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Can I eat 70 oysters for breakfast…? Happy new year !! I’m back at Wright brothers seafood restaurant (Battersea branch) for their £1 oyster brunch deal. Every saturday and sunday (not bank holidays) between 9-11.45am you can buy £1 a pop oysters… as well as Mon-Fri from 3-6pm!! . . . . #London #londonlife #oysters #wrightbrothers #battersea #oyster #oysterbar

Oysters for £2.04 a pop in Mayfair 🦪 👀 This deal is on every Saturday from 12 pm until 7 pm at Sexy Fish. It’s called the Oyster Seduction menu and you can choose the - usually prohibitively expensive - Gillardeau oysters for a rather curious but very affordable £2.04 per bivalve mollusc. these oysters are sweeter, meat and a lot creamier than the standard jersey rock oyster, (which tend to feature in oyster happy hours) and are smaller and leaner. Invite #London #londonlife #oysters #oystergirl #sexyfish #gillardeau

oyster girl is back 🦪

It’s tiiiiiiiiime! for German Christmas salads weird german salads for christmas sweetcorn salad with clementines in a curry mayo sauce herring salad with raw onions and apples Standard potato salad + bockwurst with loads of mustard #christmas #christmasfood #germanchristmas #froheweihnachten #maissalat #germanfood #deutschesessen #deutscheküche #weihnachten

I am German and it is my duty to review all the German restaurants in London. Today I’m visiting German gymnasium (with my German mother) to review their Christmas goose. You can order the goose (which comes with red cabbage, a bread dumpling, and green cabbage) for £39, or for £10 more you can have a three course meal of potato soup, goose and Apfelstrudel. A 3 course German meal for under £50!! Das mögen wir. GG is located in Kings Cross and the festive goose will be running throughout the festive season. (Invite) #germangymnasium #London #londonlife #deutschesessen #germanfood #germancuisine

We put real candles on our Christmas tree and this is how we do it without burning the house down 1. Put candles on branches where there’s nothing above them 2. Special candle holders that clip to the tree and keep the candle stable 3. Keep the candles away from curtains or anything flammable 4. Only bring the tree in on the 23rd so it’s fresh and not going to go up in flames. We only light the tree for 5 days and spray it every day to keep it damp 5. Always have someone in the room when the tree is lit 6. Don’t let unpredictable pets near the tree this isn’t me telling you to do it, btw. My family has done this for years and have generations of practise… pls don’t try this at home, burn your house down and pin the blame on this video haha #christmas #weihnachten #weihnachtsbaum #christmastree

Deutsche #pickles Taste Test von Edeka #gurken #gurkenfreunde🥒 #picklesarelife #tastetest

The first time I ever had an oyster was when my mother ate one when she was pregnant with me. And this is the first time we’re eating oysters together since that day. We’re about 7 minutes into our meal when my mother hits me with a ‘I would never usually order oysters if I go to a restaurant’ What????? My love for oysters is so vast, a newspaper article christened me ‘oyster girl’. Anyway, questions of parentage aside, today we’re at Bentleys Oyster bar and grill which confidently bills itself as Mayfairs best restaurant. We’re here to eat oysters. (INVITE) A quick oyster masterclass - there are 2 types of oysters - rock and native. Rock oysters. These are now the most common oyster in the UK. They originally came from Japanese waters, which is where their other name - the Pacific oyster - comes from. It takes around 3 years for them to grow to an edible size and they are available all year round. Native oysters are native to our waters. The natives take longer to grow to an edible size, about five years and have a flat shell. Traditionally they’re only available to eat in a month with the letter R in it, so predominantly the winter months, when the water is cooler. I quite like native oysters. They have a strong taste, are rather metallic and have a long mouth feel. If oysters aren’t your thing, Bentleys also does an amazing turbot with langoustine sauce and lobster with garlic, lemon and almond butter. Price wise - yes it’s expensive, you’re in zone one, the beating heart of the capital. You’re paying a premium for the location, but the quality of the food and service are both phenomenal. It’s rare nowadays to experience waiters who takes their craft so seriously, and whose priority is to make you feel special and looked after, and that is the type of service you get here. It’s clear that a lot of thought and love has gone into the flavour of each dish and it’s a restaurant by Richard Corrigan, so of course it has! In a sea of overly hyped and overpriced Mayfair restaurants, Bentleys is definitely one of the best (if not THE best!) #bentleys #oysters #London #londonlife #londonfood #mayfair

wir freuen uns immer auf gehacktes und Gurken #gurken #pickles #germanfood #deutschesessen

An emo retrospective exhibition at the @Barbican Centre - it’s free but only on until 15th January 2025. The exhibition is called I’m not OK (great MCR nod there!!) and it’s a collection of personal memorabilia from the 2007 wave of emo, ranging from bedroom selfies to ticket stubs, MySpace posts, band merch like t shirts and hoodies, personal photos. Lots of the content for this exhibition has been digitally unearthed by the Museum of Youth Culture from old hard drives and Photobucket accounts as well as submitted by emos themselves. The exhibition is so nostalgic and brings back so many memories of being a 12 year old on the internet. It you back to when we had iPod classics, Motorola razor flip phones where you could only store 50 text messages before the memory was full, when kerning and NME were a the height of their success and interviewing My Chemical Romance, who were my first real obsession, I can guarantee I have seen every single interview they’ve done, so it was also cool to see a few of their original annotated set lists too. The exhibition feel like a love letter to the emo subculture and really captures the community spirit that was an inherent part of it all. It takes about 30 mins to zip through, it’s free and you can find it in the Barbican library on the second floor. But! It’s only on until 15th Jan so hurry! No need to book tickets. #emo #London #londonlife #thingstodoinlondon #barbican #londonart #londonmusic #londonculture

Here is my guide as to what to eat and drink at a German (/north Hessen) Christmas market. Disclaimer: I’m sharing this reel because I want to continue sharing the joy that Christmas markets bring to so many at this time of year. The victims of the abhorrent attack in Magdeburg are in my thoughts daily, and I shall not allow the actions of one hate-filled man overshadow the beauty of these markets; joy, love and community must never be overwhelmed by hatred, anger and divisive actions. I also wish to show solidarity with the hardworking stall owners who make these markets so special and who rely on them for income. So - You’re in Germany! Pls don’t seek out any food that you’d eat in your home country. Push the boat out!! Try something new + regional. This market in Kassel is not designed with international tourists in mind - it’s for locals and regional tourists. The market is spread over 3 locations in the pedestrianised parts of the city (all within walking distance of one another and also with bollards in place for visitors’ safety) My favourite things to get eat/drink are: 1) Kartoffelpuffer (fried potato patties) with apple compote. 2) a nice fat German Bratwurst on bread with mustard 3) candied almonds and mulled wine boiled sweets 4) Speckkuchen, it’s a regional type of quiche / bacon pie/flan with a rye flour crust on the base and made with eggs, leeks and onions. It’s fatty and delicious. 5) all the mulled wine flavours. I’ve seen mulled wine with cherries, strawberry, raspberry; mulled white wine, mulled Bratapfel wine, hot caipirinha, my god the list goes on. It’s unreal!! I even saw a vegan non alcoholic mulled milk this year. 6) i’ve started seeing Ahle Wurst plates now too. This is a hard pork sausage and has protected geographical status in Germany. This is hands down the best sausage you can get in the entire world!! Viel Spaß! . . . . . #germany #germany🇩🇪 #germanchristmasmarket #Deutschland #weihnachtsmarkt #Glühwein #speckkuchen #kassel #hessen #weihnachtszeit #weihnachten #germanyhiddengems #kasselcity #kasselistschön #kasselfornia

Travelling from England to Germany for Christmas. Meine Deutsche Mutter und ich are driving as we have a dog, so we take the Stenaline ferry from Harwich to Hoek van Holland. We set off on Saturday evening, arrive at Harwich International Port for check in. This ferry reminds me of the titanic and it’s… only slightly alarming. The cabin is quite basic, it sleeps 2, you get a towel, shampoo and soap and you can choose a cabin with a window (more expensive) or one without (which feels like you’re in a coffin). The ferry has a playstation, a cinema, duty free shopping, restaurants and a very reasonably priced bar. £5 glasses of sparkling wine! HEAVEN! Sadly no champagne/cremant on this ferry (lol) but it has Cava which is a much better (drier) alternative to Prosecco. We arrive… at 5.30am UK time… and from here, it’s a 5 hour drive to the town in Germany where my family is from. Once you land in the Netherlands you have to drive on the wrong side of the road, which confusingly is actually the right side but as long as you are hugging the curb and not in the middle of the lane you’re fine. And once you get to the German motorway, you can drive as fast as you like, I think my record is 240kmph but its stressful and wastes a lot of petrol A sad day for all - I tried the Torres pickle crisps and…. No. They were too sweet. They taste like the bread and butter pickles you can get in New York which have no sourness at all, just sugary sweet. Sad! We finally arrive, get a few cakes from a bakery (Germany has the best bakeries in Europe - the cakes are so indulgent, decadent, rich, creamy… I could go on. And the bread is so moist it’s actually wet when you cut it open. I’m going to be doing more German content over the next few weeks so follow for more! #travelwithme #christmas #weihnachten #ferry #stenaline #London #londonlife #germany

This Is everything My brother and I ate at Londons oldest Michelin starred restaurant. (Invite) The restaurant is called Pied a Terre, It’s in Fitzrovia and has been Michelin starred for 31 consecutive years which is impressive given it burnt down in 2004 and retained its 2 stars that year. We had a 10 course tasting menu and a wine pairing. The first course was scallop stuffed chicken wing, oysters and exmoor caviar, and truffled egg with aged parmesan. Our first real starter is a plate of British tomatoes, in a tomato consume and topped with a bloody may granita. It’s an acidic dish so you cant pair it with an acidic wine as it will overwhelm your palate. The wine we had initially tasted soft and quite weak, But, after eating the tomatoes, and trying it again, it blossomed into a rich and tart flavour as it had taken on the tomatoes acidity. This is the first wine pairing I’ve had where I’ve actually noticed how much the food can impact the wine’s flavour. Second course was scallop with mushroom ketchup, king oyster mushroom, black autumn truffle and sauce vin jaune. Course number 4 is a Norfolk quail with pistachio, blackberry, duck liver mignonette and Elysium sauce. The year on a wine bottle indicates the grape harvest; this wines grapes were picked in 2013, the same year my brother started secondary school. I’m laughing here because ive never had meat like this! the quail was soft and pink and barely needed chewing, it was like eating butter. Course 5 was cod with squash prepared several different ways. This was paired with a chardonnay. I don’t usually like chardonnay because usually I find they taste like rancid butter, but this one was golden, full bodied and had a creamy texture. It came with a crab and sage profiterole. Course 6: Highland Venison Saddle with Roscoff Onion / Beetroot / Celeriac / Mayan Chocolate. Venison saddle is a premium cut which is taken from the back of the deer and it’s a very tender and and has a gamey flavour. Course 7 is the cheese course, we had a tete a moin which was served with crackers lodged into a tree trunk. Paired with a German wine grown in the Mosul region which hs some of the steepest vinerayrs in the world which you can see here There was a palate cleanser which I didnt film becuase i forgot but the course after that is the Peated Chocolate Mousse which is as heavy as it sounds. we finished with a few sweet bites The 10 course tasting menu cost £150pp and the wine pairing starts at £150pp and goes up to £450 for 8 glasses!!

I was in New York the other week and found across this restaurant by the Manhattan bridge called pearl street restaurant. It’s a raw bar and restaurant, I chose the 8 course tasting menu. (Invite!) The tasting Menu is q seafood heavy which I love and is the brainchild of owner John Coppola who has worked in restaurants for the past 28 years. The restaurant only has no tables, just 10 seats around the counter so you watch the chefs cook the food in front of you. I think this could create a really fun vibe if all 10 seats are filled, almost like youre at a friends dinner party. The first course was an oyster and a nice fat juicy prawn, which came with smoked trout roe, cocktail sauce and yuzu koshu mayo. 10/10 The second course was a Montauk fluke ceviche served with a citrus aguachile which is a liquid seasoned with chilli, lime juice and coriander. 9.5/10 Course 3 was seared diver scallops with raisins, toasted hazelnuts, cauliflower cream. 30000/10 Course 4 was tuna with kumquat, radish, scallion & chili relish 9/10 course number 5 was roasted pumpkin served in a dash sauce with roasted yeast oil. The oil gave the dish a gorgeously smoky, autumnal flavour. 10/10 Course 6 was wagyu with carrot puree and avocado mousse. 8/10 ~pickle interlude ~ Course 7 was Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches with foil gras ganache. 20000000/10 loved this!! The final, 8th course was an apple cheesecake mousse. 700/10 The tasting menu costs 95$pp, what do you think? The 4.9 star rating on Google says it all for me 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩 #tastingmenu #oysters #newyork #pearlstreetrestaurant #dumbo #rawbar #seafood #brooklyn #newyorkfood