LONDON

Michelin Starred Restaurants, London by Jane Broughton
Planning the foodie pilgrimage to London started months before departure. My weakness has always been the meticulous planning of any event as if it were a military campaign. And I have to confess that in recent years, even children’s birthday parties have been easy targets for my obsession with colour-coded cupcakes. So this long anticipated trip, to eat at a few deliberately chosen London restaurants (plus a side trip to Paris thrown in for good measure), was no exception ... read more

PLETTENBERG BAY, SOUTH AFRICA

Fu.shi, Fusion Cuisine, Plettenberg Bay by Michelle Snaddon
‘The only ‘f’ word you can use in Plett is Fu.shi!’ laughed co-owner Noelle Bolton one morning over breakfast at the restaurant. We needed coffee: the power was down and we’d come to the restaurant for a fix (sensibly, it is well prepared for the idiosyncracies of the local power supply) but we landed up having a hilarious (and much more healthy) breakfast together. Spirits were high - it was the day after the South Africans had won the Rugby World Cup and the national flag was still hanging off the town’s dolphin statue, green and gold balloons were stoically bobbing about in gardens and things were generally rather quiet after the celebratory shenanigans of the night before ... read more

PLANET FOOD

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