Airlines Hotel Restaurant, The Rameshwaram Cafe and Burma Burma, Bangalore
“As I ate my spiced idli and sipped at a lassi standing at the metal tables arm to arm with other punters having their own Saturday lunchtime treats, I could imagine myself as one of the patrons just stopping in for a bite on the way home after a morning run”
Noma and John's Hot Dog Deli, Copenhagen
“Being in the home of street dogs and with months of sausage-free eating behind me, it was time for an allowance to be made”
"Which is how, for some reason, we ended up with 15kg of top end Japanese rice in the apartment having hand carried it back in hold luggage on two separate occasions."
Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, London
“As we entered the very luxurious hotel within which the restaurant was situated, I noticed the doorman squirm, as he silently but not totally imperceptibly judged my choice of outfit.”
All the best places, Gracia, Barcelona
“The only realistic option was a slightly mad dash to the bus terminal, at which point I basically entirely lost the plot, and along with it any hope of eating tasty grilled molluscs before the day was out. Buses, as we all know, are slow and sh*t.”
“This post is actually nothing at all to do with food.””
House of Prime Rib, San Francisco
“The “King Henry” cut, which must have originally been invented for a hungry family of large Polynesians, felt crude in the extreme, but even the standard cut was massive.”
Lao Dao and El Marsem, Elephant and Castle
“The waiter became suspicious when our friends didn’t immediately arrive, and continued peppering us with sideways glances until they eventually did”
“I used to defend the London food scene. “If you know where to go, it’s good” I would say. “Try this place” I would implore, as weary foreign visitors signalled their disappointment after over-sampling the UK’s endless supply of white carbs”
