Classic Risottos of Venice & Veneto No one does risotto like the Venetians – and a few favourites are the classic risottos of Venice & Veneto. Eat The World’s Best Risottos On My Small-Group Food & Wine Tour Of Venice & Veneto Venetians combine their local vialone nano rice with whatever seasonal produce is at […]
Best Restaurants in Edinburgh Edinburgh is a city of contrasts: the medieval Old Town of narrow wynds and closes and the Georgian New Town of sweeping crescents … Discover Edinburgh’s Best Restaurants & Bars on my Edinburgh Food Tour! … the Royal Mile packed with tourist shops (and tourists) and the quiet back streets of […]
Best Pubs in Edinburgh Edinburgh’s New Town hides some of its best secrets in the basement. Tucked beneath the city’s grand Georgian townhouses, the best pubs in Edinburgh are cosy, dimly-lit rooms of exposed stone, pressed metal ceilings and well-worn wood. Discover Edinburgh’s Best Pubs & Restaurants on my Edinburgh Food Tour! There’s cask ale […]
Best Restaurants in Glasgow Glasgow is one of the UK’s best restaurant cities – and ‘People Make Glasgow’ is much more than a slogan. Glasgow is without a doubt Scotland’s friendliest city; some of my most vivid memories of my father’s hometown relate to its people. Discover Glasgow’s Best Restaurants & Bars on my Glasgow […]
Edinburgh Food Lovers’ Guide Edinburgh, Scotland’s capital, is one of Europe’s great food cities — and one of the world’s most beautiful cities to explore on foot. Discover Edinburgh’s Best Eats & Drinks on my Edinburgh Food Tour! Split between the medieval Old Town of closes and wynds and the Georgian New Town of sweeping […]
Best Restaurants in Venice Sant’Erasmo, in the Venetian lagoon between Murano and Burano, is the vegetable garden of Venice. It’s also home to Osti in Orto (‘innkeepers in the garden’), an exciting initiative by 19 Venetian restaurateurs growing their own produce. Join my small-group Venice & Veneto Food & Wine Tour! Not surprisingly, they also […]
Best Bars In Bologna What Italians call a ‘bar’ is generally both a café and somewhere to buy alcohol. Many are also licenced as tabacchi, so conveniently sell bus tickets, stamps and phone cards too. Join my Northern Italian Food & Wine Tour Ending in Bologna! Whether you want a little nip of grappa in […]
London For Food Lovers Samuel Johnson famously said: “When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can afford.” Join me on a Food & Wine Adventure soon! I suspect he’s right. But what if you don’t have a lifetime to devote to London? […]
Glasgow Food Lovers’ Guide The name Glasgow comes from Gaelic for ‘dear green place’. Perhaps not the first thing that comes to mind when we talk of a city famous for its locomotive and shipbuilding industries, and which still seems perversely proud of its somewhat gritty, working-class reputation. Discover Glasgow’s Best Eats & Drinks with […]
Matera For Food Lovers I spent a week roving all over this World Heritage-listed city in 2009, discovering the local Lucanian cuisine on my personal Matera food tour. Matera was still off the tourist trail back then, though it’s been doubling as Jerusalem in films since the early ‘60s. Explore Matera with me on a […]