Carmen Godley
It was an amazing experience dining at Amazonico Restaurant in Mayfair. The food was fantastic and they are all BBQ style and you can taste the smokiness from the charcoal. It is a Latin America style restaurant. The atmosphere is lively with very good service and they have live music too. 🍾 🎉
Food is unique, we had frog legs and lots of seafood. It is quite expensive, but it is a nice restaurant to have a special celebration. I enjoyed the restaurant and I will definitely return. 🍾 🥥 🌴
I heard so much about Louie Restaurant in Covent Garden since it opened not long ago. I decided to give it a go and see what the food and atmosphere is like.
The menu is mainly seafood with some meats and vegetarian options. The price is quite expensive: the starter is from £14-20 and the main is from £23-55 and the dessert is from £10 onwards
I took my friend there and we had a special king prawn starter, which was amazing. It has lots of flavours, crunchy texture on the topping but also spicy. The main course I chose Seafood Combo. There were king prawn, monfish and sausages with a very rich sauce. It was full of flavours and tasty. Loved it. We had a bottle of wine and 2 cocktails. They were all good 🍷 🍸.
We went to the third-floor bar and terrace for more drinks. We tried to take pictures but was told off not allowed. It apparently has lots of celebrities and Royal members here. It had DJ there to play music and the atmosphere was amazing. This is a perfect place for a date or something special you would like to treat your friends.
During the lockdown, I saw that the Connaught Hotel had opened a patisserie shop and it looked amazing. 🤩 I bought some of their cakes for John’s birthday in March and I just had to return again (and again). 😆
The most beautiful 🇫🇷, sensational cakes and tarts you need to try! I personally think it is one of the top patisseries shops in London.
We had tried all of them already including the savoury cakes! Flaky pastry with perfect meat and flavours. They are all gorgeous! Our favourite cakes are the coconut 🥥 and pineapple 🍍 and the Tonka chocolate 🍫 cart 🍰. The Tonka one has a slight hint of lime and coconut inside – it is so scrumptious! Let’s have champagnes and cakes 🍰 🧁 🍾 🥂
Parsons is one of my favourite seafood restaurants in Covent Garden. It is a very small restaurant and make sure you book a table first. I took all my friends there and all of them loved it.
Their menu changes everyday depends on the seasons. Chefs come out different ideas to cook the seafood. The quality of the seafood is fantastic and the prices are so reasonable. I am a seafood lover and was so happy to return. They have outside tables (about 6 tables with heaters) If you haven’t tried Parson, make sure you pay a visit.
28th March was my birthday 🎉🎂, and we were still in Lockdown. I had my second birthdays in Lockdown😔 Sadly I couldn’t celebrate with my besties, but it doesn’t matter – I rather we are getting out of Covid soon.
Birthday is all about sharing love and happiness!😄🍾️ I home-made some Italian food and had a fun day with family! 😄
Ingredients:
Cooking:
You can put and create anything that you like to eat for a tiny canapés. The total time was around 30m.
Enjoy them with a glass of champagne 🍾 🥂!
Soutine Restuarant
As many friends know me, I love dining out! 🍷🥩🐌 It is unusual this year that dining out becomes a really precious thing to do with your friends during COVID 19. Luckily we have managed to dine in with my close friends during early October.
Soutine located in St Johns Wood High Street and only few minutes walk from our place. It is wonderful French decor with classic french food without travelling to Paris.
My favourite dishes are always classic escargots, chicken liver pate, scallops (seasonal) and very tasty steak fillets with champagne or wine. The desserts on the other side, were a bit disappointed but cheese set was fabulous.
Eating out with friends are amazing!🎉 You get to catch up with them and enjoy tasty yummy food. Hope we can be back to normal soon and we have to support our hospitality industry!🌍
Ingredients:
Methods: (Easy – cooking time 20-30 minutes)
Enjoy! 🦞🍜
I found a brilliant Japanese ramen recipe from justonecookbook Chef Namiko and if you love Japanese food as much as I do. Please check her website, she is brilliant. Easy cook recipe and tasty authentic Japanese food. This ramen broth recipe is from her, but I got some twist to do my topping, is a vegetarian broth base, and you could top up any toppings as you wish. Namiko’s Kimchi Vegetarian Ramen is the base broth of this recipe.
Ingredients:
Methods followed by Namiko san here.
Topping:
I simply put a knob of butter, fried the chopped garlic, until it changed into golden colour, then put the clean – washed prawn into the frying pan and season with salt and pepper about 2-3 minutes, when all the prawn has changed into pink colour, not more grey colour. Then it is done. While the frying pan is still hot, put the spinach on the side, it will soak up all the prawn juice and only take 1-2 minutes, it will be done. Easy!
For the perfect ramen egg is here. Or quicker version I boiled the Clarence Court Burford Free range Eggs for 6 minutes, then put into ice bath for few minutes, then put all the eggs into a soy bath (soy, sugar, water) like Namiko did. It always works!
You need to do the eggs one night before, or at least 3-4 hours. The recipe is around 20-30 minutes maximum.
It is our weekly menu when the weather is cold. Perfect for a bowl of ramen.🍜
2020 is a strange year. With global Covid-19 outbreak, we were all forced to put a pause in our life for few months. It has been very hard for everyone. We can’t see our family and friends; we can’t travel and have to work from home and home schooling for our children. It has been very tough for all business and especially all entertainment sectors.
We spent indoor for 3 months when everything was shut apart from essential shops. However, there are many positive sides during lockdown.We created many new hobbits, like baking, cooking, being an artist, a bartender, doing work out at home etc. It feels like forever, but I hope that everything will be slowly return back to normal.
On early July, the eased lockdown has announced. Two of my best friends and I decided to walk through Regents Park to our first restaurant L’entrecote in Marylebone with our kids. We were super excited and it felt so great, and it never felt so happy just to do normal things as we take for granted.
Steak was perfect with their signature sauce and crispy fries, service was as good as before. Comfort and no fuss lunch with kids. Loved it every moment. 🥩🍟🍷
Hope everyone stays safe and healthy.