Flight of Fancy: Dom Pérignon Oenothèque
“Ladies and gentleman, you’ve entered the spaceship – get ready to shoot into orbit,” announces Richard Geoffroy, Dom Pérignon’s ebullient cellar master, to an audience of bemused wine writers.
Browsing: The Foodie
If You’re Game: Potted Rabbit
The Arb’s own Mrs Beeton, Angela Clutton, continues her tutelage on the game season, and…
The Jugged Hare
“‘First catch your hare’ is the famous, apocryphal statement that is often misattributed to Hannah Glasse as the beginning of her recipe for Jugged Hare in her legendary 19th century text on gastronomy – The Art of Cookery.”
It’s All In the Name: Bunnahabhain
Larry ventures to a secret location in Edinburgh one damp autumn afternoon for a tasting of a very special single malt, one of the finest in all of Scotland. You’d think he’d know how to pronounce it…
Food Meets Art: Valeria Napoleone
Douglas Blyde meets Valeria Napoleone; cook, collector, curator and food lover, and is led through her home for a tour of her collection and a saunter through her new book…
Dukes Hotel & the Vesper Martini
You might have noticed that Bond is doing the rounds, and if you were keeping…
Death by Burrito
The rain hammers down in cruel sheets as I wander the cold, hard streets looking for the elusive dive bar. I’m using Googlemaps, but the technology seems to be playing wicked games
Notes on Game & A Recipe for a Wintry Venison and Juniper Braise
So did you catch it? Shoot it? Pluck it? Draw it? Interrogate your butcher about…
Royal China Club
“The lobsters are the most generously proportioned I’ve ever seen. They sit in huge tanks in the centre of the restaurant, beautiful and languid and blissfully unaware that there’s a small Chinese man coming towards them with a portable net in his right hand…”
Locanda dell’Isola Comacina
“There’s that moment after dessert when the restaurant owner wheels out a flaming pan of liquor coffee in order to stop anyone dying from a medieval curse…” All in an evening’s dining, if you’re on an island in the middle of Lake Como.
The Game Season
“It’s autumn and I am writing about food for The Arb. Two facts which mean I am pretty much morally obliged to do a piece about cooking and eating game…” The Arbuturian’s very own Mrs Beeton, Angela Clutton, gives us a few facts and tips on autumnal fare…
The Skyfall
“Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon’s, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina…