Chunky Pilgrim (2024)

13/11/2022

Delicious meal at a few months back. The opening plate of raw soy duck was an absolute winner and reminiscent of fine tuna sashimi. In a town that has a massively out weighted level of fantastic restaurants for it’s small size, St Leonard’s in West Malling is definitely worth a visit!

31/10/2022

Happy Halloween! 🎃 Don’t wasn’t your left over pumpkins: make risotto. Black risotto is usually the go to rice for seafood, but it also perfectly plays with the sweetness of pumpkin. We made ours with pretty much a whole bottle of white wine, as well as a sprinkle of chilli flakes. Here’s how we did it:

- Dice a small pumpkin or half of a medium pumpkin into 1-2cm chucks and set aside.
- Dice and slow cook a large white onion in oil with salt and pepper.
- Finely chop 4-5 large garlic cloves and add to the pan once the onions are soft.
- Once the garlic is cooked, add a swig of wine and blend with the onion and garlic mix.
- Add 300-400g of black risotto rice and mix in with the onion and garlic over heat for a minute.
- Pour in a cup or two of white wine and cook until absorbed.
- Mix up a couple of litres of hot water with vegetable stock.
- Add enough stock to more than cover the rice. Bring to the boil and cook until the water is absorbed.
- Repeat until the rice is al dente – this will likely take 30 minutes or so with the black rice taking longer to cook.
- In the meantime, roast the pumpkin - lay on a baking tray or in an air fryer and lightly cover with oil and a sprinkle of salt.
- For the final addition of liquid to the risotto, use half a bottle of wine. The rice should now be soft and slightly al dente.
- Gently stir in the roasted pumpkin, being careful not to mash it.
- Stir in 50-75g of finely grated parmesan cheese.
- Add plenty of salt and pepper to taste and a sprinkling of chilli flakes.
- Serve with a little more parmesan and enjoy!

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23/10/2022

An ultra elevated Sunday lunch at the with flavour to match the beauty of the plates and location on the River Stour 👌

(Captured a few months back, so don’t expect the menu to be the same if you’re going soon!)

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13/10/2022

🍜 WHAT A LUNCH 🍜

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04/10/2022

A platter of sun soaked jerk chicken: the perfect antidote to an overcast day 🌤

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01/10/2022

A tour of Kent’s best eating spots this summer ☀️

1. Elevated excellence for lunch at in West Malling.

2. A beautiful lobster dinner at in Bridge.

3. An ultra refined Michelin-starred Sunday roast at sister pub in Fordwich.

4. A buttery, herby skate wing (and much more) at the ever-wonderful .bar in Margate.

5. Multiple trips made to over the last year, including some gorgeous steak pictured here - a gem of a spot on the river in Chatham that’s doing some fantastic stuff and will really surprise you.

6. Show-stopping Jerk Chicken on the beach in Broadstairs from and

7. Multiple trips for pizza with visiting friends and family for fantastic pizza and antipasti from in Westgate-on-Sea.

8. Perfect mackerel from another of our Westgate-on-Sea favourites - always great food.

9. A single pic managed in the dark from a visit during the opening week of - a lovely spot we’re due a return trip to.

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26/06/2022

Capturing the fun, opulence and tradition of Oslo Court, located in a St John’s Wood housing estate. A classic 1970s style French restaurant that’s said to have been a favoured haunt of various royals, waiter Neil Heshmat (pictured) has worked there for 45 years and has stories as colourful as his cakes 🍰

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19/06/2022

The perfect pork cutlet, served with mojo rojo 👌

05/06/2022

Behind the scenes at the legendary London flagship in Covent Garden 🥟🥟 🥟

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29/05/2022

It’s coming into the final month of British asparagus season, so get it while it’s fresh and local! 🌱

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15/05/2022

Kebab skewers and butter chicken wings at 🔥

Shot during the restaurant’s opening week for back in 2018 😮

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12/05/2022

The raw beauty of the far north Scottish Highlands in early spring 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

We didn’t eat out, but we did visit and pick up a couple of bottles from the amazing distillery, a small independent operation that’s also the most northerly distillery on mainland Scotland 🥃

It’s an incredible part of the world, and we even managed to drive the entire length of the UK back to Kent in a single day!

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08/05/2022

Mussels to give you 💪💪💪

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04/05/2022

The summer holiday season is just around the corner so here a fiesta of seafood and pasta from Croatia last year ☀️

If you’re heading to the Dubrovnik/Cavtat area, here are some recommendations from us, both new discoveries and places we enjoyed back when we were living there pre-pandemic:

Hotel Bellevue, Dubrovnik (to stay and eat - their restaurant V***r is in the Michelin Guide)
more.restaurant in Cavtat for some fantastic contemporary takes on traditional flavours - a place we will always go back to.

for the best traditional cooking in Cavtat - as well as some touches of innovation (not pictured here is the incredible fresh local snapper we had for dinner one evening)

on Lopud island (the ferry departs and returns regularly from Dubrovnik) - a restaurant we’ve been to many times and is always a special experience.

- something a little different, Croatian cooking with an Asian twist, great food and also fairly reasonably priced for Dubrovnik’s Old Town.

What are your favourite spots?

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30/03/2022

This might look meaty as hell, but it is in fact 100% plant-based celeriac and mushroom shawarma - a much missed dish from London’s Tramshed Project 🌯

06/03/2022

(Very belated!) Margate Eating Adventures Part 3. All shot on iPhone 📷

July 2021 and the re-opening weekend of .bar on Margate pier. Pops of fluffy on the inside, crispy on the outside parmesan fritters; mackerel with chopped salad and salsa verde; ultra creamy stracciatella with baby courgette; a hearty, beautifully balanced stew of clams and lamb and a punchy pasta packed with flakey fish and plump tomatoes - as well as some awesome orange wine 🍷

A summer evening in the wonderful garden: Cracking cured sea trout with dill pickled cucumber and lemon creme fraiche, roasted pork belly, perfectly pan fried sea bass, heritage tomato salad with goats cheese creme and sourdough crumb👌

Fast forward to winter and a seriously good (and amazing value) five course lunch at - the last in this series is the only pic we got - some super fresh and buttery sashimi with a lovely refreshing seaweed and cucumber salad. There was much more to shout about though: dressed whitstable oyster, noodles with mussels cooked in a warming broth, crab temaki and a tasty mochi with blackberry 🍱

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23/02/2022

Congratulations to on being awarded their second Michelin star. Here’s a throwback from a shoot of the restaurant we did back in 2018 for - a reimagining of a traditional West African Efo 👌

11/02/2022

We had a bit of a break from posting amid a very busy end of 2021 working on lots of fun projects with our commercial agency (please do check out our new website!)

With 2022 now in full swing we’re back to it, and we can’t wait to get chatting to you all 👋

PS, here’s three lovely oysters 🦪🦪🦪

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25/08/2021

This beautiful Nordic fennel bread served with lingonberry butter is baked fresh each day in the Eldr kitchen at

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15/08/2021

Sunday Steak Art 🎨 🥩

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12/08/2021

Peppers. Big or small, red or green: always best cooked over fire 🔥 🫑

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10/08/2021

☝️Always remember to properly salt your meat 🥩

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07/08/2021

This Sunday is closing its doors for the last time after a year of occupying the iconic Tramshed building in Shoreditch. It’s also the last time the Tramshed building will be open as a restaurant 😲

To celebrate the past year the team is putting on a special final feast on the day with and that will explore the idea that we should all eat less meat 🥩

Here’s a preview of one of the dishes, shot by us: a celeriac chop topped with foraged mushrooms and truffles 🔥

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05/08/2021

When shooting noodles, wrap around chop sticks 🍜

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05/08/2021

This weekend will be closing its doors for the last time after a year of occupying the iconic Tramshed building in Shoreditch. It’s also the last time the Tramshed building will be open as a restaurant 😲

To celebrate the past year the team is putting on a special final feast on Sunday with and that will explore the idea that we should all eat less meat 🥩

Here’s a preview of one of the dishes shot by us: a celeriac chop topped with foraged mushrooms and truffles 🔥

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25/07/2021

Challenging the popular Italian notion that fish should never be paired with cheese, this fresh tomato focaccia served with creamy burrata and sardines by is an absolute winner 🏆

It’s just one of many recipes in our cookbook collab with Danilo that challenges traditional Italian cooking - while also including the traditional recipes of his mamma (link in bio) 🧑‍🍳

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24/07/2021

A through back to shooting Fitzrovia for in the sun ☀️

This dessert is a Taiwanese pancake known as a Roon Bing filled with peanut butter ice cream, peanut brittle and coriander 🍨

We’re looking forward to seeing some tasty treats like this back on the menu when Bao Fitz opens back up 😋

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17/07/2021

With the pop up at the iconic Tramshed building coming to a close in just three weeks, a fantastic year of working on the project will also be ending. If you haven’t eaten there yet, we really recommend you do while you have the chance - the food is incredible, and it’s the last time the building is going to be a restaurant 🍽

Here’s one of the first pictures we took of the first menu created by and prepared by 👌

14/07/2021

This half herb fed Chicken with vibrant spring onions, lemon and aioli is a real taste of summer ☀️

One of our favourites from our latest shoot for 👌

10/07/2021

Recent Margate (& Beyond) Eating Adventures Part 2 🐟

A hop round to Broadstairs for re-opening week and a set of genre-bending small plates with flashes of Asian flavours. Cod ceviche in cultured buttermilk, lamb neck with fermented green chilli and oysters with salmon roe and elderflower wine. (Plus lovely soft shell crab lettuce tacos and some crafted cocktails.)

A lucky no wait Friday night table for some extra exquisite fish dishes accompanied by a bottle of very good natural wine. Meaty micro salad of beautiful flakey salt hake. Charred mackerel which sat wonderfully with the super sweet beetroot, cooling yogurt and refreshing cucumber. Firm, raw sea bass and artichoke covered in many, many glugs of olive oil.

Finally, a first visit to outside bar in the sun and a sample of fantastic pizzas with some unexpected toppings. A must try! 🍕🍺

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