IFE 2013

It's that time of year to eat the most extraordinary range of foods in a couple of hours - the International Food & Drink Event at Excel.  What caught the eye this year:

Halal Beef Bacon - popular in Dubai and possibly worth trying to attract the Halal market for a Bacon Butty here.

Really innovative and one to watch if they can create a market - Fruitbroo hot drinks - from the guy who created and sold Clipper tea.  An alternative to tea and coffee with flavours such as Apple & Rhubarb and Honey & Lemon.

Salmon sold and steamed on a cedar plank from DJM Food Solutions

More to come over the next few days.

Great Signs

Printers & Stationers wine bar off Columbia Road

Upper Crust unit at Paddington Station

Ethel's Kitchen in Hove

A Great Start to the Day

Bacon Sandwich with HG Walter's organic bacon and Lantana tomato chutney on white sourdough bread.  £6 of great grub at Lantana Cafe, W1.

See also http://greatcafes.blogspot.com/2011/12/sex-drugs-bacon-rolls.html and http://greatcafes.blogspot.com/2011/10/75p-bacon-buttie.html

Sex, Drugs & Bacon Rolls

Sign at The Breakfast Club - "Home of the Bacon Butty" although it wasn't a patch on Popham Little Chef's Heston special with five rashers of  Denhay Wiltshire cure bacon - two back and three streaky - in quality bloomer bread.  That was magnificent.

Pret's new British Bacon Buttie sold from the heated wrap/porridge unit

The 75p Bacon Buttie

BHS wows them in at 75p for a bacon roll provided you buy a hot drink before 11.30am