Tin cup time people! The National Three Peaks is just a few weeks away and my sponsorship page is up and running, hint hint. In preparation for the National, I walked the Yorkshire Three Peaks a few weeks back with a crowd from work. The walk finished up in a pub near the bottom of the last …
What boring race today. Crap day for the Brits and not even Martin’s grid-walk livened things up. However, when Button doesn’t win, Hamilton falls back and Webber and Vettel don’t crash into each other, there is only one person you can call. Eddie Jordan. Yes, just when I was giving up on this sad excuse …
There are three main reasons to visit The Gun. Firstly, if it is good enough for Admiral Nelson then it is good enough for you (he ‘entertained’ his mistress, Emma Hamilton in the River Room, and I don’t think they were playing backgammon, if you get my drift). Secondly, this quaint Docklands pub, lovingly restored …
Summer 2007. Hello, my name’s Gordon. I own quite a few restaurants – lots in the United Kingdom and a few around the world. OK, so some of them are kind of not what they used to be as I like to focus on television work now as it pays rather well. Cheffing makes me …
Disclaimer: London is one of the best places in the world for dining out. All cuisines, budgets and perversions are well-catered for. That said… 1. “Sorry, we don’t take bookings” No stranger to shit-lists, this one. Eating out in London costs a pretty penny. Londoners work hard, and play hard. We are surrounded by amazing …
It’s the MasterChef final tomorrow! Like the day now known as ‘Broadchurch Day’, there are plenty of burning questions and in a little under twenty-four hours they will all be answered. Has Larkin lost it? His ‘fifty shades of pink’ fish stew looked like it came from Tesco, and general consensus was that it tasted …
What a difference a day makes. The other evening, I was eating a Monster Munch and processed-cheese sandwich. Exactly twenty-four hours later I am a little drunk, a little full – and facing an artisan cheeseboard dilemma. What to have? Our waiter – one of the many heroes of the evening – solved the problem; …
Obviously, if you are heading up a major United States restaurant chain, one which turns over in excess of $1.2billion per year across 850 outlets worldwide, you need to get into the bustling British economy – fast. And where better to set up shop first than the burgeoning metropolises of Cheltenham and Cardiff? This is …
It’s been an entertaining start to the Formula One season. Couple of different winners, commoving races, meltdown at Red Bull, that kind of thing. One thing felt missing though, but thankfully this weekend, at the Chinese Grand Prix, it returned. Eddie Jordan’s shirts. If Formula One was a doughnut, EJ’s sense of fashion would be …
With moderation being the last stand of the unimaginative, I have kind of embarked upon a stomach-turning odyssey of calorific magnificence recently. Time to take stock. With a Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge just around the corner and a National Three Peaks only a couple of months’ away, perhaps having a few weeks which are a …
I am never one to plug the unpluggable, or market the meaningless, but something needs to be said about Starbucks’ Guatemala Antigua coffee. S.G.A. – I cannot spell Guatemala off-by-heart and hate surrendering to spell-check – is a fresh blend, kicking off a brave new dawn at the Green Mermaid where the masses and me can choose …
What is the best way to drink Coca-Cola with alcohol? Screw back a few years and UniMike would have told you that a double Jack Daniels and Coke is the future – however the future is now here – and for modern me, drinking that particular drink is like chugging back ice-cold maple syrup (to …