Monthly Archives: February 2012

Merchants Bar and Restaurant

There is no shortage of cheap eats in Liverpool, I don’t mean chippies, kebab shops and fast food, fixed price and early evening menus are now common around the city and offer the best combination of price and quality. These menus straddle the line of being limited in choice but also cheap, if a restaurant gets it wrong it end up with a boring and limited menu which even the low price can’t justify. However, if they get it right, the fine balance between choice, quality and still making a profit, then these menus (1) (2) can offer some of the best meals out in the city. Does Merchants Bar and Restaurant get it right?

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Liverpool Supper Club

Liverpool supper club is a once monthly dining club hosted by Tom, Jo and Lucy, I’ve written about it before having first attended back in October. This months meal was their fourth and my second, it’s the perfect combination of great food, perfect service and a fantastic atmosphere. If you have any interest in food then a visit to one of their future meals should be firmly on your radar.

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Fantastic Bread Skills

This is Via  Anissa Helou, and her fantastic blog.

The bread making going on here is fantastic, almost hypnotic watching them work. The hours of skill and practice that have gone into this must be almost unthinkable. I love watching these videos, I bet the bread is fantastic aswell.

making lavash in iran from anissa helou on Vimeo.

baking lavash (or nan-e taftoon?) in tehran from anissa helou on Vimeo.

Crowdsourcing: Where's the best place to get pancakes in Liverpool?

Reblogged from Little Red Courgette:

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Sometimes, food bloggers get it wrong. Really wrong. This post was supposed to be a recipe for sourdough pancakes. I spent Saturday night harvesting some of my sourdough starter and turning it into the perfect sponge and Sunday morning mixing it together with an egg, some sugar and some milk to create – what I anticipated – would be a visual and sensory battery delight.

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MissCay says it all about pancakes in Liverpool.

Bubble Tea @ Cafe De Pearl

Sometimes I don’t like a meal because the food is bad, be it poor quality produce, bad cooking or flawed conception. Those meals are quite easy to review, you have such glaring mistakes staring you in the face, accurate judgments can be made quickly. What is less common, at least for me, is a meal that you just don’t ‘get’, food that is probably quite good and well made but you don’t like it. For me anything with kidneys is a great example, I find them really horrible, I’m not sure how people can stomach them, and if Paul Bocuse himself was cooking them for me I still wouldn’t like them. So when I come across food that might be quite good, but I don’t ‘get’, I struggle to draw any conclusions. Or, at least, accurate conclusions.

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Iberico Ham Carving School @SaltHouseTapas

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The other evening, we (Ant and I) were lucky enough to attend the first Brindisa Iberico Ham carving school at Salt House Tapas, which is probably my absolute favourite restaurant in Liverpool, well that and Puschka) hosted by the great staff at Salt House and by Mario Hiraldo Regalado, the Master Carver from Brindisa in London. Mario has been working for Brindisa for a couple of years but has been training for over 10 years in Iberico ham, he hails from the South West of Spain and there is nothing this man doesn’t know about spanish hams.

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Read this great post by The Girl With The Wooden Spoon, highlighting another great liverpool restaurant, Salt House Tapas. I really like this restaurant and it looks like it runs great special events, I'll certainly try and get down to the next ham night they run.

Great Value Italian, Paolo and Donato’s

I’ve written about fine dining before, but really in Liverpool it’s not something we are good at or, at least in the foreseeable future, will be any good at. Although I think we could sustain a top quality restaurant, it would have to be a well thought out project, getting the right balance between price and quality. What we do well is the mid priced restaurants, the good food without pretensions.

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Two ends of the culinary spectrum, dinning out in London

As a food blogger firmly encamped in the great city of Liverpool, I observe the culinary comings and goings of London with interest, they are a foresight of what might be making its way to North West sometime in the future. I do find my observations tinged with envy, ok tinged isn’t strong enough, the green-eyed monster seems to be clawing at my soul as a read about the latest round of openings and food bloggers favourite haunts. The food scene in London is arguable one of the best in the world, and a trip to our nations capital always involves me making meticulous plans of where to eat.

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