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Andrew Kay enjoys the Jamie Oliver experience at Recipease

Best known for eating out, amongst my chums, I am equally well known for eating in. I’ve been cooking since I was knee high to a cooker and the lure of the kitchen is often greater than my willpower. I will often be found making what I would call an ‘urgent’ casserole or an ‘essential’ pie when really I have far more pressing things to do.

As a consequence, I have, over the years, developed certain culinary skills but never so many that I would turn down the opportunity to learn some more. So when the call came to attend classes at Recipease in Western Road I jumped at the chance.

Recipease is part of the Jamie Oliver empire. I like Jamie Oliver; his matter of fact approach to food appeals to me; the insistence that anyone can do it if they give it a try rings true, and his campaigning has done much good over the last few years, especially when it comes to school dinners.
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Andrew Kay enjoys a massively satisfying lunch at The Dyke Pub & Kitchen

Lunch on weekdays should by rights be a light affair, or so I am told. Well yah boo sucks to all that. When needs must… and needs certainly did, I was happy to drift up to The Dyke in Dyke Road for a mid-week blow out, and my colleague Ms P was happy to tag along.

I’d always thought that The Dyke looked rather dark and gloomy, but after a makeover by the team who gave us The Connaught, it’s bright and breezy. It’s spacious, too, and we had a lovely table where the afternoon sun came spilling in. Read the rest of this article »

Eat out in style without breaking the bank with Brighton & Hove Restaurant Week

Brace yourselves for a week of great food at bargain prices in this – the first ever Brighton & Hove Restaurant Week.
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Andrew Kay goes back to school, cookery school that is, at The Gallivant in Camber Sands

Every year now the pretty town of Rye stages a Scallop Festival. The scallops of Rye bay are delicious and the festival is devised to promote and celebrate them with local chefs and businesses joining in the whole jolly business. A few weeks before the start I received a message from a writer friend inviting me to go along and take part in a one-day cookery course at the stylish new hotel at Camber Sands, The Gallivant. It required a very early start from Brighton but wild horses couldn’t have stopped me attending – well, they could had they been on the menu rather than the scallops. Read the rest of this article »