Alphabet Adventures: N is for Nepal – Great Nepalese

The problem with blogging less frequently is that I have got out of the habit of taking photographs of everything I eat (although that’s not usually an issue for my companions, who were never allowed to eat until I had snapped various dishes). So although Charlotte and Jo benefited from my lack of photography during […]

Alphabet Adventures – M is for Mauritius

Ever since I moved to this part of North London, which is home to well known Greek and Turkish restaurants, I have been intrigued by the Mauritian restaurant near Turnpike Lane called Le Chamarel. And what better time to give it a try, than when Jo and Charlotte want a new location for the latest […]

Alphabet Adventures – L is for Lebanese

Yes, we’re back, with another Alphabet Adventure!  It was hard enough for us to meet up when we were all just working, but adding kids into the equation for two of us means there is an additional layer of complexity when trying to find a suitable time to meet up. But we finally managed to […]

Alphabet Adventures – K is for Korean

When Jo, Charlotte and I started Alphabet Adventures there were no marriages or kids in our little triumvirate. Life has changed considerably in the last couple of years, and we’re taking bets that hopefully we’ll reach ‘Z’ by the time Henry, Charlotte’s eldest, starts university! So we’re up to K now, and decided on a […]

J is for Jamaica – The Rum Kitchen

When Jo and Charlotte suggested Jamaican food for our latest Alphabet Adventure, I knew I’d be stepping outside of my comfort zone. It’s a cuisine which has never particularly appealed to me, mainly because I am a coward when it comes to spices and don’t enjoy hot food. I had never tried jerk, rice and […]

I is for Israel – The Palomar

Of course for our Alphabet Adventure beginning with ‘I’, an Indian would have been an easy one, but we wanted to try something a bit different and I’d read some fantastic reviews of The Palomar, which describes itself as serving food from modern-day Jerusalem. Centrally  located for all of us in London, we were a […]

H is for Hawaii – Kua’Aina

I feel terrible about taking so long to write this post – when Charlotte, Jo and I went to Kua’Aina for our H instalment of Alphabet Adventures, Charlotte was barely pregnant with her second child (Evie is now a couple of months old!) and I didn’t have any notions of getting pregnant myself (I am […]

G is for Ghana – Sweet Handz

For our most recent Alphabet Adventure, the girls and decided to be brave and truly adventurous and try a cuisine which was unfamiliar to us all – Ghanaian food. We invited our honorary member Jane (who last joined us in Denmark) and booked a table at Sweet Handz in Holloway Road, North London. The restaurant was […]

F is for France – Cigalon

Oh yes, Alphabet Adventures is back. Charlotte’s lovely baby Henry is a year old now – wowsers – and she is back at work, making it a little bit easier for us all to meet up. Actually, we met up for our F meal in February, but I have only just found the time to write […]

E is for Ecuador – El Rincon Quiteno

Thanks to the recent arrival of Henry, Charlotte’s adorable little baby boy, we haven’t had much opportunity to move ahead with Alphabet Adventures. But Charlotte decided to make the best possible use of her maternity leave (during breaks from caring for Henry, of course!) by searching for a restaurant so that we could continue our adventures […]