{"id":8624,"date":"2015-11-20T20:32:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T20:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/?p=8624"},"modified":"2015-11-20T20:32:57","modified_gmt":"2015-11-20T20:32:57","slug":"taste-of-london-a-terrific-foodie-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/taste-of-london-a-terrific-foodie-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"Taste of London- a terrific foodie experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Taste of London- The Festive Edition is here this week at the beautiful Tobacco Docks. It was a lovely sunny day to visit today, although quite nippy, so the indoor location was perfect.<\/p>\n

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As usual , there were a lot of food stalls, and we started with a few wine tastings and then started off our culinary adventure . \"20151120-P1150002\" ( My philosophy exactly)<\/p>\n

We started off tasting ( and buying, of course! ) some\u00a0 really fancy cheese, wines and champagnes.<\/p>\n

I was really bowled over by this ‘ Made in London’ cheese stall and ended up buying some some soft cheese that I though would go very well with our sandwiches and some Camembert that was to die for.<\/p>\n

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Then we went to this really lovely stall Drury and Alldis<\/a> and tasted the most fabulous Vinegars – Raspberry vinegar- that even has the colour of Raspberries. I ended up buying a few vinegars- Truffle, Lemon and Raspberry for myself and a few bottles to gift.<\/p>\n

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Lunch started off with a fabulous Venison burger from Chef Todiwala’s Cafe Spice Namaste.<\/p>\n

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I must say Venison never tasted so good.\u00a0 I am still drooling over the taste- perfectly spiced, perfectly cooked. No flashy spices, and\u00a0 melt-in-the-mouth delicious.<\/p>\n

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I am a great fan of Chef Todiwala’s cooking and he truly has perfected the art of cooking, bringing the best of Indian cooking to the British world.<\/p>\n

We had several other things- Duck burgers, tikka wraps, sliders, wine, champagne.<\/p>\n

The food was good. And the ambience beautiful.<\/p>\n

As I’d got there around 12, when there wasn’t too much crowd, and got to sample a lot of delicious stuff as well.<\/p>\n

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Asda was displaying its best festive food. I got to watch a cooking demonstration by Asda’s chef.<\/p>\n

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She was demonstrating some really good festive recipes.<\/p>\n

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We also got to sample some really good dessert from Asda. In particular, I liked the delicious, really boozy Christmas Pudding Fig & Brandy Parcel with Cinnamon Sugar & Winter Berry and Prosecco Cheese, <\/strong>presented beautifully in a cigar shaped stick,\u00a0 <\/strong>a fitting ending to our culinary adventure.<\/p>\n

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So if you do go there, I have some recommendations for you.<\/p>\n

DO NOT and I repeat DO NOT miss the Venison burgers at Cafe Spice Namaste. I am still drooling.<\/p>\n

Do pay a visit to the Blackwood’s Cheese Company stall- they have the most fabulous cheese. I am guilty of having spent a lot of money there.<\/p>\n

And finally – do visit Drury and Aldis’ stall for fine vinegar and Oils. They have this really cool concept of split bottles- 3 250 ml bottles that nest into each other. You can choose oils and vinegars\u00a0 of your choice and they stack\u00a0 into 1 bottle and look beautiful especially because they have different colours. So it looks as if there is one\u00a0 bottle with 3 layers of colours. And what’s even better is that they also sell refills in plastic bottles- for whenever you need to top up. Smart eh?<\/p>\n

Their Raspberry Vinegar is truly out of this world. I would highly recommend that. I bought Lemon flavored olive oil, truffle oil and Raspberry vinegar, and then half an hour later trooped in again to buy some more as gifts!<\/p>\n

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After all what is better than the gift of food?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Taste of London- The Festive Edition is here this week at the beautiful Tobacco Docks. It was a lovely sunny day to visit today, although quite nippy, so the indoor location was perfect. As usual , there were a lot of food stalls, and we started with a few wine tastings and then started off […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8624"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8643,"href":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8624\/revisions\/8643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vaish.sengupta.net\/of-cloves-and-capers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}