’ Makes a Dishy Host
Restaurant Review: The Red Onion I have always loved a curry but, let’s face it, they can be rather predictable and disappointing. Without a doubt it’s our own fault, blindly inventing styles like tikka and masala that have never held a candle to the authenticity of Indian food. Time and time again I set off […]
Catch Cabin Fever for a Superb Steak
I have to say I had almost given up hope. Every time I order a steak in a restaurant I’m disappointed. It’s either the size (ridiculously small), the way it’s been grilled (why don’t they listen?) or just the plain lack of taste (please change your butcher), altogether reminiscent of supermarket meat in neat plastic […]