We had weekend of

We had a weekend of food, some new places and one old favourite and as we haven’t done a food blog for quite some time it’s review time…

On Friday evening we had a takeaway from Noir as recommended by Amanda. We’d spotted this a few weeks ago, although according to the owner Denise they’ve been open since December – 0/10 for observation. We had jamaican jerk chicken, curried mutton with rice and beans and a roti and apart from the fact that it had cooled down quite a bit by the time we walked back home, it was all great and I look forward to trying some other dishes next time.

On Saturday, whilst we had the family visiting we had fish and chips from our favourite chippy, Bankers. We discovered Bankers shortly after moving to Brighton 5 years ago, and apart from the Rick Stein place in Padstow, it is some of the best fish and chips I’ve had.

On Sunday, after our family had left our friends Neela and Ste, and their friend Jana came to see us and we headed off to try a new Brazilian BBQ place, Caucau, that has only been open a few weeks. I’ve never eaten Brazilian food before, and to be honest we needed a Brazilian guide as we had no idea what to do with the farova (cassava flour). The service was good, and they did try and help us out, but sometimes you just need to be shown what to do :-).

Spotted on my way

AA truck

Spotted on my way home from work, an AA man repairing an AA lorry. There was an AA van behind him as well. Poor photo I’m afraid but it was taken on my phone through the car window.

was listening to Andy

I was listening to Andy Budd‘s Web 2.0 talk from last years d.construct conference this morning on my way in to work and followed up on a few of the sites he mentioned as being good examples of Web 2.0.

One of the sites, ononemap, looks like it would be a really useful aid to finding a house to buy, especially if you know the area you’re interested in as it overlays the properties for sale on top of google maps.

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Louis beach cafe beach

We played tourist yesterday, and decided to head out for dinner on a Saturday evening. Our first choice, Due South, was fully booked so we decided to wander along the seafront and into town. I spotted that Louis Beach cafe had a sign out saying that they now do Jamaican and Carribean food, so we thought we’d stop by and take a look. One portion of Jamaican Jerk chicken, one of ackee and saltfish and a side order of plantain and we were very happy people. They don’t have an alcohol license, but the Fortune of War is within staggering distance. We had a great evening, eating tasty food, looking out to sea.

In one of the

In one of the pull out sections from the Mail on Sunday this morning there was a column describing the Nike + iPod combination. Working with selected Nike + trainers and an iPod nano this gadget monitors your activity, and transmits it wirelessly to the nano. Judging by the website, you can then sync your run data with the nike+ website and monitor your progress.

Friday night sunset

sunset

Friday night was beautiful, so we headed down to the beach, collecting a curry from Nishat on the way and sat and watched the sunset over Hove. This is what living in Brighton is all about.