World’s Best Snack – Contender #1
The sausage roll: one of gastronomy’s greatest inventions, the glories of which are so evident we need not highlight them here. [Read more...]
July 20th, 2010
Out to lunch at The Mount Street Deli
Set a stone’s throw from Mayfair institution, Scott’s, The Mount Street Deli opens its doors today. Peddling a range of specialist foods sourced from both Italy and the UK, the deli will also sell “to-go” dishes from a brace of Caprice Holdings’ eateries (think J Sheekey, Mark’s and Le Caprice). [Read more...]
May 27th, 2010
Food & Drink,Restaurants,Snacks
New balls please (preferably edible)
Let it never be said that Esquire has no love for novelty spherical snacks. Having already shared with the world our fondness for the chocolate scotch egg, it seems only proper that we pay tribute to Love All, the Wimbledon-inspired dessert that has been cooked up by Bjorn Van Der Horst at his Farringdon restaurant The Eastside Inn. [Read more...]
May 19th, 2010
Political scoop of the year?
Quite apart from our political leaders gurning, sorry, grinning from every platform possible, they have now managed to find their way onto that most innocent of objects, the ice cream tub. [Read more...]
April 21st, 2010
Top five Smiths snacks
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The scent of faux-bacon corn crisps wafting across the office has had Esquire’s collective saliva glands a-throbbing this afternoon. Can, we asked ourselves, the supremacy of Smiths snack products really be disputed? We put our heads together to come up with a definitive top five that says, ‘Most definitely not’… [Read more...]
March 16th, 2010
Say it with sausage this Easter
We can’t quite decide if this is the most brilliant thing we’ve ever seen — or the most disgusting. Yes it’s a scotch egg, but the egg white is vanilla ganache, the yolk is passion fruit ganache, the pork is chocolate marshmallow with puffed rice, and the breadcrumbs are grated chocolate. Still, nothing celebrates the resurrection of the Lord Jesus like a ball of fake sausage meat. [Read more...]
February 16th, 2010
Could this be the ultimate biscuit?
We weren’t familiar with the work of bakers Peyton & Byrne until we got our hands on this tin of Millionaire shortbreads. Crumbly shortcake, thick caramel, moist chocolate – even Masterchef’s Greg Wallace would be hard-pushed to find the right superlatives (his usual ‘sugary sweetness’ line definitely doesn’t do them justice). And with four stores in London, it probably won’t be the last of their products we try out. www.peytonandbyrne.com
November 4th, 2009
A sandwich we love
Not so much a sandwich as an event, the Chargrilled Breast of Chicken with spring onion chutney and sweet chilli sauce on a grilled cholla roll is one of the main reasons that Thanks for Frank’s has become Esquire’s Soho cafe of choice. A best-seller since Frank’s opened in May 1996, the sandwich saw Frank, the cafe’s inimitable proprietor, win this year’s London division of the British Sandwich Designer Competition. If you can elbow your way past Esquire staffers, you really should try one for yourself. £5.95, Fouberts Place, just off Carnaby Street
October 14th, 2009
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