Monthly Archives: March 2014

Augustine Kitchen – London

Augustine Kitchen 63 Battersea Bridge Road 
 Battersea LONDON SW11 3AU Tel: 020 7978 7085   What is apparent when you walk through the door of this newish French restaurant is that they mean business.  Olga the restaurant manager has a controlled confidence that would be hard to topple in adversity, not that there was

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Divine Chocolate Truffles

Divine Chocolate               I had quite a bit of fun recently when I attended a chocolate making lesson at one of Divine’s pop up shops in Covent Garden.  In conjunction with Fairtrade, Divine has forged links with farmers in Ghana to harvest and produce chocolate for them.  And what a great job they are

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Learning to Cook Italian at Tozi

Tozini cooking Lessons Tozi Restaurant 8 Gillingham Street London SW1V 1HJ Tel: 020 7769 9771   The Victoria based Italian restaurant Tozi has come up with a great idea to keep your kids busy during the school holidays.  Maurilio Molteni the talented head chef will be holding cooking lessons teaching your children how to cook

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Lal Bagh – Hertfordshire

Lal Bagh 7 Chalk Hill Bushey Hertfordshire WD19 4BL Tel: 01923 224405   Bushey is not far from Watford it’s a quiet backwater with lots of countryside around it.  We found ourselves there recently early on a Saturday evening, hungry and cold.  The restaurant was open early and in we went.  Almost straight away the

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Ask Italian – London

Ask Italian 52 Upper Street Islington London N1 0PN Tel: 020 7226 8728 When I was a child growing up there was a TV personality and quizmaster called Robert Robinson.  He chaired a quiz programme popular in the sixties through to the eighties.  The format required two teams, each consisting of four members from a

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