dines at the Alan Murchison pop-up in Terravina...

I'm fortunate to live part of the week in the New Forest, with its outstanding produce, gorgeous landscape and free roaming pigs, ponies and cattle.  There's an increasingly significant food and wine scene developing here, with a notable number of fine hotels and food festivals.

Mr R.E. breakfasts at Browns Hotel...

Today the Breakfast venue is Browns. Arguably, the first hotel in London, established in 1837, the website says that this five star establishment welcomes guests that are 'in the know'.   I have no idea what that means, so I must be completely clueless. Armed with that knowledge, I'm expecting to be greeted by a doorman extending a hand for some secret handshake, or worse expecting me to deliver a password, the failure to deliver either resulting in me being thrown out onto the street. Disappointingly, I'm asked for neither, and am shown to the Hix restaurant.

dines at the Mark Lloyd pop-up at Ben's Canteen...

Ben's Canteen sits on St John's Hill, one of the busiest restaurant streets running between Wandsworth and Clapham.  Alongside The Ship down the road, the Canteen is a regular favourite of SW cooks, bloggers and foodies - I'd been hearing lots of good things about it. I'm not generally a burger and scotch egg kind of girl, not a surprise to my regular readers I'm sure, but when we heard that Ben was hosting a Mark Lloyd pop-up featuring game, our interest was definitely piqued.