Marmite Pop-Up Shop Launch Party and the Marmite Cereal Bar

Marmite... I don't think there's any question about it, people either love or hate it and we have to give much credit to the marketing people at Marmite for ingraining this on our minds. Even more credit to those behind the seemingly infinite number of merchandising that has been born out of that dark brown, sticky paste with its distinctive extremely salty flavour. Marmite is perhaps a good example of umami.

The Marmite Pop-Up Shop opened under the Christmas lights of Regent Street on the 3rd November with the launch party just over a week later. How do you make marmite glamourous. You can't. But you can have fun with it. Give me another Love It Or Hate It Poire William liquor Martini served with delicate Marmite crème foam. The shop offers over 100 Marmite branded products up until the first week of January. Just in time for Christmas...

I LOVE Marmite. I have it on hot buttered toast, with pasta with butter and Parmigiano-Reggiano, in congee, and even marmite soup (one and half heaped teaspoons of Marmite with boiling water in a mug). So, the idea of a Marmite Cereal Bar sounds somewhat appealing. Made with oats, wheat and rice, rather than masking the taste of cardboard with fruit like other cereal bars, there is obviously a hearty fullsome kick of Marmite. Certainly a good alternative to sugary cereal snacks... Nutri Grain quelle horreur!

Marmite Cereal Bars

The Marmite Pop Up Shop

Marmite Canapés - Roast Pigeon with Marmite and Caraway Chutney on a Marmite, Beetroot and Chilli Risotto

The Marmite Pop Up Shop

The Marmite Pop Up Shop Launch Party

The Marmite Cereal Bar is available in packs of 6 from Morrisons and Waitrose, and other outlets from January 2010.

Marmite Pop-Up Shop, 82 Regent Street, Quadrant Arcade, London, W1B 5HH

Konstam at the Prince Albert, Kings Cross, London

I recently met Oliver Rowe from Konstam and I never got round to writing up a full post about dining at his restaurant. Konstam at the Prince Albert famously claims that it sources 80% of its produce from inside the M25. It's far too long ago to think about a retrospective post but I can say that whilst we had a good time it took almost 45 minutes to get our main course. We were the first table at dinner service that night and there no more than 10 covers by the time we got our main. We did not have an entrées. The pork chop was beautifully cooked. So the recent blagger banquet auction of a chance to cook Pork Belly with Oliver Rowe was a big win for sure. Worth a revisit.

Here are some photos taken with my late Panasonic DMC TZ-5... it was a great point and shoot camera...










If you got this far, perhaps you might be interested in checking out my flickr set here.

Konstam at the Prince Albert, 2 Acton Street, London WC1X 9NA
020 7833 5040 princealbert@konstam.co.uk

Blaggers Banquet, Sunday 15th November 2009

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On Sunday 15th November, I took photographs for the Blaggers Banquet and here's a write up by tehbus. All the published photos can be found here but a quick pick of 20 of those photos can be found here. I was very honoured to take photos for the event and it was great to meet lots of great bloggers and guests alike all contributing towards a great cause. I am happy for the photos to be used and shared to non-commercial purposes such as on blogs on the understanding that you use the original photos with link back to the original image and credit to me as "Photograph by Mark N - www.foodbymark.com". Clearer information on this Creative Commons Licence can be found here. If you have any other uses for them please contact me here (you will need to correct the email address).

Some write ups after the event are already up, please do check them out:
Smell My Kitchen
Urban Foodie
Gin and Crumpets
Gourmet Chick