Wine Step To It
Stomper. The ancient art of ‘pigeage’ is celebrated in the name of this wine, the ‘little’ referring to the fact only small children could fit into the top of one…
Follow @bittenwritten
Wine Terrific Terlan
Cantina Terlan have a formidable reputation for being one of the finest co-operative wineries in Italy (some would say, the world), and seeing any of their wines on a list…
Wine Value Buster
Sometimes a wine screams out ‘value’ so loudly that not ordering it when it’s on a restaurant list is something akin to vinous madness: why spend twice as much on…
Drunken Monkey
“Wild chimps caught boozing on 7% ABV ‘wine’”, shrieked the headline in The Guardian last year. As headlines go, that’s a corker. Noble Rot, Issue N10
I’ve Not Been Back
‘I forgot it was still open’ ‘I forgot to go back’ ‘I haven’t had a chance’ ‘Been doing the new places’ ‘I thought it wasn’t all that’ ‘I thought it…
Westerns Laundry
Full Spin Ahead When Primeur opened in a former garage on a quiet leafy street in Canonbury three years ago, a first thought came to mind: “Good luck chaps, this…
Wine Va-Va-Valtellina
On the Italian/Swiss border, nestled high up amongst the alps, the Perego family have tended their vines on the steep granite terraces of Valtellina since 1860 – the Nebbiolo grown…
Kirazu
Takoyaki Juggling Yuya Kikuchi worked at Mitsukoshi restaurant on lower Regent Street for four years after arriving in the UK in 2007, having previously honed his cooking skills in Japanese…
Novikov
How Deep Is Your Bling? Arkady Novikov. Russian Big Dog and owner of over forty restaurants in Russia. Two restaurants in one behemoth of a site off Berkeley Square…
