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On 8th May 2010 poet, journalist and food artist Michelle Rambler opened Rambling Restaurant’s doors for the first time in South America. Back in March this year, on a quest to discover more about her Latino roots, Michelle upped sticks and set up camp in Buenos Aires. She has been artist in residence at Argentine artist Lucrecia Urbano’s studio in San Ferdando, a leafy suburb north of the city which is home to chocolate factories, farms and one of Buenos Aires’ largest villas miserias, La Cava. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Gabriela Bejerman, giant salad toss, gingerbread houses, JC Sullivan, Juan Salzano, La Cava, Lucrecia Urbano, Michelle Madsen, Michelle Rambler, mini English breakfast, poetry, Rambling Restaurant, Rambling Tongue, secret supperclub
A few weeks ago I went to my first Hub Feast in Kings Cross. For anyone unfamiliar with the Hub, it’s a virtual and physical network designed to “inspire and support imaginative and enterprising initiatives for a better world.” We’re talking social, cultural and environmental challenges here. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: banana cupcakes with peanut butter cream cheese frosting, guerrilla food, Islington, Kings Cross, lemon curd meringue roulade, pop-up restaurants, sustainability, The Hub
The consistently surprising Bompas & Parr have set up a Parliamentary Waffle House just off Carnaby Street, where you can vote with your mouth, right up to and including election night. It’s a place for wearing sailor hats… Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: bompas & parr, Carnaby Street, Conservative, election, jelly, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Parliamentary Waffle House
Photography by Mark.
On Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th April we took on our biggest Ramble yet, transforming a Soho office into a secret cabaret den. Artist Ali O’Malley was responsible for designing this rambling interpretation of Pigalle’s infamous Moulin Rouge, making great use of satin, peacock feathers, chicken wire, fairy lights, paint and tea.
The office belongs to the word of mouth people at 1000 heads, who are some of the most up-for-a-challenge corset-lovers I’ve ever met! Not only did they de-wire all their phones and computers, shift desks and manage to carry on as a functioning office throughout all the disruption, but also proved their abilities in handling all sorts of obscure requests, including being able to reach the ceiling, procure frilly pants, become waiters for the weekend and rescue our rambling sanity.
Post Saturday-night exhaustion meets pre-Sunday evening calm… Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: 1000 Heads, Abi Palmer, absinthe, beef bourguignon, cabaret, can-can dancing, cornichons, erotic poetry, Great Windmill Street, Liqueurs de France, pop-up restaurant, Rambling Restaurant, red velvet layer cake, rillettes, secret supperclub, Soho, The Moulin Rouge Ramble
So, following on from Thursday’s haggis hunting post, the three lambs’ plucks continued to boil and change in colour and consistency. The lungs kept bobbing to the top of the pan like jostling whales. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Burns' Night, haggis, heart, lamb's pluck, liver, lungs, offal, Rambling Restaurant, Robert Burns, secret supperclubs
I’ve spent a good few hours this week hunting for the elusive wee rampant Scottish beastie that is the haggis. It’s Burns’ night on Monday and we need a few of them to stab and recite poetry over.
Lamb’s pluck is not that easy to get hold of. After trying a range of butchers, all of whom seemed to think that making my own haggis was a bit insane and needed a good few days to get hold of any, I tried the excellent Marky Market. He rang me, as requested, from Smithfield meat market at 4am on Wednesday to tell me what was on offer. I’ve been having Delicatessen-style dreams about sheep organs ever since.
A few hours later he arrived with a bag of three lambs’ plucks, delivered straight to my door and up four flights of stairs. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Burns' Night, haggis, heart, lamb's pluck, liver, lungs, Marky Market, offal, Rambling Restaurant, Robert Burns, secret supperclubs
In March I got excited by and involved in promoting the Big Lunch, but not quite as involved as art student Stephanie above, who is wearing a cabbage as a hat.
And went to a very strange party populated by green people, lions and long pepper at the Lord of Bath’s house.
I also followed a trail of flowers and cryptic clues to The Sea Flower, an ultra-secret Dalston supper club at the home of marvellous mixologist Grant. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Dalston, G20 London summit, home restaurant, lawyers, Longleat, Lord of Bath, March 2009, recession, secret supper club, The Big Lunch, The Sea Flower
This December Rambling Restaurant was hugely excited to be invited to run a pop-up café at the Somerset House Super Christmas Design Fair (Emma and Mei are deep in concentration in the photo above, but believe me, they were bubbling inside). Next to the skating rink, in the maze of rooms that makes up the East Wing, stalls were were manned by established designers and students from the Royal College of Art and Camberwell College. There were all sorts of original Christmas presents to be had, from the sublime to the silly, including hip flasks for two; chocolate battleships; i-pod cuckoo clocks; newsprint wallets; moustache brooches and my favourite – the share-faces-with-your-friends-and-relatives mirror. This is a hard one to explain, but hilarious and at least an hour of fun.
We teamed up with some students from RCA who were working on food design projects. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: banana cardomom & poppy seed cake, Camberwell College of Art, chocolate brownies, cinnamon buns, cream tea, December 2009, edible cups, hot spiced cider, Kate Weatherall, Mad And Sad, mulled cider, orange coriander and polenta cake, pop-up cafe, Rambling Restaurant, RCA, rice crisy treats, Royal College of Art, Somerset House, Sugar & Spice, Super Christmas Design Fair
Having spent the best part of the last six months cooking and partying with Californian Bostonian Mei of Family Styles, I found myself being invited to my first ever Thanksgiving dinner last weekend. Today Mei is in Boston, and no doubt just about to do it all again there – good luck!
So, last Saturday Mei and her flatmate (or is it room mate?) Chris asked if they could borrow my enormous stock pot to deep fry a turkey… I was appalled, intrigued and excited. Unfortunately, due to the disgusting weather that afternoon, the ritual deep frying of the bird was abandoned – it was way too wet and windy to start abseiling a turkey into a pot of boiling fat on the terrace, and the idea of oil being spattered all over the kitchen wasn’t pleasant. However, there was enough other bizarre food preparation going on to keep me popping into the kitchen to point and stare. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: bean casserole, biscuits, candied yam, deep fried turkey, deviled eggs, food baby, marie rose sauce, pretzels, scones, snakebite and black, Thanksgiving
So, it has taken me this long to recover from the blaggertinis and delicious Portuguese wine (from Casa Leal, called Quinta Lagoalva De Cima) from the Blaggers’ Banquet the Sunday before last.
When I and a dozen or so other bloggers dribbled into the Hawksmoor that morning there were mountains of vegetables waiting to be julienned for decoration, shaved into crisps, oiled up and pureed down. It was somewhat daunting. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: Abel & Cole, Barbers 1833 Vintage Chedder, blaggers' banquet, blaggertinis, bompas & parr, Bramley & Gage, Brock Hall Farm, canapes, Casa Leal, Chapel Down, Chegworth Valley, Donald Russell, Easy Tasty Magic, gougeres, Halen Mon, Laverstoke Park, monkfish tartare, Peter's Yard, Pong, Portuguese wine, Quinta Lagoalva De Cima, Rambling Restaurant, Riverford Organic, Sainsburys So Organic, Sipsmith, St John Restaurant, the Hawksmoor, Trethowans Dairy, Trish Deseine
