Restaurant Blog
Pre Theatre Menu
We have a specially selected 2 course menu for diners heading off to a screening, discussion or even the west end. Order by 6.30pm
Welcome to a new year and a new menu
Frontline restaurant would like to wish you Happy New Year and welcome you to our brand new menu under our new brilliant head chef John Edwards. John has joined us as of January and has come from some of the top British restaurants in town (including Alfred Dunhill Club). We are thrilled to have him […]
Restaurant trading days over Christmas period
Our last trading day over the festive season will be December 23rd. We would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and hope to see you when we are back – on January 4th 2010.
Food for thought
Frontline restaurant has been created to showcase our fresh produce and meats from our own Ellingham farm. Our aim is to achieve Self-Sufficiency, we strive to prove our point that we can still create a competitive business in a tough market and still retain our integrity in our beliefs on ethical and intelligent eating. We […]
London Restaurant Festival
Book a table now for the London Restaurant Festival: 8th-13th October! Celebrating Food in London – The London Restaurant Festival is a citywide celebration of eating out. For this occasion, Frontline Restaurant has created 2 special festival menus: 2 courses for £15 for lunch and 2 courses for £25 for dinner. For more please visit […]
Chicken Roundabout
A friend of mine lives near here and so do I, but we only realised how close we are when we started talking about the chicken roundabout. Chicken roundabout is a unique, and special place where a colony of chickens have managed to inhabit a busy roundabout on the A143 busy main route through East […]
Cheesecake
Thought I’d start on the recipes, and will be adding them regularly so keep checking for new additions. First, one of my favourites – nice and easy, great when you’re short of time and have guests coming over. Lime cheesecake INGREDIENTS: 200g cream cheese 200g crème fraîche 90g sugar 4 limes for juice and zest […]
Snowdrops
More and more snowdrops are appearing everywhere in the farm. Spring is not far away. I can’t wait.
Down on the farm
Just returned from the farm at Ellingham Hall and thought I’d keep you updated with the goings on. I went to visit our new fish supplier down at Lowestoft, he also has an old smokehouse dating back around 180 years, so stay tuned for some weird and wonderful things coming out of that one! Apart from that, […]
The Frontline philosophy
Over the last two years, all of us here have been intensely thinking about our very own farm development at Ellingham Hall. During this time we have witnessed the gradual birth of what began as an alcohol fueled dream between myself and Vaughan – in which I believe passionately by the way – as we stared at a pile of earth making up the 600 hundred […]
Back to the pig’s ear
I’ll be putting the finished pig’s ear salad on the menu tomorrow and our new entry in at number one is…Warm pig’s ear and pickled farm egg salad with hot Tewkesbury mustard dressing. Things on the back burner for next week are: Frontline’s first piece of cured bacon, turkey and elderberry sausage, and a new […]
Chit Chat
A few thoughts on some things I’ve done of late. First, I found a great new Lithuanian supermarket that I stumbled upon on Saturday, had a superb selection of cured smoked sausages. So, of course I had to indulge myself in the name of research… Findings: they surely know how to make a quality sausage product. […]
Making a pig’s ear of it at Frontline
We try to use all the cuts of the animal in the kitchen, but trying to get people to eat the extremities of the beast is the difficult part, and trying to make it sound appealing to the customer – even harder. But I have been developing an idea using pigs ears and I’ll upload some […]
From the Frontline to Fish n Chips
[video:youtube:sUhSBTCuGCk] I blame this post on Frontline blogger Rob Crilly. The Nairobi-based, Africa-wandering, freelance hack has taken it upon himself to sample the African take on Fish n Chips wherever he finds it on the continent. Whether it be good, bad, indifferent or possibly dangerous, Rob has kinda foolishly given himself the task of blogging […]
The Frontline Burger
They come from far and wide to eat the Frontline Burger. I spotted the Economist’s man in Tel Aviv tucking in during this sitting along with two other club regulars. And at £7 a meatpacked pop, who can blame them.
Cool down in Kabul
In Kabul, blazing hot, need to cool down, head to the local ice cream parlour and order yourself a Shir Yakh. No idea if it tastes any good, but SBS reporter Yalda Hakim got to try one as she returns to her birthplace, Kabul and blogs in words, pictures and video what she finds there, […]
From the sweet trolley part 1
Part 1 in an occasional series of posts live and direct from the bounteous Frontline Club restaurant sweet trolley. This is a chocolate brownie with some ice cream. It’s a cocosolids-sugarstacked slice of somewhere sweeter than planet earth. Tread carefully, one too many and you may turn…
Frontline fodder
British food bloggers descended upon the Frontline Club in London last week for our monthly Food and Wine event. Fortunately, all seemed to come away very impressed. Fraser from Blogjam and the Observer Food Monthly blog had his say, wine blogger Andrew blogged his experience at Spittoon.biz and Jeanne from Cook Sister! promises me she […]
Pizza in Kabul
Kabul hillside, originally uploaded by zedwards. Jean Mackenzie at the Institute for War and Peace reporting tells us how easy it is these days to grab a pizza in Kabul, Friday night at Boccacio, formerly known as Villa Villebita. Remember the old days? You would show up, desperate for the best pizza in town, a […]
Khmer Fried Chicken
In our global search for the cutting culinary edge and following on from the latest in Khartoum, we discover – courtesy of Phnomenon – that the devil’s spawn American fastfood chain KFC is coming to Cambodia and it’s coming soon, QSR Brands Bhd is expanding its restaurant business under the KFC brand to Cambodia. The […]
Khartoum cuisine
As far as I recall Khartoum didn’t figure in the World’s Best 50 restaurants this year and with highlights like the above it’s no wonder. Frontline Club social network member Andrew Heavens takes the cork off the Sudanese dining scene after his recent move from Addis Ababa, where dinner time was somewhat different.