• Portsmouth
  • Cheese & Cheers, Southsea, Hampshire

    Cheese & Cheers, cheese Southsea, cheese Portsmouth, French, cheese, french cheese, wine, French wine, savoury

    Bonjour mes amis, I have found a new love – cheese! I’m not sure that it will ever replace chocolate and cakes but it comes very close. So I was delighted to find a new place opened up in Southsea, Portsmouth which had a French theme and contained lots of cheese. Cheese & Cheers! Geoff and […]

  • Austria
  • An Austrian Gala Dinner

    I have recently returned from a rather wet week in Austria, staying at the fabulous Gartenhotel Theresia in Saalbach-Hinterglemm, Austria who are now in their 3rd generation of owner-managers. They are the first hotel in the Salzburg region – and only ones in Hinterglemm – to offer fully organic cuisine and permitted to display the organic seal of approval. We had only two dry days but we […]

  • Products
  • Paul.A.Young Chocolates

    I was first drawn to Paul.A.Young by his unique and ever changing flavours including Black Pudding truffle and Pumpkin Pie which I saw at Chocolate Unwrapped. My mum and I have passed Paul A Young’s shop in Wardour Street, Soho several times but have never been inside nor tried any of his chocolates. This day, […]

  • Event
  • Chocolate Unwrapped 2012

    There seems to be an increase in the number of national weeks; Curry Week, Bramley Apple Week, and  Spa Week, to name a few. Not that I’m complaining, especially when it involves chocolate, a whole week of it in fact. Chocolate Week hosted a whole range of events across the UK including Chocolate Unwrapped, a […]