My week

I was very glad that everything seems to have calmed down in London today and I can ride my bicycle again.   I'm absolutely loving my new found freedom and I've been going all over the place.  The first day I rode it I didn't even like a car going past me!  I'm fine now although I'm steering clear of main roads, bendy buses and car doors opening!   I never took my driving test and haven't had a

Dressing up with Mrs Jones

Every time I go into the studio for a meeting I always end up getting dressed up by Mrs Jones.  There are so many fabulous clothes and accessories in there you just want to try stuff on.  I'm usually sitting around in the office in a showgirl headdress or something.  Here I'm wearing a huge feather boa that Fee bought in LA.

Accessorised with the most mental glasses.  They have patterned

Take-out from A Little of What You Fancy and their Time Out review

Time Out says *****By Euan Ferguson
Hackney's patterns of immigration have ensured the borough has never been short of decent dining options - as long as you want some of the best Turkish or Vietnamese food in London.  Yet the middle-class colonisers who have been boosting the area's property prices for years haven't had much in the way of more traditionally British ingredients to get their

My amazing new local - A Little Of What You Fancy

I have eaten in every establishment Elaine Chalmers has ever cooked in.  Ten years ago when she ran the restaurant below Smallfish Records on Old Street I would go in for my breakfast, back for my lunch and often pick up something for my dinner, it was easy to eat healthily as the salads were inspired, interesting and so delicious.  Elaine's is a genius with food.  
After a stint cooking at the

Congratulations to my friends at the Restaurant Awards!

Bistrotheque's Studio East on the roof of Westfield at the Olympic site

Big congratulations to my great friends Pablo, David and Tom for winning the American Express Innovation Award at the 2010 London Restaurant Festival Awards last night.


The chap from Amex with Head Chef Tom Collins, with Co-Owners Pablo Flack and David Waddington
Pablo and David own the legendary East London venue

Birthday dinner at Hawksmoor

On Friday night we went to Hawksmoor which is one of our favourite places to eat.  The restaurant is named after the nearby Christchurch, Spitalfields designed by architect Nicholas Hawskmoor.
Hawksmoor is always busy and on Friday night it was packed.  Famed for it's excellent steak which comes from the Ginger Pig's Longhorn cattle reared on their farm in Yorkshire.  You order your meat weight