• 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 […]

  • Weekly Treats
  • This week’s sweet treats : 13/02/2015

    sweet treats, this week's sweet treats, Abbotsford, Abbotsford Convent, Aunty Peg’s, Aylings, Aylings Garden Centre, Aylings Trotton, Bianco Latte, Cafe Trotton, cheese scone, chococo, chocolate buttons, Collingwood, Country Cabin, Country Cabin Trotton, crêpe, creperie, Croissant, Cycling, DIY, espresso, food blogger, French deli, gelato, Hampshire, handmade, handmade chocolates, High Street, hot chocolate, Lucile’s, Lucile’s crêperie, Lucile’s Delicatessen, Marmion Road, melbourne, Melbourne blogger, Melbourne food blogger, mother & daughter food blogger, Nutella Day, Nutella pancake, pancake, Pancake Day, pistachio orange blossom croissant, PMC, Proud Mary, Proud Mary Coffee, scone, Southsea, supper market, Swanage chocolates, The Country Cabin, Trotton, West Sussex, Winchester, Winchester chocolates

    What better way to start your Friday than with our weekly round-up of some of the many sweet treats we’ve eaten this week, in the UK and Australia. Here’s five of our favourites! Clockwise from L-R 1. Helen’s incredible espresso by Proud Mary Coffee and a pistachio orange blossom croissant left her so in love […]

  • Portsmouth
  • Rosie’s Vineyard, Southsea, Portsmouth – PERMANENTLY CLOSED

    UPDATE 2020: Unfortunately Rosie’s has permanently closed. We are so sad, it was a lovely place with great food, wine and music! We miss it very much. There’s a new eatery there now called The Beacon which serves fries, burgers etc., UPDATE: see bottom of post In all the years Rosie’s Vineyard has been in […]

  • Weekly Treats
  • This week’s sweet treats : 31/10/2014

    Icon Park, Beaufort Street, Perth, Sydney, Australia, travel, sweet treats, this week's sweet treats, backpacker, backpacker blog, mother & daughter blog, mother & daughter food bloggers, food blogger, travel blog, custard tart, Portugese tart, Pasteis de Nata, raspberry, raspberries, patisserie, French patisserie, Combourg, France, Max Brenner, chocolates, praline, peanut butter, coffee, ice coffee, Rupert & Ruby, Mary Street Bakery, salted caramel doughnut, Casa Castro, Southsea, Portsmouth, Albert Road, Albert road southsea, focaccia

    What better way to start your Friday than with our weekly round-up of some of the many sweet treats we’ve eaten this week. Here’s five of our favourites! Clockwise from L-R 1. I found another Portugese tart, they seem to be quite popular now. Also known as Pastéis de Nata, they are made from a […]