Cheese Cracker

Not too long after I arrived in London I noticed a little unassuming place on Moxon Street called La Fromagerie. It looked marvellous - a cheese room, walls of wine, artisan breads, fresh produce, leaf teas, a lovely sit down area..... I wondered how best does one do this place? Breakfast hopefully (I tried to once or twice), Sunday lunch (maybe), dinner..... well tonight I finally worked it out. Cheese and wine tasting. I've just come from there where it was an evening on Piedmont. Conveniently, the region where I was last weekend for the Slow Food Cheese Festival, so a wonderful follow up, and in it's own right exquisite. Patricia Michelson who opened the first shop in Highbury in the early 90's took us through a wonderful array of wine, cheese and food from the region in Northern Italy. It began with Prosecco and Grana Padana crisps, and ended with pears and quince poached with vanilla mascarpone, and in between included risotto, Ubriaco, Branzi, Taleggio, truffle cheeses, Barbera and Nebbiolo wines. No doubt you've heard of all of them. I certainly hadn't, many of them aren't publicly available apparently. It was a cracker.

http://www.lafromagerie.co.uk/

Thanks Tess.

See you for Wine on Wednesday next week.

Antonioni