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Arabella Weir at Pick More Daisies |
Forget the posh nosh and get stuck in, says Arabella
Comedian Arabella Weir can’t abide food bores and writer Sally Nicolls has
several favourite venues, writes Peter Gruner
THE star of TV’s The Fast Show and Posh Nosh, Arabella Weir, admits to being sick of food snobbery, the rise of the super chef and the bores who witter on about the right way to cook a casserole.
“One shouldn’t feel intimidated about food,” said Arabella whose sitcom on the BBC, Posh Nosh, which she wrote and starred with Richard E Grant, mercilessly pilloried the rise of the pompous and wordy television chef.
It was a world where the skin of a sturgeon was “pillaged” before being lain on a “duvet of rice” and the stock was “annoyed” rather than stirred.
The Posh Nosh idea came about after watching Delia Smith showing viewers the correct way to cook a boiled egg.
Arabella, co-chairwoman of Ashmount school parents and teachers association in Islington, added: “Then I started reading the cookery books and discovered that chefs were saying you had to do this or that.
“Most of the cookery books seem to say the same thing only written in a different style. They were telling us how to cook sausage and mash and turning it into a science. As a result I’m afraid I have a certain antipathy to cookery books. I don’t want them.”
Her favourite restaurant is Pick More Daises, which is at Crouch End.
The venue recently came second in the UK for good quality hamburgers in Restaurant magazine. “It’s hamburgers and chips, bacon sandwiches, anything you want and very child friendly,” Arabella added.
Over at Primrose Hill, Sally Nicolls, the woman whose book has made spread betting sexy, goes to J’s restaurant in Regent’s Park Road. “They always know what coffee I’ll have and start making it as soon as I come in,” she said. “It’s a weak cappuccino with milk and a hint of coffee.
“They also love my dog Dow Jones. Her favourite snack is bruchetta with tomatoes and garlic.
She also goes to Odettes, also in Regent’s Park Road, now under new management, which has a Welsh chef and serves modern English food. “I’ve enjoyed the duck and they make the best homemade ice cream on the planet.”
She also likes the Nautilus in West Hampstead “for the best” fish and chips in London.
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