Bready Danishes at Grainier

I have always wanted to try Grainier in Bayswater but there are too many options in the area.

Finally tried it one afternoon and found it very similar to Camden Bakery in terms of layout and food items.

Their Danishes were definitely different, the ones looking like apple turnovers were filled with cherries while the one with cherry was filled with apple.

The Danish that they offer is rather different to the conventional Danish pastry or crowns, it was bready and bun like.

It turns out that these are Spanish treats.

Overall, not bad but different.

Crumble Mania opens in East Croydon

Crumble Mania opens in East Croydon, this is the second shop to open following the main shop in New Cross.

Same as Humble Crumble, you get to choose a fruit base from cherry, apricot peach, apple, rhubarb and cherry topped with crumble and a topping of your choice like coconut/biscoff etc.

Extras include custard/ice cream
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WARM cakes at The little Dessert shop

Made a visit to The Little Dessert shop because we needed some dessert.

The cakes in the cabinet caught my attention immediately and there was a table to dine there.

Ordered the American birthday cake which I thought would look nice for pictures but it turns out that they serve it in a box instead of a plate.

You get a choice of ice cream or custard which is interesting so chose ice cream but it turns out the cake is served warm so in that respect custard would be a better pairing.

Overall, the cake was nice warmed which is like having a freshly baked cake from the oven however the icing melted.

The custard they serve is Devon which is creamy and nice.

 

The Little dessert shop:

145 Lavender Hill, London SW11 5QJ

Food on board the Caledonia Sleeper!

I am so glad I got to try a majority of the menu from the Caledonian sleeper made by Rail Gourmet UK because I love Haggis and black pudding.

These meals were donated to The Peel to the people in need.

As there was still quite a surplus at the end so I was able to try a good range.
The best item was the cherry clootie with Whisky anglaise and the smoked trout pate was seriously good with the capers.

Gimmick restaurant style pot noodles at Tommy Yummy

Tommy Yummy has been on my to go list because of the gimmick pot noodles.
Finally went and it was one of those scan to order style restaurants which is annoying.
I'd rather they had a mobile ipad or some device to let people order online because it would be more convenient and you can view it like a menu with friends or whoever you are dining with.
The day and night menu is very different, during the day they have express lunch sets for those looking for a quick lunch, however the choices for lunch are more basic as you can imagine as it has to be quick.
I visited during lunch which was probably the wrong decision because of the queue and choices but luckily they still had what I was after.
Now to the star of the show the Stir Fried cup noodle with seafood which really matches the style of the owner Tommy hence the name Tommy Yummy!!!
As expected, you get served a plate of noodles with a cup noodle cup as if it was just poured out.
Overall, nice tom yum flavours but a bit too spicy for my palate and there were so many chilli seeds which were annoying.
I was expecting the long octopus tentacle show on many pics of this dish on social media but it was not in my dish.
Interestingly, I found two different types of instant noodles in the noodle, one was the round strands and the other was the flat strands just like regular Nissin cup noodles.
After looking at pictures of this dish, it seems that I got a mix of different noodles because they probably ran out of the flat instant noodles which is really sad because the round strands are not as good as the thin flat strands in terms of mouthfeel and taste.
The cup noodle paper cup was tailor made for the Tommy Yummy restaurant which can be seen in the design.
Overall, I tried it for the experience so probably wouldn't order this again but I do like their coconut pandan soda drink which I might come back for.

Soybean soup with scallops at ichijuissai

As I was leaving Admiralty MTR, I noticed this Japanese food joint right next to Hana Musubi so went in and had a look.

Just like HM, they also did soybean soup which they call potage.

There are various soybean soups to choose from so I suspect the soup base is the same with the different ingredients of your choice plonked in.

The simplistic menu and options at this place reminded me of Muji meals.

One of the captivating rice options was the plain rice with crab tomalley and miso.

Since I was having dinner that night, I settled for the soybean soup with scallop and radish.

Just as suspected it was the soybean broth with scallops and radish added.

I felt that the soup was a little disappointing because you couldn't really taste the soybean flavour like Hana Musubi and it was rather bland and boring.

The rice with crab tomalley is probably a better choice.