Since it’s opening, Frenchie Covent Garden has been one of my favourite places in London. It’s set lunch is one of the best, and best value, menus on offer in London. Frenchie is the London out post of Greg Marchand’s Paris based restaurant Frenchie, where it’s had a huge impact on the city’s food culture…
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.
Book Review: Food & Beer
Beer has undergone a renaissance of late, or rather its underground resurgence of the last twenty to thirty years has become mainstream thanks to growth in microbreweries in Europe and the craft beer scene in the US. So powerful has this revitalisation been, that many of the multinationals have been buying up, investing in, or…
The Pheasant Cheese Toasty
Ingredients for One: 2 slices of seeded bread Good handfull of Mature cheddar – gratedFinely chopped leftover roast pheasant meat – about a dessert spoonful Large teaspoon of Dijon mustardGood slug of Worcestershire saucePinch of salt and pepperSplash of the pheasant gravy and the cooking juices. Method: Put everything (except the bread) into a bowl…
Frenchie - London's Best Set Lunch Menu
Frenchie is a bright shining star among the slew of great openings on Covent Garden’s Henrietta Street. Set up by Jamie Oliver’s head chef at Fifteen Shoreditch, Grégory Marchand, it marks his return to London from Paris, and the opening of a London branch of his Parisian restaurant, also named Frenchie. Not a vast site,…
A Guide to Soho
(This covers east of Wardour Street and south of Brewer Street.) Once synonymous with the sex industry (both gay and straight) and London’s nightlife, Soho has been smartening up over the years. This has seen the area clean up its act, but in the process concerns have been raised that it’s losing it’s character. As…
Venice - How Not to be a Tourist
It’s one of the biggest clichés, but, yes, Venice is magical. Or rather it can be. It can also be like something out of Dante’s Inferno (yes I know he’s a Florentine not a Venetian but I couldn’t think of an appropriate local to use for a simile). You arrive in the city by water…