By Rob Pickard
Following on from last week’s post, The Vineyards of Europe – In Pictures, where I posted a few images we had dug up following a sort out of our photo library here in the Marketing department. Here is another selection of great photos, but this time from a few of our New World producers.
Accumulated over the years, these are just …
By Rob Pickard
To mark the launch of Wahaca’s new restaurant on Wardour Street, Soho. The Mexican market food specialists are offering all you creative folk out there the chance to design their staff T-Shirts, and in return the winner will recieve a Mexican food lover’s dream prize – free food at their Soho restaurant for 12 months!
Wahaca are looking for fun, stylish designs that …
By Kirstie Papworth
It was Simon Farr (Co-founder of Bibendum and masters its wine strategy) who decided we were going to spend a weekend in Mexico. Tim (Wine buyer and a fresh MW) and I, knackered by jet lag and a week of meetings, tried to persuade him otherwise, but we failed miserably. Just as well, really, or we’d never have discovered the beautiful Baja California, …
by Gal Zohar
A mexican bottle
Luigi is exactly the type of sommelier we like. He’s young, he knows his wines and is very down to earth. His list is one that could only exist in the crazy metropolis of London. One of the top picks at his Caravaggio restaurant is the Estapor Venir Mezcla Tinto 2007 from the Valle de …
(thanks to Eat like a Girl for this photo…you never even saw the heat coming…)
When it comes to foodie thrills, it is hard to beat that slow but steady build up of heat on your taste buds that can only come from a full chilli onslaught. It builds and it builds and then bang, it rages and you think “why the hell…?!” …
Mexican food in the UK used to be the gastronomic equivalent of cheap, dodgy porn. It would start off enticing, colourful and full of TexMex promise, but would end up leaving you feeling a bit cheap and used. Too much melted cheese and rich sauces. Salt strewn everywhere and a brick sitting in your stomach.
But not any longer. The ‘Demolition Man’ vision of Taco Bell has also been …
We’ve reached a crucial stage in the build up (why build up, but count down? Oh well…) to the UK’s largest wine event in the calendar, the London International Wine fair (LIWF), next week at Excel. The integrity of our pants is under threat from the sheer anticipation. Seriously! If we can negotiate this tricky stage then it will be plain sailing from then on won’t it…?
But why …
