The Edward Starr Charitable Trust is to launch a fundraiser called ‘Gallery’s Cooking for Starrs’, based on Gordon Ramsay’s Hell’s Kitchen with City College’s Gallery Restaurant. It will feature two teams undertaking a cook-off to see who will impress the guest diners… Read more →
Ooh la la! Ah, the lost art of doing lunch. That slightly naughty and often clandestine meeting over food that made the business world such a joy back in the ’80s and ’90s. In the world of mainstream publishing it was not… Read more →
A local wine buff is warming up for the launch of a new venture for wine lovers. Jonny Gibson is opening Sussex Wine School in May 2012, offering introductory evening tastings and eight-week courses for residents in Sussex and Kent. The school… Read more →
Gourmets et gourmands Try getting the best chefs from the city and around to all sit down at the same table at the same time and you would find yourself with a logistical nightmare on your hands. After all, shouldn’t they all… Read more →
Perfect pigeon Open a menu in Greece, any menu, and the content will be much the same, the same applies in Morocco and Tunisia, they all do pretty much the same dishes to differing degrees of success. It happens with many national… Read more →
Latest 7 celebrates one of the traditions that makes Britain great As Jack Buchanan sang “Oh, the factories may be roaring, With a boom-a-lacka, zoom-a-lacka, wee, But there isn’t any roar when the clock strikes four, Everything stops for tea”. Okay, maybe… Read more →
Thrills & frills When entertaining visitors from abroad, Sussex has plenty to offer, perhaps too much. My guest Chef Audrey Eussen certainly thought so as we wheeled her round the county tasting good food. I knew that we would need lunch somewhere… Read more →
I never had much interest in train sets as a kid, Lego was my thing but I do have one enduring memory of steam trains, yes, I am that old. It is of me standing on the platform at St Helen’s Junction… Read more →
This year’s Brighton & Hove Food and Drink Festival Spring Harvest programme saw the launch of a new project. International Chef Exchange was an idea that Andrew Kay conceived whilst enjoying a very fine meal at the Beaumont Hotel in Maastricht. Here… Read more →
Going Dutch To see a project take shape as International Chef Exchange has, is an exhilarating experience. I could not have wished for more from all parties involved, from the participating hotels, Drakes of Brighton and Beaumont Hotel Maastricht, to the Netherlands… Read more →
