It’s widely said that the best way to explore the islands of Croatia is to sail around them and we couldn’t agree more. There’s nothing quite like island hopping; exploring towns and coastal villages, stopping at isolated coves for a refreshing dip in turquoise waters, preparing leisurely onboard meals using fresh produce collected at your …
Chicken Fricassee with Pesto and Sun-Blushed Tomatoes
Looking for a delicious, easy, one-pot chicken dish packed with flavour? Then you can’t go wrong with this modern Chicken Fricassee recipe by Anna Haugh. Currently top of our favourite recipe list, we licked our plates clean! Serves 2
Madeira Restaurant Review
With over 1,000 restaurants in Madeira’s capital city Funchal you will definitely be spoilt for choice; from modern and sophisticated eateries offering international cuisine, to locally-sourced fresh seafood, meat and seasonal produce served up in traditional tavernas, whatever your craving you will find it when visiting this culinary city. We recommend reading TripAdvisor for the …
Reid’s Palace Hotel, Madeira
What an unsettling couple of years it has been with the onslaught of the global COVID-19 pandemic. With many lives and businesses affected, if there is a silver lining, it’s given us all a chance to reboot and come together. So without further ado Planet Elldrew have dusted off their keyboard to bring you our …
Chicken Pad Krapow
We’ve nicked this simple Thai Chicken Pad Krapow recipe from John Whaite’s ‘A flash in the Pan’ cookbook, we fell in love with the dish as soon as it hit our lips. It couldn’t be any simpler to prepare and cook, bursting with flavour, it leaves a tingle on your lips from the heat of …
Larios on the Beach Restaurant, Miami Beach
For our last night in busy South Beach, without a prearranged booking, thumbing through the local restaurant guide, we fell upon Gloria Estefan’s South Beach flagship – Larios on the Beach – and thought why not, who doesn’t love a bit of Gloria? Slightly apprehensive that we could call and get a table so easily …
The Sir Richard Steele “Pub to Go”
Ell, a born and bred North Londoner, has seen his fair share of local pubs come and go with the whims of fashion and the in-crowd. Nowhere more so than in Steeles village, Haverstock Hill, once home to the achingly trendy and celeb packed Haverstock Arms and equally notorious Hill. But whilst they may have come …
Prime 112 Restaurant, Miami Beach
En route for our pre-COVID holiday to Blue Waters Resort in Antigua we made a fleeting pitstop in Miami, staying at the National Hotel, one of Miami’s original Art Deco icons on South Beach. We naturally did pre-holiday research for places to dine and restaurant Prime 112 (Prime One Twelve) consistently came up as another …
The National Hotel, Miami
Miami’s archetypal South Beach Art Deco hotels started popping up around the 1930s and still continue to attract an upscale crowd who long to laze around their famous pools that line the seaside thoroughfare…names like Delano, Raleigh and Carlyle proudly share their status with Hollywood legends Gable, Monroe and Bogart. The National, which opened in …
Japanese Garlic Fried Rice
This delicious Japanese garlic fried rice recipe has become an Elldrew favourite during lockdown. We prefer to make too much so that we have leftovers but, be warned, it’s garlicky, but like any dish, you can reduce the amount of garlic if you plan on kissing anyone that night! To make any fried rice you …