Comments on: Emica presents: Trafalgar Square tourist traps

By: Stuff I Like: Progressive Dinner Party | a shared table

Stuff I Like: Progressive Dinner Party | a shared table — Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:32:23 +0000

[...] of my gateway drug. Obvs I’m now a crack addict for blogging. On ProgDin I wrote about avoiding tourist traps in London, about a beautiful birthday dinner at St John Clerkenwell, our amazing eating in New York rain [...]

By: Kate

Kate — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:51:46 +0000

Nice one – I’m afraid my vision of London was based entirely on Nigella/Jamie and I thought it was some sort of gastronomic heaven with bounteous markets and millions of homely pubs doing fabulous things with sausages…

(While we’re on the topic of european food, anyone got any Paris dining recommendations?)

By: lauredhel

lauredhel — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:15:42 +0000

"coffee is DIRE in London!" It's been a good long while since I was there, but when I was I had a good cup at H.R. Higgins. Having just come from Barcelona and hit major decent-espresso withdrawal, it was a blessed relief at the time.

By: librarygirl

librarygirl — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 03:40:41 +0000

Thanks for the tips Emica, hope you are going to be writing more posts.

By: togram

togram — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 01:05:38 +0000

Great article Emica! A delight to imagine myself in a London summer, strolling in the park and looking for a comfy wine bar :) I look forward to reading about real coffee available in London (can it be true?).

I only wish we’d had the inside scoop when we were London tourists. A few dire “caf” meals was enough for us to start packing sandwiches!

By: kate

kate — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:58:03 +0000

Google has a solution for everything, if you want to avoid the supermarkets there are other fresh food options.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=104928741604613036597.000447d798a6eac4ec31a&ll=53.068737,-7.743654&spn=4.621925,9.338379&z=6&source=embed

By: kate

kate — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 23:34:22 +0000

FXH – I assume you know that if you’re headed to Ireland you should start getting over any coffee addiction you might have now. Because withdrawal on the plane and a holiday with a coffee headache is cruddy. The tea, however, is guaranteed to be strong and is almost always in a pot.

There is some good food in Ireland, lots of Irish people have lived overseas or travelled a lot, but it can be expensive and hard to find. The serves are always generous in my experience.

By: emica's sister

emica's sister — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:56:05 +0000

great article em! i expect a full article about melbourne too in october ;) x