Posts Tagged ‘Kitchen’

And They Call It Kubbe Love

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

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I Tweeted about these bad boys a few weeks ago when I discovered that they’d been re-stocked by my lovely Scandinavian friends down the road from work, but such is my love for the Peanott Kubbe that I thought they deserved a post all of their own.

I rarely get evangelical or geeky about chocolate bars, but having discovered the Peanott Kubbe last year I can make an exception. Hailing from Norway, and roughly translated as ‘Peanut Log’, it’s a chocolate, peanut and toffee bar with a difference.

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Local Hero #6 Benitos Hat

Wednesday, November 18th, 2009

Looking back at the blog I just realised that I’ve yet to post about a local hero in the UK, which is odd seeing as that’s where I live. I guess I just got a bit excited about my recent travels in the US. So lets get local, UK style.

My day job takes me in to central London each day, and whilst I’m spoiled for choice for places to get lunch, I tire of giving the Prets and Eats my cash every day.  That being the case, a year or so ago my old work partner and I set ourselves on a bit of a mission to find some alternatives to the standard fayre, the results of which you can find on this map. I’ll be posting about some of the names on the list in the not too distant future, but first up I want to talk about Benito’s Hat.

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