By Liz Tarry
For those of you unfamiliar with Wahaca, its awesome Mexican street food concept, which currently has restaurants in Canary Wharf, Covent Garden, Soho and White City, is branching out East, taking its 5th site and award winning food to Europe’s largest and newest marketplace, Westfield Stratford City. Plus with a 6th site due to open in Bluewater in October, Wahaca …
By Rob Pickard
You may recall our Bibendum EC1 tasting we staged earlier in the year in the heart of London. Our annual celebration of all things vinous, we brought together around 1000 of our wines, alongside all sorts of weird and wonderful activities for the hords of tasters to enjoy.
One of the highlights from the day was our …
by Gareth Groves
We love a bit of Dragons’ Den at B Times: the moody looks, the great ideas, the tension and, of course, Evan’s suits. So we thought we’d do a little bit of a homage at our Bibendum Ec1 tasting today.
We’ve lined up three producers – Alisios Estate from Brazil, Stone Barn from California and Argento from Argentina – …
by Gareth Groves
Remember this?
And this?
Then you will remember our Wahaca Chilli Competition and if you cast you mind back to July, you will recall we announced the finalists.
Now, after many months of debate and deliberation, we can reveal that the winner is……
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 Gareth Groves
It has been three months since the last chilli update and the (relatively) good weather the UK has enjoyed since April has been perfect for chilli growing. A few of our contenders have fallen by the wayside but four of our growers have powered on into the final. Their task (having qualified by growing an actual real Wahaca chilli from …
It has been a long, cold lonely winter for our Wahaca Chilli plants. But now the snow has melted, I thought it was time to find out how they were getting on. The last blog update was way back in the depths of January, three months on here are a few of the leading contenders…
First up is Henry, who thinks it is his high brow marketing chat that is making the difference……
It’s time for an update on the Wahaca Chilli Growing Competition. Way back in September Wahaca challenged Bibendumites to grow some chillies and then use them to devise a devilish recipe to impress chef Thomasina Miers. It hass been a while since the last update and the cold winter weather and Christmas break have taken their toll on some of the competitors….
Liz forgot to find a Guardian Angel to care for her plant …
Just a quick one as many of you have asked where we’re at with the Wahaca/Bibendum Chilli growing challenge. As the cold weather has set in, life has become tougher for the fledgling heat bombs. Their needs have changed, they might need more space and warmth, and the quality of the light just ain’t what it was.
Despite all that the plants in this little …
In the spirit of true chilli growing competition it’s time to compare, contrast and deride if necessary. None of that “it’s all about the taking part” tosh around here. Bibendum staff are in it to win it…
So here are some picture that have been sent in. Yours not here? Then please send it in and we’ll feature it. Have you got any special advice for our avid growers…leave a comment below…
Just found a few tips …
