Ever since my Deep South Road Trip last autumn, I’ve been searching for soul food in Amsterdam. Or rather, since I haven’t really found any, I’ve been cooking a fair...
I’ve heard horror stories about Bar Italia. The meat-market atmosphere of the bar on a Friday night. The attitude of the waiting staff. The wrong orders being sent back time...
For what feels like about the hundredth time (but is probably only the fourth), I tried to go to steak restaurant Loetje last Friday. Given that they’ve just opened a...
You might have heard of Alanya, Turkey. It’s full of all-inclusive hotels, last-minute package deals and 18-year old kids getting trashed on free booze and ordering fish ‘n chips. But...
When my colleague asked me on Friday lunchtime what my plans were for the weekend, I told him I was going to Foodism. “What? Is that some kind of cult...
Try googling “Café-Restaurant Amsterdam” and all you get is – well – cafes and restaurants in Amsterdam. Like you’d expect. So why on earth you’d call your restaurant Amsterdam is...
While I’ve habitually always based my choice of after-dinner drinking establishment on which bar is closest to the restaurant I want to review, of late it’s come to be the...
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a post a new food trend: contrary to the 12-page menus that confound diners at many Asian restaurants and stuck-in-the-80s hotels, the next...
Have you ever done one of those quizzes that tells you which character in Friends you are? I’ve never actually tried it, but I don’t need to. I am Monica....
