If you haven't signed up to Emerald Street's brilliant daily mail outs, then I suggest you do so sharpish. They very helpfully pointed out recently that New Street Grill offers a NYC style Sunday brunch; translation - all you can drink prosecco and amazing food for the teeny tiny sum of about £30. My friend Julia and I had already experienced this sort of phenomen at SoHo House in New York and we were damned if we were going to pass up the opportunity to do so again. So, fou

It is very unusual for me to want to eat at the same place twice in one weekend, but L'Antica made me do it. It's a teeny tiny little place on the hill going up Heath Street in Hampstead and we're quite frankly obsessed with it*. Their pizzas, which I idiotically did not photograph once, are insanely good - we're talking almost Franco Manca good here - and they have lots of other lovely lovely things to eat and drink. The one picture I did manage to take shows their burrata (

Making Easter lunch is one of my favourite occasions of the year, and you really can't beat a nice piece of lamb. Usually I stick to a shoulder or leg of lamb, but as I knew my mother-in-law was doing a leg for the traditional big Easter roast, I wanted to do something a bit different. I popped into the amazing Hampstead Butcher and Providore to see what delicious meaty offerings they had for the weekend and after a bit of a wobble with a pretty incredible looking veal chop,

I've been wanting to try and make Beer Butt Chicken since I saw Jamie Oliver making his on TV a while ago, so when I looked in the fridge this week and saw a fat little chicken and a can of Red Stripe next to each other, dinner was sorted. I remembered the method from seeing Jamie do it himself, but I looked up his idea for a marinade and pretty much copied the one he suggests here. I didn't have any cumin seeds, so I left these out and I added some crazy hot dried chillis my