One of our regular customers briefly dated a chef and lucky for the cafe, he passed the recipe onto us. Five ingredients, wickedly delicious, it flies off the shelf at The Lounge Cafe. I should cocoa. Serves 8 1 pack … Read More
Wonderful Roast Chicken Disappointing Mackerel escabeche The Whippet Inn on Chamberlayne Road has a very elegant yet relaxed feel to it. Blazing sunshine on a Sunday lunchtime lead us to the very pleasant outdoor seating area at the front of … Read More
A sunny Sunday afternoon is made specifically for one reason – to seek out a splendid inn serving craft ales for the boys and decent, affordable wine to quaff with your rare rib of beef with all the trimmings. A charming setting is, … Read More
Cold pressed extra virgin olive oil – the stuff of life. The day I don’t use olive oil in one form or another is the day they find me in a coma. Liquid gold I call it. With its built … Read More
Recipes continuously evolve. Sometimes you do things by happy accident and being rather pushed for time I decided to make the sauce for my moussaka by melting parmesan, mature cheddar and mustard in a vat of double cream. it’s incredibly … Read More
This spicy little number has recently been added to the breakfast menu at the café and it’s proving to be very popular. A hot, tangy and creamy egg centre is encased in a tortilla wrap. Delicious. TIP Add a dollop … Read More
Sticky, gooey, deeply chocolaty and with the most wonderfully moist, velvet like texture, this gorgeous cake flew out of the cafe. Thanks to Christian Molinari, our Italian pastry chef pal, he allowed me to publish the recipe. This will be … Read More
. They used it during the first world war on wounds as they just have with my friend who came back from hospital with an open wound which had been flooded with Manuka honey. It seems this magical substance draws off impurities … Read More