The Potato Man, by post
food4c_AdminSteve Whitehead’s stall is a legend at Parliament Hill market on Saturday and Marylebone on Sunday with more than 20…
Read MoreWenlock Edge, pioneer of pork and charcuterie
Peter Themans has pioneered the idea of British charcuterie from his farm in Shropshire. The farms used to supply supermarkets…
Read MoreFortnum & Mason, ice cream parlour
The doyenne. It even has its own web site. Here it was that the knickerbocker glory was first introduced to…
Read MoreMarine Ices, a short history of (possibly) the oldest ice cream parlour, RIP
Sadly Marine Ices in its newer incanation folded in August, the same week that another London icon I Camisa shuttered…
Read MoreGelupo, the negroni granita
Jakob Kennedy’s restaurant Boca di Lupo is better known but he runs his own rival gelato parlour to the big…
Read MoreVenchi, chocolate as Gucci
From Baton Rouge to Milan, Hong Kong to Sydney, Hampstead to Carnaby Street, Venchi is primarily a chocolatier with an…
Read MoreBadiani 1932, gelato from Florence
Idilio Badiani opened his first gelateria, patisserie and coffee shop in Florence in the 1960s although he had been making…
Read MoreAmorino, a French love affair with Italy
Amorino has 25 shops in London, they are listed here, 42 in Paris, 13 in the south of France, three…
Read MoreTaiyakiya, manga ice cream
In the bubble tea alley of Newport Court, this is hardcore manga street food meats ice cream meets waffles. Taiyakiya…
Read MoreFortnum & Mason, grocer par excellence (and on the way up again)
VISITORS seem to know more about Fortnum than locals. But slowly, politely you might say, the grand old dame of…
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