Every nation on earth has its own street food or some version of it. Mexico has Tacos, New York it’s Pretzels and Hot Dogs, the UK Cornish Pasties and Pork Pies. The Middle East has falafel, the Far East has everything from Pho to bbq crickets, while India has samosa and Pav Bhaji. But India…
Author: Joss Bassett
Joss is the Editor of London Lamppost, with a special interest in food, drink and Travel. He's also one of those rare creatures that was born and raised in London.
The Boulevardier
2017 was unquestionably the year of the Negroni; it was hard to walk past a bar in London last summer and not see it listed as one of the cocktails on offer. Invented, as the story goes, for Count Negroni in 1919 when he asked the barman to make him a stronger version of his…
Berberè: Bologna's Pizza via Noma
Thankfully, pizza has been undergoing a regeneration, and a global level one at that, for the last few years. London and New York are awash with new or newish pizza parlours, each with their own trademark style –Homeslice with its 20 inches of out-there imaginative flavour toppings is, for me, the best pizza to be…
A Weekend on Skye
The drive to Skye is one of the most amazing in the UK. After a summer rain shower, the vibrancy of the surroundings is majestic, especially in Glencoe. A word of warning though. If you’re taking the ferry to Skye, you need to book in advance – something we only discovered upon arrival and, with…
The Worlds Best Breakfast
What’s the best breakfast dish in the world? Is it the UK’s full English? America’s waffles and pancakes? France’s croissants and jams? China’s dim sum and dumplings? Or Japan’s rice, fish and miso soup? No, it’s an Indian dish by way of Portugal – Pav Bhaji. Pav, Portuguese in origin (a literal translation being bread),…
A Filthy Filthy Burger
For all the fancy burgers out there, an much as I and many of us love them, at times all you want is a filthy greasy finger licking burger of the purest variety where the juices run down your arm. Sure you can go to somewhere like Bleecker and order one of the best such…