Category Archives: Food

Brooklyn Bowling London O2

Brooklyn bowl is a fantastic place to spend a Friday night; located inside the Greenwich O2 (Millenium Dome innit) it has a great restaurant, a couple of seriously stacked bars (cheap prices for central London!) and a stage for love gigs. Oh, and a bowling alley!

It’s very authentic American redneck theme and friendly atmosphere absolutely warmed me right down to my cockles.

The chicken wire ‘walls’ add a certain ‘Blues Brothers’ flavour to the restaurant; whilst enjoying my meal, I could easily hear the dulcet tones of Tom Copson, support act for Hayseed Dixie (more of that later).

I really liked how you could hear the performance due to the open-plan structure to the venue. Rawhide!

As for the food, wow! What a menu! I heartily recommend the half rack of ribs; certainly the best that I’ve had outside the States!!! Watching the plates come out for other people was torture, everything looked fucking great.

The bowling is £14.95 for half an hour, maximum of 8 people on a lane. So it’d be dirt cheap if you split a nights bowling with a decent group of folks.

The lanes are stuffed with very comfy leather armchairs and sit right next to the live stage, so you could avoid paying for a gig ticket and just bowl whilst listening to a band knock out their tuned.

I was impressed by the bar products, American beers like Samuel Adams, a Brooklyn Lager and the largest collection of bourbon I’ve seen since I visited a Mormon Elders house in Utah.

So folks, y’all have a good time now! Y’hear!

Bourbon Steak – Four Seasons Hotel – Washington D.C.

If you like good steak, you simply have to go to Bourbon Steak which is inside the Four Seasons Hotel in Georgetown, Washington D.C.

At $59 just for the meat, the steak is hideously overpriced; but it’s so beautiful in the restaurant and the service staff make you feel like royalty.

They brought out some complimentary fries, all with different seasoning and dips; another complimentary dip included some hot rolls infused with truffle oil. Utterly scrumptious.

With my steak, I had a double cooked potato (sounds worse than it was believe me!) and a potato and cheese gratin.

The steak was cooked to perfection, I could honestly have eaten it twice (it was a smaller steak that I got at Clydes!); washed down with a couple of glasses of Riesling ($11), a fantastic meal. Yes, I know you should have red wine with steak, but that’s just me innit!

Burger Tap And Shake – Washington D.C.

Burger Tap and Shake makes a mean sandwich!

They served me up a juicy quarter pounder with blue cheese and mushrooms in a sauce. It was utterly delicious; don’t think I’ve had a better burger in years!

The restaurant can be found on 2200 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20037; if you happen to be visiting D.C., I’d heartily recommend a visit!

Badolina revisited

So impressed with my food yesterday; I returned today for a second helping!!!

Today I opted for the boneless middle eastern chicken thigh, served in a container without the pitta.

The container is an extra quid compared to the pitta option; but You get more salad, humus and meat.

Delicious, look at the chilli sauce! Bring that shit on!

Badolina – Bishopsgate, London

I’m on a course today up in town; just so happened to find ‘Badolina’ off of Bishopsgate (where it meets Middlesex Street) during my lunchbreak.

Badolina is a Middle Eastern take away shop; or, as they call them south of the River Thames, a fancy kebab shop.

That’s not to take anything away from Badolina; the good quality meat (minced lamb ‘patties’) was charcoal grilled to perfection and stuffed into a very large round pitta bread (white or brown available) with some really delicious salad.

£5.95 was a fair price too? Considering you need to get a mortgage up here just to buy a cup of coffee!

Mulligatawny Curry

I am rather chuffed!

After much consideration, I decided to pour a mulligatawny soup (found in Waitrose, by Duchy Originals) over some Veetee basmati microwave rice!

EUREKA!!! Healthy lunchtime curry, ready in 3 minutes should you have a microwave. Pukka.

I had the soup a couple of weeks ago and pondered at the time that the soup was of a nice thick consistency. It’s almost like daal and rice?

Very, very, very nice! Could do with some chillies though 😉

Chicken Gordon Blimey!

Here’s my idea of a low cost and tasty working lunch which can be sourced from all good High streets (even Croydon); perfect for when you can’t be arsed to cook in the evening!

4 spicy chicken wings from the rotisserie in Waitrose for £1.25.
A portion of McDonald’s fries 99p.
Reduced cheesy coleslaw from waitrose, £1.49.

In fact, the chicken is THAT good, I bought 8 wings instead of 4! What?? I’m a growing lad!

All in all, less than a sandwich and a coffee from Pret-entious A Manger.

Mega Mexway Burrito

It’s my first day back at work after my holiday; I feel like Vladimir Putin ‘s armpit after he’s been wrestling with bears and gypsies, out in the Gobi desert.

I cleared my backlog of emails, ploughed through a load of work and eventually came to realise that it was 2pm; I also realised that I was quite delirious from not having eaten yet today.

My situation was thus. It’s raining heavily in Croydon, I only have my old bikers jacket and I’m somewhat ill prepared for the downpour! Should I go out for food or stay inside in the warmth?

Do I sit here, trippily thinking about Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, or should I pop to Mexway and purchase a very, very large Burrito?

Well, there was clearly only one winner. Mexway.

On the way down to the shop, I was fortunate enough to witness some of the new Croydon College ~~thugs~~ students getting soaked by the buses as they drove through the huge puddles. 🙂 The universe likes me today!

The nice Spanish man must have thought that I was a Macho Latino ‘Rambo’ (an African market stalls holder called me Rambo in Fuerteventura) because of my tan and leather jacket; he packed the Burrito with so much food that he was barely able to roll it up!

Fantastic-o!

It’s so wide that it’s bigger than my bite radius (no gay jokes please) and is the biggest Burrito I’ve even eaten by a country mile (how big is a country mile anyway???).

It’s proper phat, innit bruv?

Kevs home made pizza!

Nice, innit?!

Shortbread Easter Penis

I personally think the story of Jesus’s resurrection over Easter is the original cock and bull story; Sam Kinison parodied the whole thing perfectly with his ‘Zombie Christ’ skit, so I will refrain from adding my own jokes on this one!

It is also a tradition to bake foodstuffs over Easter; quite what that has to do with coming back from the dead I don’t know??

Saying that, I’ve been rescued from a hangover ‘death’ by a full English breakfast before when I’ve been half baked. Maybe that’s where it comes from?

I loved baking as a kid, so I thought I’d indulge in a spot over the weekend; Waitrose do a fun ‘ready dough’ range in their baking section, so I grabbed the ‘shortbread biscuit starfish’ set for £2.

Yes, I know it’s cheating, but bite me?

After making a dozen or so starfish, I decided to make an Easter Penis using the leftover dough and icing.

Here’s the result! I’m sure you’ll all agree that I was inspired with the chocolate flake bits for pubic hair and icing jizz?

The Antikrish

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