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El Taller,The Table Restaurant, Tenerife

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  How Spanish food has improved, like English food, over the past few decades. On Tenerife, the largest of the Canary islands, we were looking for a special place to celebrate my husband's birthday.  He found a Michelin standard restaurant. A place where the ingredients, tastes, and presentation would be a surprise, something we could not or would not do at home. (That is a challenge, because my husband is a keen cook. He downloads recipes in French and translates them. He consults three version of the same dish. He shops for unusual ingredients, ordering Jersey potatoes online to get the right texture and flavour.) The name of the restaurant is El Taller. This is Spanish for workshop, studio, repair shop, or garage, depending on the context, the surroundings.   Wine muscat. 9 couses 1 chocolate ball with sweet tomato soup centre   The open hatch into the kitchen at the back enables you to watch the chef owner, Seve Diaz, preparing the set meals. You can see the...
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Panoramic Sea View on La Palma in the Canaries

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  The Interpretation Centres leaflet alerted me to the view and an eating place which was probably open, being part of a museum complex. Several restaurants had been closed on Sundays and Mondays. Others seemed to be closed in June. Waiting to open until high season., school holidays July and August and busy warm winter season September until January.  Our leaflet described the eating place as a cafeteria. But we had good, swift, waiter service from a friendly man who recommended a sweet verdecha grape wine which suited me. The dry wine for my husband was a blend including Malvasia grapes. The bread came with mango flavour butter. I had cod in a delicious slightly sweet red. Maybe tomato sauce. My husband,s salad looked like a flower. In the centre was a dome of white soft cheese covered in a skin of green sauce. The lettuce leaves, crisp, oval and green were arranged around the centre like petals. The spotless toilets for ladies had 3 cubicles all with wash basins plus anothe...
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Bodegas Teneguia, La Palma, The Canary Islands

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  The letters T and G are on labels on new wines from this huge important co-op, selling wines from 300 producers.  Sweet malvasia Photo by Angela Lansbury.
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Mango soup

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 In London I used to love drinking mango lassi in Indian restaurants. You could order it sweet, or savoury, salted. A four and a half hour flight from Stansted airport, north of London, took me and my husband to Tenerife. I first had mango soup in the parador Teide on Tenerife, one of the Spanish, Spanish-speaking Canary Islands. The second time was at a restaurant Casa Osmunda, the name of the original owner of the house, on the island of La Palma. We arrived after a two and a half hour ferry trip from Trnerife . , town hillside, Santa Cruz de la Palma, has the pory for ferIed and tbe airport.
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Distributor wanted - what does this mean?

 I remember when I first went to trade shows offering food and wine I would ask where their products could be bought in Britain, or Europe. Often the prospective seller would say distributor wanted. Or the catalogue might say that under their name. Some even had a sign on their table, distributor wanted. I wondered whether this was just the seller hoping that distributor walking by would try their wines or food. If the taster liked it, would they then decide to talk about it and seal a deal? Would there be conflicts of interest? We already have a Champagne. Or would it be the contrary. We stock Champagnes. Or we don't stock Champagnes. I always assumed that the first factor was finding a distributor. The second was convincing the prospect that you were offering a saleable product.  The forums and discussion sessions are often dealing with where is the market going. Are there more people in this country or that buying alcohol. low alcohol, no alcohol. healthy foods, small quant...
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Tesco Supermarket Meal Deal - With a White Chocolate Drink

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  The London Wine Show had little food. I was not keen on the prices of the kiosks either side.  On my way home on Monday I stopped at Tesco in Harrow and bought a meal deal, a chicken sandwich, one was enough for supper and I kept the other for lunch next day.  At checkout the assistant told me that it was part of a meal deal and it came with snack. I chose a chocolate bar.  White Chocolate Meal Drink The third part of the meal deal was a drink. I selected white chocolate protein drink. I love white chocolate.  Useful Websites https://www.tesco.com/
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Georgian Food and Wine

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 I went to try Georgian food and wine at the London Wine Fair which was a trade show held at Olympia, May 18 to 20th, 2026. Georgian food was new to me. I love novelties.  Georgian Food I tried three types of food. I rated them 5 star food, top, three star food, okay, one star, not yet - try again. Honey Cake - Top Rated Top food was honey cake. Brown, small, looked like bands of darker and slightly lighter colour. Melt in the mouth honey flavour. Definitely one to look for. One to make yourself. Then compare your version with theirs. The Georgian Stand Their stand was visibly headed Georgia, home of wine, birthplace of wine. I expect they will be at the World Travel Market travel trade show held in London in the autumn off-season every year, November 3-5 in 2026 at Excel. Similar events are held in other countries. NOTING ANNUAL EVENTS IN  NEXT YEAR'S DIARY The next London Wine Fair is in 2027. November 3-5 at Excel. Mark the date on the back of your diary, or the last d...
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