Looking in retrospective it was quite a great year. We held the Olympic games here in London. The Rolling Stones did a handful of shows to celebrate their 50 years and charged outrageous prices for the tickets, you could basically buy all their records and dvds an still have money to get a meal in the Fat Duck. The best of all these was the typical political incorrectness of them making fun of that during the show.
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| The Rolling Stones ready for the show |
Checking my resolutions for 2012 I spent half of my time travelling to great new places such as Melbourne, Brisbane, and Charleston. I ate quite an amazing repertoire of new things that were great. And basically enjoyed as much as I could. I guessed for 2013 I should roll over some of my resolutions, try to do more exercise, keep in touch with the family, and the food related one should be easy to tackle.
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| London ready for the Olympic Games |
Yada Yada Awards 2012
Here is my top of 2012 in my humble search for soul food…
Yada Gluttony: The Llanera Arepa from Budare del Este in Caracas, you eat one of those then you can check out from the seven deadly sins list gluttony
Yada Asian: An Iron Chef was the success in Asian food. Morimoto in Napa Valley an amazing and unbelievable experience
Yada Burger: The Spotted Pig in NYC, April Bloomfield takes Manhattan by surprise with this amazing Gastro Pub
Yada Wings: Gami and their Korean Fried Chicken in Melbourne
Yada Curry: Dishoom in Covent Garden London
Yada New Kid on the Block: Upstairs at the Ten Bells. Iconic place and a great British restaurant
Yada Spaniard: Movida in Melbourne. Great Spanish cuisine and tapas bar
Yada Tapas: Jose a great sherry bar in Bermondsey
Yada Brunch: The Big Nasty from Hominy Grill restaurant in Peninsular Charleston
Yada Sandwich: Donald Link Muffuletta in his New Orleans’ restaurant Butcher
Yada Dawg: Big Apple Hot Dog and the Blog Eat Blog competition
Yada Market: Feast London. Two great events
Yada Food Truck: Pizza Pilgrims from London. My friends James and Tom left their jobs to get into the pizza business in a Piaggio Ape van trading in Soho
Yada Steakhouse: Moo Moo Grill in Brisbane. The flat iron 100% Wagyu is the best steak I have ever tried
Yada BBQ: Blue Smoke in NYC, wings and ribs to die for
Yada Tex-Mex: Border Grill in Vegas, Top Chef Masters Susan Fleniger and Mary Sue Milliken place
Yada Discovery of the Year: Cumulus Inc in Melbourne. Andrew McConnell’s amazing creations
Yada Revelation: FIG in Charleston. A great restaurant in a great culinary centre
Yada European: St John Hotel in Chinatown. A great place to eat British cuisine in Chinatown
Yada Fast Food: Panzerotti from Luini in Milano, an authentic Italian institution
Yada Odd: Liquid nitrogen ice cream in Camden Town from Chin Chin Labs
Yada Seafood: Charbroiled oysters at Drago’s in New Orleans
Yada Cheap: Pork steam bun in Chinatown London. Yang Guang Supermarket treats only 1.5 quid for each of these amazing buns
Yada Italian: Osteria Riva in Sydney. Best Italian cuisine I have tried outside Italy
Yada Pizza: Di Fara in Brooklyn. A legend in pizza making Domenico DeMarco
Yada Top Chef: Burger Bar in Las Vegas. Top Chef Master Hubert Keller burger place and his $60 burger
Yada Bourdain Tip: Domilise’s Po’Boy sandwich in New Orleans
Yada Coffee: Pietro Carbone educating Venezuela in the arts of coffee from his clothes shop Nino Carbone
Yada Michelin: Hakkasan in London. Great Chinese food
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| Happy New Year from London |
I wish you all a Happy New Year and the best for 2013. I can’t leave without a quote from the Seinfeld episode “The Yada Yada”
Marcy: You know, a friend of mine thought she got Legionnaire’s disease in the hot tub
George: Really? What happened?
Marcy: Oh, yada yada yada, just some bad egg salad. I'll be right back
Jerry: I noticed she's big on the phrase yada yada
George: Is yada yada bad?
Jerry: No, yada yada is good. She's very succinct
George: She is succinct
Jerry: Yeah, it's like you're dating USA Today
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