• Chichester
  • Artie’s Kitchen, Chichester, West Sussex

    Artie's, Artie's Kitchen, Chichester, Southgate, cafe, Artisan Cafe, Boulangerie Victor Hugo, Southampton, Treagust, H.H.Treagust, butchers Emsworth, Wicor Marine, Salt Cafe, Portchester, The Hungry Guest, The Hungry Guest Bakery, The Hungry Guest deli, French, custard tart, coffee, barista, Mr Fitzpatricks, Mr Fitzpatricks cordial, sour cherry, grape & hibiscus, cordial, vintage cordial, chocolate brownie, pecan pie, Petworth, West Sussex, Chichester, coffee shop Chichester, goat's cheese, breakfast,

    UPDATE 2018: Bit of a late update, Arties has been a place for tapas for a good two years. Although I believe they still serve a normal breakfast menu (forgive me if I’m wrong), lunch is now tapas. I’ve been there a couple of times but as I’m not a great lover of tapas (my […]

  • Australia
  • Best Melbourne Brunch: A round-up

    Best brunch melbourne

    For Melbournians, brunch is the best meal of the day. Well, it certainly was for me and I enjoyed countless classic morning dishes during my six months in the city. Don’t worry, I’ll be back and they’ll be plenty more to come but I’m taking a brief “vacation” to work on a cattle ranch in […]

  • Portsmouth
  • Lou Lou’s Brasserie, Southsea, Portsmouth – PERMANENTLY CLOSED

    Darcy's Kitchen, Lou Lou's, Southsea, Brasserie, Southsea brasserie, Portsmouth brasserie, Hampshire brasserie, Lou Lou's Brasserie, brunch, breakfast, coffee house, Southsea restaurant, muffin, scrambled egg, bacon, carrot cake, copper skillets, copper kettle, copper jelly moulds, butchers, Southsea butcher, food blogger, mother & daughter food blogger, Helen Newman food blogger, Alison Newman food blogger, blogger,

    PERMANENTLY CLOSED: February 2019 – Sadly Lou Lou’s has now closed. Darcy’s Kitchen has opened in it’s place. I recently visited Darcy’s Kitchen and had this non-vegan halloumi and roasted vegetable sandwich. It was offered as vegan halloumi but I wanted non-vegan halloumi. The chef went across the road to Waitrose and came back with […]

  • London
  • Brickwood Coffee and Bread

    The days I spend with my mother, the other half of livelifelovecake, are precious now that I live in London. Although, our distance is probably for the best as whenever we are together all we do is indulge in our favourite food and drink, after all, we need to taste good food in order to […]