please empty your brain below
Have we got to spot the spoof one? It's tricky but I reckon it's gotta be five.

Lorenzo Hermoso | 08.04.16 - 7:39 a.m. | #

Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, ...

Going to be humming it all day now - thanks!

Cornish Cockney | 08.04.16 - 8:02 a.m. | #

You have now given Theodora, Hugues and the rest of the PR hordes the green light to bombard you with their overhyped press releases and desperate attempts at bribery. So provocative, DG....

Waterhouse | 08.04.16 - 8:43 a.m. | #

... I was just going to say that if I was in town I'd so be at Number 5! Mmmmmmm Falafel! The charred eggplant sounds delish.

Antipodean | 08.04.16 - 8:47 a.m. | #

Number five is genuine - try Googling it!

Brock | 08.04.16 - 9:04 a.m. | #

Yup, they're all for real. I can remember rolling my eyes at each one.

I like falafel and all, but £20 to sample 4 half-sized portions of them? A good falafel is a wonderful thing (Hello, Jerusalem Falafel in Berwick St. Market!), but it's still just deep fried beans for god's sake!

Chz | 08.04.16 - 9:08 a.m. | #

£20 for two portions of falafel?

Bargain.

Arctic Troll | 08.04.16 - 9:21 a.m. | #

Oh alright, I agree on the price, but at the same time they do sound delish, and I lurve falafel. They are not all the same, I have a recipe for a Jewish one made with pumpkin and pine nuts that is a fave (and I love to try it cooked by someone with a lighter touch and a proper deep-fryer). Meanwhile, I looked up Zööba and if I ever get to Cairo I am so visiting there. Before then, I'm looking up a recipe for this number, which they serve.

“Such is the case with the areesh – a kind of cottage cheese – made into a sandwich with cumin, orange zest and honey. The bread comes in its regular form as well as pink or green varieties that have been hand-flavoured with beetroot or spinach and that nestle comfortably in small basket frames of latticed wood.”

Antipodean | 08.04.16 - 9:54 a.m. | #

I went to an Italian restaurant with friends at Christmas, and ordered an avocado starter.
I was pretty surprised when it arrived hot: I must admit it was the first time I'd had avocado anything but cold. Unusual but really nice.

RogerW | 08.04.16 - 10:08 a.m. | #

Spam, wonderful Spam... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anwy2MPT5RE&nohtml5=False

Bernie | 08.04.16 - 12:02 p.m. | #

I included number five on the list because of the final sentence. All that tempting description of the four falafels to start with, and then a lot of spin to try to make it sound like the half-size portions are somehow a good thing.

diamond geezer | Homepage | 08.04.16 - 4:54 p.m. | #

... and there was me, as a person of small appetite, thinking what a wonderful idea half-serves were. Don't suppose you'd care to go to the festival to see what else you get for twenty quid?

Anyway, reading this at dinner time, I went up to my local fish and chip shop (as they are called here) to have real Falafel made by the owners' mother, at home in her Lebanese kitchen, with homemade hummus, garlic sauce, lettuce and tomato, wrapped in a warm pita roll and then gently crisped on the hotplate, before being expertly rolled for take-out.

Suggestive marketing I call it.

Antipodean | 09.04.16 - 7:58 a.m. | #

Just this afternoon had four of the best falafel I've had in ages all for a quid at Taj the Grocer in Brighton, and you could get the train there and back for the other £19.

JD | 09.04.16 - 10:28 p.m. | #

"A six-course menu with matching sherries will be served on Sunday evenings and will meld the flavours of tomato and anchovy toasts with the briny breezes of Manzanilla, confit tuna and sweet onions with Fino, and the sweet, intense raisin nectar of Pedro Ximenez with Malaga raisin ice cream."

diamond geezer | Homepage | 02.05.16 - 4:08 p.m. | #

"Fear not, gourmet chocolate is most definitely on the menu, but also expect melt-in-the-mouth Tirggel, Turicum Gin infused with linden blossom from the middle of town and Gents tonic water made with quinine extracted from the Gentian root grown in the greater Zürich area."

diamond geezer | Homepage | 04.05.16 - 11:28 a.m. | #

"It's the rightest/wrongest/most dangerous pairing since Richard Burton and Liz Taylor: Krispy Kreme doughnuts — the ultimate givers of joy and diabetes — have twinned with Nutella to create the 'Nutty Chocolatta'. What's more, the doughnuts will be available from a vending machine in central London from Monday. Each doughnut is £2, which you can pay for with contactless only."

diamond geezer | Homepage | 06.05.16 - 10:34 a.m. | #











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