Kitchen

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Storm in a furry teacup

LinkMachineGo has been keeping us up to speed with the fallout over Alan Moore’s Lost Girls: Comic row over graphic Peter Pan / Sex acts’ Wendy is Panned / Hospital worry at “porn” take on Peter Pan’s Wendy / Alan Moore’s erotic Lost Girls / …

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Standard v Ramsay…Ramsay Wins.

Gordon Ramsay has ‘accepted’ £75,000 from the Evening Standard over false claims made in the paper that he and the makers of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares ‘cynically faked scenes’. And just when you thought this story couldn’t get any better, it turns out the offending member …

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Random Graffito of the Week

Haute cuisine, Pimlico style. This little recipe is carved into parallel bars on the Lillington Gardens Estate. You won’t find that on Saturday Kitchen.

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Commercial Theatre, Theatre Commercials

Last week, as The Sultan’s Elephant brought theatre and spectacle onto the streets and straight to the people, an apt debate titled West End Theatre Should Be Sunk In The Atlantic. took place at the Menier Chocolate Factory in Southwark. Time Out’s Deputy Theatre Editor, …

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Booking Ahead

A day earlier than usual, here’s the Londonist skinny on next week’s giggage. Tonight: Not just the Blang night we mentioned last week but also a night of aMIGO’s blues-funk, courtesy of Tim Staffell, the man whose band became Queen, at the George IV, 185 …

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TV Troll: Domestic Hellspawn

TV Troll is in a bit of a domestic mood this week; it must be the horrible cold weather. So, to celebrate this, here are a couple of programmes guaranteed to make those of a foodie bent quiver with joy. First up is Gordon Ramsay, …

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Table Of Four: Cru, Hoxton Square and Café Naz, Brick Lane

Table of Four went all radical this week and became two tables of, er, two. We went in search of old favourites, just to check in and make sure they were still performing to standard as recent voyages into the unknown had taken us off …

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LFF Preview: FACTOTUM and DARK HORSE

Seven days to go until the London Film Festival opens its doors. Here’s another two of the films on offer. It turned a few heads when it was announced that Bent Hamer (Kitchen Stories) was going to direct the film adaptation of Charles Bukowski’s Factotum, …

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Curry, Seafood And How To Free The Chef In You

Fast becoming the alternative to the Notting Hill Carnival, the Brick Lane Festival is a street carnival, food festival and outdoor music shindig all in one. It’s going to be big, noisy and tasty… Contributing to the music element of this mela is the ever-hip …

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TV Troll: Eyes Back Squarer Than Square

There’s lots and lots and LOTS on TV for a square-eyed troll to watch this week. Tonight, for example, we go from the serious (The Battle For Islam, Mon, 9pm BBC2) to the ‘not so serious but still thought provoking’ (Tottenham Ayatollah Revisited, Mon 8pm …