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Sorry I've been terrible for updating this blog lately - but of course I won't let you down with the important stuff, namely discounts! :)
Taste of London / British Airways have their usual discounts - 2 for 1 on standard tickets or £40 for the VIP tickets which include a recipe book. After adding booking/transaction fees the ticket price is just over £43 each.
http://www.britishairways.com/travel/taste-of-london-2012/public/en_gb?DM1_Mkt=UK&DM1_Channel=AFF&DM1_Campaign=AO&DM1_Site=AffiliateWindow&utm_source=AffiliateWindow&utm_medium=Affiliate&utm_campaign=AffiliateWindow&awc=2601_1332853609_45dc3f2ef27a6c9ed2a7c4c0b8494377
Enjoy my lovelies!
Happy eating,
Kitsune
Showing posts with label Foodie Event. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Foodie Event. Show all posts
Thursday, 5 April 2012
Friday, 9 December 2011
The Chocolate Festival
Just a quick one to let you know The Chocolate Festival is back at Southbank from today until Sunday. No ticket required.
Pretty much every high end chocolate brand will have a stall there, and there is usually some chocolate themed activities and sculptures.
Here are some pics from last year (Easter time):
Happy eating,
Kitsune
Pretty much every high end chocolate brand will have a stall there, and there is usually some chocolate themed activities and sculptures.
Here are some pics from last year (Easter time):
Happy eating,
Kitsune
Wednesday, 9 November 2011
Taste of Christmas 2 for 1 offer
I haven't been to this particular food fest before, but I have heard good things about it.
Two standard tickets are £22 if you quote 'TASTECARD' when you book on http://www.tasteofchristmas.com/
Happy eating,
Kitsune
Two standard tickets are £22 if you quote 'TASTECARD' when you book on http://www.tasteofchristmas.com/
Happy eating,
Kitsune
Monday, 17 October 2011
Experimental Food Society
Apologies, but I have at least one more post before writing about normal food again!
This one is about the Experimental Food Society. I wish I knew more about it - it seems to be a combination of food and art, two loves of mine. However its not entirely clear if all of what is created is actually meant to be eaten!
They have an Experimental Food Society Spectacular this weekend starting Friday 21st October at the Truman Brewery. I might pop by the exhibition (£5) but alas my budget at the moment doesn't stretch to attend the banquet (£60) which I'm sure will look and taste fantabulous.
If someone does go, be sure to take lots of pics and report back! :)
Happy eating,
Kitsune
Update (28/10/2011):
So, I did end up going on the Saturday for the exhibition! It didn't have quite as much to see as I had expected (I think I went at the wrong time since there was a lot more in the papers than I remember seeing!) but what was there was pretty good. I didn't get to taste any of it since I doubt the artists (/chefs?) would have appreciated bite marks on their works of art so I just took pics instead:
This one is about the Experimental Food Society. I wish I knew more about it - it seems to be a combination of food and art, two loves of mine. However its not entirely clear if all of what is created is actually meant to be eaten!
They have an Experimental Food Society Spectacular this weekend starting Friday 21st October at the Truman Brewery. I might pop by the exhibition (£5) but alas my budget at the moment doesn't stretch to attend the banquet (£60) which I'm sure will look and taste fantabulous.
If someone does go, be sure to take lots of pics and report back! :)
Happy eating,
Kitsune
Update (28/10/2011):
So, I did end up going on the Saturday for the exhibition! It didn't have quite as much to see as I had expected (I think I went at the wrong time since there was a lot more in the papers than I remember seeing!) but what was there was pretty good. I didn't get to taste any of it since I doubt the artists (/chefs?) would have appreciated bite marks on their works of art so I just took pics instead:
Pretty, edible flowers by Rosalind Miller
Rosalind Miller hard at work
Gothic Chocolate House by Paul Wayne Gregory
Scott O'Hara with his sugar eagle
Look closely in between the two halves - didn't notice that at the time!!!
A fellow food enthusiast poking the Dodo cake by Michelle Wibowo to see its its real
I'd be quite cosy in this! No mortgage required, just a sweet tooth.
Chocolate Train by Carl Warner, photographer - he also had a collection of his 'foodscapes' at the exhibition
My favourite - a Curly Wurly Eiffel Tower by Paul Baker
Teeny tiny cupcakes :)
I'm not actually sure what this is - but it was fascinating none the less!
Hand-shaped baked goods
Other highlights that I didn't get to take a picture of included edible clothes, camel milk ice cream, medicinal marshmallows, and baked goods even teenier than the cupcakes pictured above - they were baked in quails eggs!
I wonder how the banquet was?!
Happy eating,
Kitsune
Tuesday, 3 May 2011
Real Food Festival
Just a quick one to mention that the Real Food Festival is on in Earls Court from this Thursday 5th of May - Sunday 8th of May.
"About Realfood
If you love food you've come to the right place. Real Food is all about great tasting, sustainably and ethically produced food and we're aiming to connect you to the most extraordinary food experiences you will find anywhere.
From large scale annual food festivals to regular produce markets, with the best of British street food thrown in, you can explore the very best that this nation has to offer."
For today only, Groupon is offering 60% off, so standard entry tickets are for £5.40, or VIP tickets for £16.
Happy eating,
Kitsune
Thursday, 3 March 2011
Early Bird Offer for Taste of London 2011
I've just received an email from Taste of London.
This year it is being held between 16th - 19th June in Regents Park.
There are often many various discount codes and promotions for the event, and this is the first of the year I've come across: 2 standard tickets for £32 (£20 off) or individual VIP tickets for £45 (£20 off per ticket). The offer is valid until Friday 11th March.
Already drooling in anticipation!
Happy eating,
Kitsune
This year it is being held between 16th - 19th June in Regents Park.
There are often many various discount codes and promotions for the event, and this is the first of the year I've come across: 2 standard tickets for £32 (£20 off) or individual VIP tickets for £45 (£20 off per ticket). The offer is valid until Friday 11th March.
Already drooling in anticipation!
Happy eating,
Kitsune
Saturday, 19 June 2010
Taste of London 2010
Hmm, did I say that the food & wine sellers at Taste of London were not so generous these days? Looks like I'll have to eat my words (if I can fit another thing in!) after I thoroughly abused their abundant generosity this year! I pretty much had to waddle home.....
Well, this year I was much better for taking pictures before greedily stuffing my face - enjoy!:
Well, this year I was much better for taking pictures before greedily stuffing my face - enjoy!:
Good Natured - The lovely lady with red wellies totally spoiled us........and all for free, no crowns needed! Guess they live up to their name! 
Pictured:
Cherry tomato with pesto
Cherry tomato with basil
Strawberries with clotted cream
Scones with raspberry jam, clotted cream and strawberries
One of my favourite stands - I would definitely buy ingredients from here, everything was very fresh & amazing!
Gauchos - grilling & prep...
Gauchos - Bife de chorizo - Argentine Black Angus sirloin, humitas and chimichurri. The steak was as succulent as I always expect from Gauchos, and the humitas which I'd never tried before was lovely - some type of creamed sweetcorn wrapped in corn husk.
The hungry mob!
Whole Foods were offering lovely nibbles
Gin Mare - the guy demonstrating was giving shots with an odd addition - the first tub on the left had olive paste, which he put into the solution in the second tub - after a few seconds it formed a skin and then he put it in the water in the third tub to let it set........
Gin Mare - the odd shot. The gin had quite a kick!! The olive paste had an odd texture - the ball burst in your mouth but you could feel the firm skin it had formed in the solution. Pity I'm not a gin person!
Trinity - chef preparing asparagus and tiny quail eggs on the grill. To the side you can see pheasants eggs, quail eggs and some of the other dishes on offer.....compared to the suckling pig dish they offered, the pigs trotters weren't nearly so high in demand even though they were the 'icon dish', so the guy pictured was pretty much shouting about pigs trotters all day! 
I was one of few who ordered:
Trinity - Pigs trotters on toasted pain polaine, fried quail eggs, sauce gribiche and crackling. My first time trying pigs trotters. They sound odd but to be honest as an Irish person I should have had them before! One of my favourite dishes of the day. The crackling made very satisfying crunching sounds!
Sake no Hana - Quail with sansho pepper. The quail was cooked differently to how I'd ever had it before, and it was very good - the skin was crispy, the meat tender and even the bed of spring onions was devoured hungrily.
Beas Bloomsbury - cupcakes & meringues! I didn't try anything at the time, but it was a very tempting stand. Apparently they do afternoon tea there - must try it sometime.
Beas Bloomsbury
Macsween - Haggis! Very yummy, especially with that dollop of chutney on top
Fino - Cochifrito suckling pig. The meat pretty much fell off the bone, it was so tender.
Asia de Cuba - Jumbo sea scallop with sweet & sour plantains and habanero corn crema. I always seem to get scallops at Taste of London. This did not disappoint! Juicy.
Chapel Downs - actually from a wine stand [I visited the vineyard last year! ], but they looked too good to resist!Oysters with lemon and a red wine, vinegar and shallot drizzle. The drizzle was amazing!
I must say that food-wise, I didn't have one thing here that I didn't thoroughly enjoy. The drinks were another matter altogether - but since they were all samples, I really can't complain.
Till next year!
Happy eating,
Kitsune
*****Update:
I've received an email about a Taste of London promo where some of the restaurants exhibiting have Taste of London offers, starting from £15: http://www.toptable.com/en-gb/feature/?id=2309
Also, those pigs trotters I had at the Trinity stand were apparently voted 'Best in Taste' for the show! The conchifrito suckling pig I had from Fino came second.
Till next year!
Happy eating,
Kitsune
*****Update:
I've received an email about a Taste of London promo where some of the restaurants exhibiting have Taste of London offers, starting from £15: http://www.toptable.com/en-gb/feature/?id=2309
Also, those pigs trotters I had at the Trinity stand were apparently voted 'Best in Taste' for the show! The conchifrito suckling pig I had from Fino came second.
Saturday, 22 May 2010
Taste of London - get your tickets soon!
Around this time of year every year, my stomach is rumbling constantly - regardless of how much food I have in it - all in anticipation of one event where I pretty much stuff my face for an entire day with a variety of different food: Taste of London.
I first read about it in Tatler in 2005. They basically described it as 30 of London's best restaurants in Somerset House for a day and they gave a code you could use to upgrade your ticket to VIP so you could also get a glass of champagne on arrival. They had me at hello!
Upon arrival we were given our champagne and crowns - no, not the royal kind, but the 'event currency' kind! How it works is this - with each of the tickets we purchased we were given a book of 40 crowns which we could use to get food from each of the stalls that the restaurants set up. Each of the restaurants charged a different amount of crowns for their meals, depending on ingredients and portion sizes, but each was around 4-8 crowns.
It's all a bit of a blur now but I can recall eating food from pretty much every continent and meat of all kinds. No-one worried about the food 'complimenting' each other. Very generous wine sellers were handing out samples of their wares and everyone was lapping it up. All in all it was a fantastic, hedonistic day in such beautiful surroundings.
Since then, I have only missed one year - it did take wild horses for that to happen.
Of course, over the years small things have changed. Due to the popularity of the event more space was required and the venue was changed to Regent's Park. The number of restaurants has increased to around 40. The wine sellers are not quite so generous with their wares. The average dish is now around 9 crowns. Small changes, some good, some bad.
However, the important stuff is still the same - lots of good food, a huge variety, so many people with the same enthusiasm for food, and lots of free nibbles. What more could we ask for?
Words can only convey so much, so here are a few pics from last year / the year before:
A chef from Nipa Thai, Lancaster Hotel prepares a soft-shell crab salad for the hungry mob
Haggis!
Some of the delights on offer:
Roast Aberdeen angus beef fillet with tarragon mousse,
and rhubarb & custard ice-cream crumble
Fruit Carvings
A variety of English sausages
Come rain or shine, we will still stuff our faces!
Don't forget to get your tickets soon - this year the dates are 17th - 20th June. For anyone reading this who is not in London - do not despair! Other places where they run this event include: Auckland, Amsterdam, Birmingham, Cape Town, Dubai, Dublin, Edinburgh, Jo'burg, Melbourne and Sydney.
*rumble*
Happy eating,
Kitsune
I first read about it in Tatler in 2005. They basically described it as 30 of London's best restaurants in Somerset House for a day and they gave a code you could use to upgrade your ticket to VIP so you could also get a glass of champagne on arrival. They had me at hello!
Upon arrival we were given our champagne and crowns - no, not the royal kind, but the 'event currency' kind! How it works is this - with each of the tickets we purchased we were given a book of 40 crowns which we could use to get food from each of the stalls that the restaurants set up. Each of the restaurants charged a different amount of crowns for their meals, depending on ingredients and portion sizes, but each was around 4-8 crowns.
It's all a bit of a blur now but I can recall eating food from pretty much every continent and meat of all kinds. No-one worried about the food 'complimenting' each other. Very generous wine sellers were handing out samples of their wares and everyone was lapping it up. All in all it was a fantastic, hedonistic day in such beautiful surroundings.
Since then, I have only missed one year - it did take wild horses for that to happen.
Of course, over the years small things have changed. Due to the popularity of the event more space was required and the venue was changed to Regent's Park. The number of restaurants has increased to around 40. The wine sellers are not quite so generous with their wares. The average dish is now around 9 crowns. Small changes, some good, some bad.
However, the important stuff is still the same - lots of good food, a huge variety, so many people with the same enthusiasm for food, and lots of free nibbles. What more could we ask for?
Words can only convey so much, so here are a few pics from last year / the year before:
A chef from Nipa Thai, Lancaster Hotel prepares a soft-shell crab salad for the hungry mob
Haggis!
Some of the delights on offer:Roast Aberdeen angus beef fillet with tarragon mousse,
and rhubarb & custard ice-cream crumble
Fruit Carvings
A variety of English sausages
Come rain or shine, we will still stuff our faces!Don't forget to get your tickets soon - this year the dates are 17th - 20th June. For anyone reading this who is not in London - do not despair! Other places where they run this event include: Auckland, Amsterdam, Birmingham, Cape Town, Dubai, Dublin, Edinburgh, Jo'burg, Melbourne and Sydney.
*rumble*
Happy eating,
Kitsune
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