For Queen and Curry
With both the Olympics and the Queen’s Jubilee this year, food trends agency thefoodpeople is predicting a rise in demand for classic British dishes on menus. Following the Queen’s coronation sixty years ago however, it was Indian food that increased in popularity. At the time and even now this can most clearly be seen in the creation of that classic British dish coronation chicken. Coronation chicken was invented by Constance Spry (a florist who also helped with floral arrangements on the day of the coronation) for a luncheon hosted by the Queen following the...
Sloppy vs. Straight Edge
The burger hunter spins the wheel on what defines a good burger. In many reviews the importance of a burger buns structural integrity is put into question. This has nothing to do with the taste of such said item, but how it is going to handle half a pound of sweating beef, squelches of sauces, maverick mayos, and malevolent mustards. You can call in the lettuce for support, hope that a cross hatch of bacon slices will keep things in place – blast that bun if it falls apart. Well I am here to say, fuck it I want a sloppy burger. Sure, sometimes you want a tight ass bun...
New Music This Week: 09APR12
So the Easter bank holiday came and went again under a big black rain cloud, but cheer up, here are our highlights of new music this week. The Track: Ladyhawke – Sunday Drive This is the second single to be taken from Pip Brown’s forthcoming album Anxiety, due out in May. The song premiered on Zane Lowe’s Radio 1 show last night. While Ladyhawke’s new guitar-heavy pop sound is definitely catchy, it seems to lack the punch of her synth-laden debut. What do you think, should Pip have stuck with the electro sound or is she moving with the times by...Review: Pitt Cue Co.
Are you a queue addict? Do you need to know about the latest line to join. Do you wonder where it will take you? I’ll give you an address, 1 Newburgh Street. There is an awesome line there, that starts around five thirty tonight and every other night for the foreseeable future (except Sundays). The wonderful whiff of barbecue gives it away, this is Pitt Cue Co. version 2. At the end of the line or the beginning, whichever way you see it, is the start of a meal that feels like a performance, you buy drinks in plastic cups from the pub nearby while you wait, you chat...Burgers & Wine
The burger hunter hasn’t put down any words for quite a few weeks now. Although many cheeseburgers, bacon doubles and all sorts of combos have been devoured, a new place hasn’t arisen to boast about. In the meantime, I’ve been thinking about changing up the humble beer that usually accompanies my burger munching habits for another beverage, one of the grape variety. Drop the beer buster and pick up the wine. Well the folks at Hawksmoor have thrown us a bone. Using two of their exemplary burgers as an example we can try to figure out what to choose. With...
Olympic Breakfast
You may be baffled about what Hackney Wick has to offer other than a hunking great hub of artistic residents, but with the small matter of this summer’s sporting event a stone’s throw away, Hackney Wick’s diamonds in the industrial rough are soon to take centre stage, and shining brightest is The Counter Café. Housed in the open gallery and creative studios Stour Space, The Counter Café is split across two levels and perched snugly beside the Regent’s canal. Downstairs the mix of theatre style seats and wooden interior is a rough-around-the-edges relaxed space,...
And the dead will rise… Again
Zombies are dead, that much is clear, but the metaphor seems to have been rotting for some time with them. Adam Richmond asks why “We had crazy zombies raping human females making hybrid zombiesand stuff, it was just nasty.” Matthijs van Heijningen Jr – director of the still mercifully unreleased The Thing remake* – on the planned Army of the Dead film. He’s to helm the sequel to Zack Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead remake, A sequel to a remake, by a director of a remake. The horror. It should come as no surprise that Snyder’s sticky fingers are all over this...
