What inspires us
Everything we experience forms a part of who we are and what we do and therefore what we offer. We rely heavily on the arts to inspire us and this is critical to us as individuals as well as a business.
Everyone at Creamer and Lloyd has their own budget for research and inspiration. On a regular basis we share on our website the best experiences we’ve had.
Tag: food
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Birdhouse, Battersea
A little slice of canary yellow and dove grey heaven. Birdhouse serves 1st rate coffee from Climpsons and Sons, along with homemade goodies. Quirky decor - water served in brown glass bottles and luminous kick stools - made me sigh with delight.
http://www.timeout.com/london/restaurants/venue/2%3A30697/birdhouse -
Future Foods
The symposium was a real insight into the urgent need for us all to look at the food we eat and the land we live on in a different and more conscious way. Alarming and hopeful in turns, punctuated with exquisitely prepared local food, I felt moved.
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Federation Coffee, Brixton Market
At last, an amazing coffee shop in South London! In a beautiful unpretentious little venue in the middle of the market, they serve cup after perfect cup accompanied by homemade cakes and the best savory muffins I have ever tried.
http://federationcoffee.com/ -
Easy Tasty Magic
Somewhere between ingredients and alchemy. Beautiful presented in jewel coloured glass. A pinch of magic to perfect any dish!
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Rediscovering salad
Secretts Farm had a stall at a market with a range of 6 different leaves, all different shapes, sizes, colours and tastes. If this is what salad is now capable of, why do we settle for the same boring stuff?
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Caravan, Exmouth Market
Small plate dining at its most inventive and the sweetest coffee.
http://www.caravanonexmouth.co.uk/ -
Gelupo
The finest ice cream shop in London.
http://www.gelupo.com/ -
Tawlet, Beirut
A rotating set of local hill top chefs make this restaurant a total treat.
http://www.tawlet.com/ -
Bone marrow at The Old Butchers
Sitting like three tiny cooling towers in a field of green this dish was a simple balance of rich perfectly cooked local meat and the sweet sharpness of tiny capers, finely chopped parsely and sea salt.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2006/may/14/foodanddrink.restaurants -
Lola Rojo (Northcote Road)
Every mouthful was a surprise and a delight. And when the waiter says he has a cracking wine that's not on the list, you know you're in heaven - which we were.
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Olive oil at Surbiton Farmers Market
Picked up a bottle of freshly pressed olive oil flown straight in from Sicily at a local produce market in Surbiton. Actually, picked up two.
http://www.cortedeisignori.com/ -
Club Gascon
Inventive yet traditional food that tastes as inspirational as it looks.
http://www.clubgascon.com/index2.php -
Low season in Tossa de Mar
Crowdless walk up the castle, griddled squid with chopped garlic and parsley and a glass of local white wine. Low season in la Costa Brava is a wonderful thing.
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Fire and Knives
Intelligent and highly entertaining new publication on food. Proves it can be done
http://fireandknives.com/ -
Pre-Christmas dinner at The Providores
Odd menu format by which all dishes are starter size and therefore four savoury dishes make perfect sense. The best one we sampled: a delightful and very quaint quail dish cooked 2-ways, conceived by BBC3's Young Chef of the Year contestant, Selin Kiazim.
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Ollie's vegetarian feast
Beetroot with horseradish and almond cream, okra with pomegranate and vegetables slow roasted with rose harrisa, lemon and cumin, inspired by Moro, cooked with passion, we nearly considered turning from our carnivorous preoccupations…
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Teddington Cheese Shop
About the size of a small kitchen. Chilled cupboards on the walls contained hidden delights. This must be our equivalent of those shops we rave about on holiday in France.
http://www.teddingtoncheese.co.uk/ -
Ransomes Dock
Quail with mint, date and orange and a glass of chilled Rosé, as the sun set, pink, dusty, dusk, over Ransome’s Dock.
http://www.ransomesdock.co.uk/restaurant/food.php -
Alphonso Mangoes
Now is the month, April/May, and best eaten whole in the shower such is the mess
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphonso_(mango) -
Echoes of Betutu Duck: a Josceline Dimbleby recipe
If you have a spare 7 hours, this is what you should do with them
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Bocca di Lupo - Carpaccio of Lamb
Uncanny food if the idea is even possible - familiar and yet extraordinary
http://www.boccadilupo.com/ -
Lola Rojo
Lolo Roja's menu combines traditional and contemporary Catalan cuisine using impeccable fresh local ingredients served with some of the best and most unpronounceable wines I have ever tried.
http://www.lolarojo.net -
Callooh Callay
Easy to miss among the Friday madness of Rivington St, here is a treasure trove of things weird and wonderful from gramophones to printed wallpaper and the most innovative use of old cassettes I seen yet. Looking forward to gallumphing back...
http://calloohcallaybar.com/ -
Terroirs No 5 William IV Street
Gorgeous food and the best by the glass wine list ever
http://www.viewlondon.co.uk/pubsandbars/terroirs-wine-bar-info-56119.html -
Kebab Café (Ali), NY
Behind a tiny shop front that you’d walk by lies a jewel of a culinary experience
http://nymag.com/listings/restaurant/kabab-cafe/
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