Santorini has many things going for it. But until we went to Katina, I wouldn’t have counted the food as one of them. There was plenty of sturdy bread and thick yogurt. There were slices of tomatoes – some of which were properly ripe. There were puddles of blitzed eggplant and scads of fava- a […]
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It’s hard not to feel a little smug in Santorini. It’s been voted the most beautiful island in the world. Between the aquamarine water, cobalt sky, cobbled streets and cliffs hugged by white houses, it’s got a lot of assets. There should probably be a sign somewhere on the edge of the island that warns […]
When we arrived in Lisbon, we knew our appreciation of Portuguese cuisine was stunted. We were primed for Portuguese tarts. We knew about salt cod and we were blindly hoping to find scads of Portuguese chicken. (NB much to The Hungry One’s Bondi-Burger-loving-disappointment, it turns out that flattened breast with a peri peri sauce is […]
Good things come to those who wait. It’s only 35 minutes on the train from Lisbon to Estoril. The trains go every twenty minutes up to the beaches of the Caiscas. Yet none of those numbers take into account the hurdle of hundreds of people flooding the train station on a Saturday morning when the […]
There are many great things to eat in Copenhagen. It’s hard to look past the culinary headliners of Noma. But man can not live on one meal alone. Even if it includes 12 appetisers. The morning after our feast at Noma we woke up in need of food, and coffee. Good coffee we found at […]