Showing posts with label Wahaca. Show all posts
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Friday, 26 November 2010

Emily's Birthday Weekend - Wahaca!




So Emily made it down to London to celebrate her birthday in a suitable foody faces style. Arriving in Euston and having only two bananas all day in preparation we headed straight to Wahaca for dinner.

Wahaca was founded by Thomasina Miers who is a former Materchef champ and author of the beautiful photographed Mexican Food Made Simple.

As always we had to queue (it has a no booking policy) but as it was only 7 o'clock the wait was only 20 minutes so we had a very yummy tequila mojito and some nachos with guacamole in the bar area to pass the time.



When we sat down we decided to go for lots of small plates to share and sample a bit of everything. We had:
• Tacos with Grilled British steak
• Tacos with Pork pibil
• Tostadas with Chicken guajillo
• Quesadillas with Chorizo & potato
• Taquitos with Savoy and pasilla
• Sides of green rice and spicy slaw

I love the steak tacos and cheesy quesadilla, where as emily would definitely have the goats cheese covered crispy taquitos again with the spicy slaw.


It was all really yummy and even though we ordered one or two plates too many we still found room for dessert! Emily had Churros y chocolate, a Mexican doughnut with a hot spicy chocolate sauce and I went for vanilla ice-cream with toasted pumpkin seeds and drizzled with caramel “cajeta” sauce.

It all makes my mouth water just thinking about it!

Wednesday, 24 November 2010

Jade Gets Grilled...

Biggest food loves?
Red Velvet Cupcakes.
Thai Green Curry and Jasmine Rice.
Steak (it has to be rare).


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Biggest food loathings?
Celery and Mustard – yuk!




Best meal you cook?
Butternut squash and pancetta risotto, it’s a Jamie Oliver recipe and takes time but is well worth the effort! I also make a mean apple crumble.

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The kitchen gadget you couldn't live without?
Dualit 88810 hand blender– great for cakes and soups, plus it is pretty! But I quite like the look of this garlic crusher... 



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Best childhood food memory?
All the things I used to eat at my nan’s house such as fried bread (in lard), smoked haddock for breakfast and mash potato mountains with ketchup! But my mom was a great cook, chilli con carne, lasagne, dim sum – I was not a fussy eater!

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Describe the most amazing meal you've ever eaten?
This is really tricky. I have been to some lovely restaurants (most of the time through work) such as Hakkasan, The Wapping Project, Blanche House and Roast to name a few but its always the people who make it for me! In a little restaurant called Max’s in Kinsale, Ireland I had the best ever mussels for starter and salmon for my main, really fresh and simply cooked whilst on the holiday with family. Then the next was a place called CafĂ© Bern in Amsterdam where me and the boyfriend had our first ever fondue, the restaurant was small and rustic, the staff friendly and so helpful and food really tasty.

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Favourite TV chef?
Simon Rimmer



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Favourite regularly visited affordable restaurant?
Wahaca



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The restaurant you'd love to visit?


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