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Moet Oscars Cocktail Recipe
Often referred to as the champagne of Hollywood (Since the 1930s Moet & Chandon has supported hundreds of movies ranging from classics like Luis Bunuel’s ‘The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie’, Pretty Woman, and Titanic through to Ocean’s 12 and Sex and the City 2) in 2012 Moet launched its first Oscars cocktail competition to celebrate its fourth anniversary as Oscars official champagne sponsor. Participants submitted entries and cast votes through the Moet & Chandon USA Facebook page, http://oscarcontest.moet.com, and a specially developed QR code was created for mobile users. The winning cocktail was chosen for its modern combination of flavours which served to highlight the Moet & Chandon Imperial…
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Sydney’s Secret Garden with Moet & Chandon
I’ve always been a big fan of escapist epicurean experiences. At the end of a hard week there is something quite liberating about stepping out of city mode and straight into the magical wonderland of Mistress Mary Afternoon Tea, courtesy of the fun-loving folk at Hilton Sydney’s award-winning Zeta Bar (named one of Best 50 bars in the world by Drinks International Magazine in 2010). Every Friday from 15 February starting at 6pm, Zeta’s outdoor terrace will be fancifully transformed into a magical Secret Garden, complete with manicured lawns and cool outdoor furniture – where you can indulge in sweet and savoury treats while listening to cool jazz as you…
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Pleasure Beyond Measure – Krug’s Seasonal Menu at Murano
A once in a lifetime chance to dine with living legends Olivier Krug and Angela Hartnett has to be the foodie equivalent of winning tickets to the VIP private party at the Superbowl. Due to technical issues with London Transport it took a car, a bus, two tube trains and finally a taxi to get me to the restaurant on time, but as soon as I pushed the discreet glass door to enter this oasis of calm, I literally melted into a world of taste sensations where time suddenly stood still. There is nothing quite like a Michelin starred chef opening her own front door and welcoming you with a…
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Monopole – ‘The Mean Machine’ Sydney Restaurant Review
Australia’s restaurant designer of the moment Pascale Gomes-Mcnabb (responsible for the recent make-overs at Claude’s and The Bentley Bar) and Bentley’s co-owners Brent Savage (chef) and Nick Hildebrandt (sommelier) are the award-winning A team behind the latest cool wine eaterie to open in Sydney’s trendy Potts Point. Neighbours from the apartment building across the street report that the guys were still putting final touches in the space last Wednesday – which was Monopole’s “soft opening” and media launch party day, but with typical antipodean aplomb the joint hasn’t stopped jumping ever since. This sleek and sexy 60 seater restaurant is filled to capacity daily from 6pm onwards. YES Monopole is…
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Time Out Dubai Young Chef of the Year 2012
In October 2012 Time Out Dubai launched its 2nd annual competition designed to uncover the best young culinary talent in the Emirates, which sees short-listed entrants and their front of house teams battle it out in front of Time Out readers in a high pressure live cook-off for 150 guests to determine the competition’s final result. The Young Chef of the Year event is supported by Emirates Culinary Guild and Miele and took place in the ballroom at The H Hotel Dubai on December 5. Five chefs, all aged 30 years old or younger, had to cook a four-course meal for a panel of judges, which included Uwe Micheel, president of…
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Bubbledogs – Harpers Restaurant Review
With Londoners in the grip of street food fever and creative industries in the East End growing at double the rate of the financial services sector (according to the latest report by The Centre for Economics and Business Research), one might expect a cool new champagne bar serving street food to be in uber trendy Shoreditch or Clerkenwell. But when you discover the neon lit door of this W1 saloon style joint on Charlotte St, leads to a keenly priced wine list of ecclectic grower champagnes (with at least half dozen in rotation available by the glass – from GBP6 to GBP13.50) accompanied by a wittily worded menu of hotdogs…
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The Magic of Mad Hatter’s Tea with Champagne Laurent Perrier
It was Queen Victoria (a very big fan of champagne herself) who first popularised the notion of “afternoon tea”. Back in the nineteenth century the monarch’s ladies in waiting would practically starve to death in the eternity that passed between the royal lunch and the royal dinner, so some took to making snacks in the late afternoon to keep their hunger at bay. Since the queen herself quite enjoyed this practise the tradition of “high tea” was born and Britons have been celebrating their precious afternoon tea ever since. Today there are many famous London landmarks that offer their own take on afternoon tea, most usually include sandwiches, scones and…
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Champagne: Uncorking NYE Event Guide at Zetter Townhouse, London
From left to right: Nyetimber English Sparkling wine (note: #notachampagnewine ), Champagne Tarlant, Champagne Bruno Paillard, Champagne Jacquesson, Champagne Lanson On Monday 19th November hosted in the gorgeous “Games Room” at London Hotel of the Year Zetter Townhouse in trendy Clerkenwell, Eventbrite’s UK crew brought together a diverse audience of event planners, bloggers and journalists to share their top industry insider tips on hosting or finding the best NYE events for 2012. Matching 4 amazing champagnes to delicious canapes by Bruno Loubet, award winning champagne journalist, educator and broadcaster Jayne Powell (aka Champagne Jayne) was on hand to guide guests on an accessible sensory journey through grower, boutique house and…
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The Perfume of Time – Champagne Lanson with Alain Ducasse
I’ve been in love with champagne since I was a teenager, but I now realise that aged champagne is wasted on the young. You really need a bit of life experience under your belt to have the emotional capacity to even register let alone embrace the many wonderful sensations provoked by an aged high quality champagne in mint condition. In my minds eye its like going from watching a flat 50inch screen TV to a multiplex cinema experience in 3D. My recent taste of Champagne Lanson 1976 in magnum, matched to an unusual creative dessert dish by Alain Ducasse at a high powered French press lunch in the heart of…
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Champagne and Food Matching – World’s Best Chefs & Sommeliers Chez Moet
In September 2012 a handful of journalists from France, Germany, UK, South America and Australia were invited to a very special champagne and food alchemy lunch at the historic Orangerie venue at Moet’s Epernay HQ, in order to witness some of the world’s best chefs and sommeliers collaborate in a light hearted fun champagne trade version of Master Chef. Each award-winning chef and sommelier dynamic duo was allocated their own group of 4 journalist ‘kitchen assistants’ as many fumbling hands made (sort of) light work helping each chef prepare their own special dish to match the soon to be launched Moet Grand Vintage 2004. Having initially abandoned my own award-winning…
with Champagne Jayne