The venue for lunch was to be Tredwell’s, one of Marcus Wareing’s fine restaurants. Tredwell’s offers “relaxed fine dining” and was the winner of the AA Restaurant of the Year Award 2015. It’s now under chef-patron Chantelle Nicholson, who has been working with Marcus Wareing since 2006. By the way, Chantelle recently released a fantastic…
Author: Steven Shakeshaft
Steve is originally from Birmingham but moved to The Big Smoke 10 years ago. Living in Kentish Town for 2 years, he now lives in South East London near Lewisham with his wife and son.
He enjoys eating out and drinking with friends when he has the chance and cooking at home. He documents his dinning and cooking adventures on https://www.shakeyeats.co.uk/
Bodean’s
I’ve been eating at various Bodean’s BBQ restaurants for years, and they have just introduced a deal between 12-5pm, for a whole rack of ribs, chips and coleslaw for £10. I was going to see my friends screening of her music documentary, Bunch of Kunst, at Rough Trade East, so decided to take advantage of…
We look back at - The Worst Food Festival EVER (possibly)!
I, my better half, and a few friends recently attended an event called “Shake Your Patty Burger and Milkshake” food festival. It was to be ‘the best burger joints and shake-makers in London’ with guest DJs and booze to make it a proper adult day out. Run by FatBoiz Dinner Club, the venue for this…
Big Easy
Big Easy’s Covent Garden location (there’s also one on Kings Road and another in Canary Wharf) is nicely located and always busy, but you can turn up on spec and put your name on a waiting list for a table later. Spread over two large floors, we were seated downstairs near the stage (did I…
Gillray’s Steak House
The company I work for organise a Christmas party for all of us on the contract. My team, however, usually have our own as we’ve always been kind of separate from everyone else. This year it was down to me to decide where we would go. We like to eat and have a good drink…
Zander Bar – London’s best-kept secret
This year it was down to me to organise the works Christmas outing. Having been pointed towards Gillray’s Steak House by Bookatable.com (always a handy tool and you can read about our experience there here) it was decided to grab drinks before our 7pm reservation. Zander at the Bank Restaurant at the St James Hotel…
Katzenjammers
As anyone with a job and friends knows it can be almost impossible to balance them both and not lose contact with friends. Because of this a few of us try to have a regular get together, though these days they tend to me more irregular meet ups. As food and drink lovers we also…