
Author Archives: David Gerrie
Magnificent Il Porticciolo at The Cipriani
22/08/2022 .
Review: Harry’s Bar, Venice Italy
17/07/2022 .
David Gerrie meets owner Harry Cipriani at Harry’s Bar, the most famous watering hole in Venice.
Read the full story hereAlice’s Tea Party At The Franklin Hotel
25/06/2021 .
David Gerrie enjoys his own Mad Hatter’s tea party at The Franklin Hotel
Read the full story hereLegendary Wiltons Restaurant, London
27/08/2019 .
Wiltons Restaurant has made eight moves since starting as a shellfish-mongers in 1742 in London’s Haymarket – a plenty swanky address in recent centuries, but back then, just that – a market selling hay.
Read the full story hereTaste Of Andalucia Tour
03/09/2018 .
Potato salad – a Spanish regional speciality? Really?
Ask anyone to rattle off a few Spanish delicacies and the results will be fairly predictable – gazpacho, patatas bravas, tortilla, paella, boquerones and a preponderance of bull’s bits will all rate a mention.
Pizarro Restaurant
07/05/2018 .
One of the greatest culinary injustices of our times has been Spanish cuisine’s permanent “bridesmaid” relationship to its French equivalent. Oh sure, we all get along with tapas and foodies know only too well the major influences of three-star Iberian chefs such as Ferran Adria, Juan Mari Arzak and his daughter Elena, the Roca brothers and Eneko Atxa.
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