Since the TableCrowd blog; Egalitie, Fraternity, And A Slice Of Cheddar: On London Burgers was published last week, I have made it my mission to take on 'The Devastator Burger' at Red Dog Saloon on Hoxton Square. I will be rallying some troops and encouraging them to join me on a Man Vs Food style challenge in the very near future - well, after a month or two of solid preparation and ...
Read MoreThe sandwich, as everyone knows, was popularised by a fat, corrupt, adulterous Etonian aristocrat in a wig who aspired to be able to stuff a light meal down his gullet and drunkenly gamble the night away at the Hellfire Club without ever having to pick up a fork or put down his hand of cards. In short, it’s a quintessentially British creation. At first glance it appears sensible, composed, and breathtakingly ...
Read MoreFirstly, let me say thank you to every one that attended. I understand that being involved, especially as a founder, in a start up in an incredibly time demanding occupation - but I think as the evening demonstrated, taking time away from the screen to sit down and chew the fat with fellow entrepreneurs is time well spent. The overriding success of the night, was the atmosphere of exchange, openness and ...
Read MoreLast week, we ran a table at the very new and very cool, DSTRKT. The venue is divided into a downstairs area with a restaurants and accompanying lounge bar and upstairs which holds a night club. The restaurant food is tapas style, and when we ordered, we were encouraged by the waiter to try the ‘taster menu’, a 12 mini-course banquet at £55 per head. Our group passed on that offer ...
Read MoreTableCrowd went on their travels over the Bank Holiday weekend. We were officially TableCrowd on Tour! First stop Dover, then over the channel to Calais for a drive up to a beautiful town in the east of Holland - Nijmegen. The town has been in existence for over 2000 years and it felt like it had plenty of stories to tell. It was a good three and a half hour journey ...
Read MoreLondon is home to some remarkable talent in the culinary world. For honest, no-nonsense British cuisine, you can't go wrong with Irish chef Richard Corrigan's humble, rural upbringing. His hearty portions of down-to-earth, home-inspired cooking are nothing short of delicious. Winner of MasterChef 2005, Thomasina Miers has brought Mexican market eating to the capital with fresh, innovative and delicious food. Marco Pierre White - the original celebrity chef – described as the Godfather ...
Read MoreThere were actually 11 of us not 12, and a more apt name for this table could have been called ‘cosmopolitan dining’ (the adjective not the cocktail, although quite a few of the latter were ordered). I shared the table with one fellow Brit, a French-Canadian lady, a guy from the Netherlands and also fellow diners originally from India, Hong Kong, New Zealand (whose avatar / caricature on TableCrowd was ...
Read MoreAnd gossip there was! Not so much wine however, as Chico Bandito offered happy hour cocktails all night for the senioritis, so Cosmo's and bellini's were a-flowing! There were a couple of no shows, but c'est la vie (and their loss) but a top crowd of girls did show. One lady worked in a boutique hotel (no shortage of gossip there, with stories of guests and fellow workers). Fresh off the ...
Read MoreTableCrowd were at V Festival on Saturday and what a scorching hot day to be out and about amongst the Chelmsford massive! Mr Blue Sky was out in force energising all the festival goers to laugh, love, dance, drink and of course - eat. Everyone needs their fuel for the day (especially if they were drinking in the sun) and, like many festival events, there were food outlets lining the field ...
Read MoreI attended my first Vegetarian Crowd dinner on Tuesday night at new-on-the-scene Vegetarian restaurant, The Gate, Islington. It’s long standing sister restaurant in Hammersmith was opened in 1989 by the Daniel’s Brothers, who have now introduced refined Indo-Iraqi Jewish cuisine to my local hood. I was joined by 10 other diners from TableCrowd, all vegetarians and/or vegans ranging from around mid 20s to mid 70s. The common theme was the food ...
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