Cafe Beignet - New Orleans

Beignet is a dessert from New Orleans and according to the internet there is only one place to get them, Cafe Beignet.

Southern Candymakers - New Orleans

It's praline, but not like in the middle of those chocolates. It's New Orleans praline, and this place is supposedly the best place to buy them.

El Paraiso - San Antonio

Maria has, for a while, fancied a Paletas - or a popsicle in American. We have heard about a few good places in Texas and El Paraiso was one of them.

Zumbo - Sydney

After years of watching Masterchef Australia, we were desperate to get at least a little piece of ZUMBO! So while we were in Sydney, we found our chance at The Star.

Xoi Yen and coffee creme caramel

For tonight's dinner, we decided to try xoi yen, sticky rice topped with all sorts of goodies. We followed the lonely planet's recommendation and saw two restaurants with the same name next to each other. We went for the busy one, where we had to climb two floors to find a table. We squeezed onto tiny plastic stools and looked through a rather faded menu to choose what we wanted. I went for Chinese sausage and BBQ pork belly and Anthony tried his with Chinese sausage and a fried egg. Both were delicious!

Food tour - Hanoi

What better way to start our foodie holiday in Vietnam than with a street food tour of Hanoi! We met our guide Tu at our hotel and set off on a three hour culinary adventure. Our first stop was a tiny family run restaurant down a dark alley where we sampled delicious spicy beef noodles, crabcakes and fishcakes and eel noodles, all washed down with a cold Hanoi beer. It was really nice to sit down with Tu and to ask him our many questions about Vietnamese food, culture and traditions.

Turkish place on Nizami

After 10 weeks of school, the last week was really dragging. So to celebrate hump day (Wednesday to those not in the know) we decided to venture out with Patti and Dave to a Turkish place off Fountain Square that Dave said has just been refurbished.

We arrived just after 6 and Dave was disappointed that the serving area didn't have something that he said looked quite good. But we found a place to sit and had a look at the vast menu. After speaking to a waiter with very good English, we decided to have a wonder around the serving area pointing at what looked good.

Viajante - Take 2

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The Corner Room - Take 2

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Santa Maria - Ealing

As what would be a final goodbye to Ben (and his very lovely girlfriend Huishan) we decided to find what was supposed to be the best restaurant in Ealing and one of the best Pizza's in London. Seems like they were speaking the truth. 

Dinner at Dinner - Heston Blumen-fail.

When you speak about the world's most influential chefs, a name that comes up time and time again is Heston Blumenthal. We have all seen his shows, read his books and heard rave reviews about his amazing restaurants. So for Anthony's birthday we decided to go to Dinner at the Mandarin Oriental and taste Heston's cooking for ourselves. 

Brown Bread Ice Cream

Brown bread ice cream was one of my favourite desserts as a child. I have vivid memories of mixing the ingredients, putting them into blue ice cream containers and stirring every hours to make sure that the ice cream didn't become too crystallised. We recently bought an ice cream maker so it was an obvious choice for our first experiment.