Last Saturday, I went to the Borough market in London. I hadn’t been for a while and I stopped to a middle-east restaurant, Arabica, where I wouldn’t go if I were you. So disappointing. I had to resend the uncooked chicken, the waiter explained that it’s because they are corn-fed that we can eat it […]

They are everywhere on market stalls… The green vegetables. Courgettes, asparagus, cabbage, cress, spring onion, spinach… Young and tender vegetables, with or without cooking. There is this Italian atmosphere in London in April, everybody smiles, the sun is out, the temperature is higher…We just need good quality and simple food with a lot of olive […]

After weeks of negotiaton and organization with my girlfriends, I finally saved the date to go and celebrate Alice’s 150’ birthday. Alice in wonderland is my big, very close friend. My manager used to call me Alice saying that I follow rabbit in the hole too often and my sister always tells me that I […]

On peut le dire, le Printemps est là ! On ne met plus le chauffage, les fenêtres restent ouvertes, le soleil entre et brille sur ma table où je prends mon petit-déjeuner… Le Printemps c’est ça aussi, ces petites choses de la vie de tous les jours qui nous font sourire et apprécier ce que […]

We can tell now that Spring is here ! We don’t put the heating on anymore, the windows stay open, the sun come through and shine on my table where I have breakfast. Spring is also that, little things of everyday life that make us smile and be thankful for what we have. Before strawberries […]

‘Brèves de comptoir’ are authentic quotations collected from everyday life and particularly gossips at the bistro. Absurd borders on humour or poetry, news and sometimes philosophy. Mine are of course food oriented, a concentrate of what feed my life, what I swallow every day, what I read, hear, try, taste… In London and the world… […]