Monthly Archives: May 2013
Antalya restaurant: Sauté prawns and spinach
Our conference is finished – Annie and I were shattered but we needed to eat before catching our separate trains. We started walking and stopped outside the Antalya Restaurant. A waitress gave us a table by the window. We started to relax. We had mint tea. We had some aubergine caviar and a spicey fresh […]
Busaba Eathai: Pandan chicken and sticky rice
I was at a conference. My colleague had gone back to her hotel, we re both waiting for other colleagues for dinner. I love wandering around London, I have a terrible sense of direction and I get lost all the time. (even with google map on my phone). Anyway I passed a Thai restaurant and […]
Chaophraya, Birmingham: Tom Yum, Massaman curry etc
When Sarah invited me to Chaophraya near the Bullring in Birmingham, I wasn’t too excited because I thought it was a buffet. But when I got there it soon became apparent that we were going A la Carte. I love sea food tom yum soup so I went for it while Sarah had the satay. […]
Steak at Hippopotamus, Strasbourg
It was lunch time and we did not have much time before meeting someone at Les Halles, the shopping centre in Strasbourg. It was wet and there was a chill in the air. The first restaurant, a Vietnamese restaurant we went to, we couldnt get in. So we settled for the Hippopotamus having had been […]
Le Dix, Strasbourg
I had the opportunity to go to Strasbourg for a short visit and when I arrived, it was pouring with rain so my friends, Phillipe and Maria Luisa and I just went next door to Le Dix, for dinner. I was staying at the Ibis Gare Central. I had the choucroute trois poissons which was […]
The Eclectic Gourmand 