When Mac met Cheese, London

The second meal yesterday was at a place which I have been stalking on instagram and twitter for about the last 6 months - when Mac met Cheese! They started out life as a pop up restaurant, but recently opened in Bayswater, where they will be until the start of June, so I decided it was high time to visit!The menu is pretty simple, but just how complicated would you want mac and cheese to be?! Starters are limited to two flavours of "macancinis"...

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Boom Burger, London

Yesterday I spent a lovely sunny Saturday in London, having two lovely meals with friends; the first of these was at Boom Burger on Portobello Road. Boom Burger is relatively new to the London burger scene - it's a tiny little restaurant/take away with only about 5 tables, serving Jamaican style burgers, salads and sides. It's nothing fancy at all - you order at the counter, everything is served in plastic diner-style baskets and plastic cups,...

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Taqueria, London

For a Mother's Day treat my mum and I went to London to visit the V&A, and then I took her out for a meal at Taqueria in Notting Hill. There were some amazing exhibits at the museum; our favourites were the jewellery through the ages one, especially the display of rings with different gemstones, and the theatre and performance one, where you could see the horse puppet used in War Horse, and there was so much cool memorabilia!I'd been to Taqueria...

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The Cottage Kitchen, St Andrews

Cottage Kitchen is a really attractive looking coffee shop on Logies Lane (near Little Italy); it's in a lovely white stone building, has fairy lights around the windows, and Christopher and I basically had our noses pressed to the window one day because of the amazing looking brownies in big glass jars! The inside reminded me of a lovely homely countryside kitchen, with big wooden tables and chairs, Cath Kidston jugs of water, and pretty...

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Nahm Jim, St Andrews

On my first visit to St Andrews a year ago, Christopher's friend Natalie (who is from St Andrews) said that Nahm Jim is her favourite restaurant, and a year on I finally managed to go there to put her recommendation to the test! Nahm Jim was also the 2010 winner of Gordon Ramsay's best UK Thai restaurant, and the Times ranked it in their top ten, so I definitely had high levels of expectation.As you walk up the stairs into the restaurant, there are...

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