Category: Jonathan

It had been another hot day in Frankfurt, and on the way home from work I called in at my local supermarket to buy a tray of sushi for a light dinner. It was all nicely prepared, with ginger, wasabi and soy sauce on the side. The main problem with it though, as with...

One of the nice things about having time on your hands is you can put something in the oven early afternoon, go out for a few hours, and find it ready when you get home for dinner. This was the case one day last week with family, and we...

I spent last week with family in the Cotswolds, an area a couple of hours drive west of London, and enjoyed being cooked for every evening! The first dinner started with trout pâté from the nearby Donnington trout farm. Despite having been frozen for several months, it had lost none of...

With 73,719 entrants, the 2008 JPMorgan Chase Corporate Challenge in Frankfurt is the largest race in the world to date. It’s a short run of 3.5 miles, but still worth preparing for. In addition to training runs, I made sure the food and drink side was in order in the days leading...

I was in Zürich this week with work. The Euro 2008 football competition being hosted in Switzerland and Austria meant the city centre hotels were full, so I stayed in the Renaissance Zürich hotel out near the airport. As there was nowhere to eat within walking distance, I stayed in the hotel for dinner. I opted for “Asian...

There is a street in Frankfurt just near the Old Opera House called the Fressgasse, which translates roughly as ‘gobble street’ as it is lined with cafes and restaurants. Periodically there are food and drink fairs held there, and a group of friends and I went to one last week. We found a large table at one...

Despite the title, I was actually in Dubai on the last day of my trip. I had been recommended this Italian restaurant in the Sheraton Dubai Creek hotel, and as I had an hour to spare, decided to give it a try for lunch. The tables on the veranda...

The next stop on my Middle East trip was Dubai, staying at the Jumeirah Emirates Towers hotel. Whilst very nice, it was rather too formal and expensive for a relaxing dinner, so I ventured across the road to the Crowne Plaza hotel. On the first floor is a seafood...

I spent the week visiting clients in Bahrain and the UAE, neither of which I had been to before. I started in Bahrain, staying at the Ritz-Carlton just outside Manama. After a swim at the hotel’s private beach and use of the health club, I was feeling a bit hungry. There...

Nordsee is a German fast food restaurant chain, specialising in fish. I often buy fish sandwiches or sushi to go, but if you have time to stay, they will cook your fish in front of you, and you can choose chips, vegetables and salad. They also have a fish counter, and I recently bought some...