Felix Bar & Bistro: the quintessentially perfect passionfruit soufflé

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Almond & white chocolate parfait with roasted strawberries

So, my night at Felix Bistro started off rather oddly. I arrived at 7.30pm to meet some friends for dinner. I knew I was the first to arrive, so I thought it was a little odd when the maitre d’ said that my friends were already there. Ok, you know, maybe they did get there before me. Apparently superhuman speed and power is not beyond all of us. He led me to a table, where a couple were having a lovely, quiet, romantic meal.

“Here are your friends,” the maitre d’ announced and pulled out a seat for me.

I looked at the couple, who had paused mid-shovelling-food-into-their-faces. They stared at me.

Awkward. (And why does this keep happening to me?)

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Bill’s ricotta hotcakes: some (awesome) things never change

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Bill Granger is famous the world over. So famous he is, in fact, that when word got out that a Bill’s opened in London’s Covent Garden, our hearts skipped a beat thinking that the famous ricotta hotcakes had migrated their way to the northern hemisphere. But… much to the huge disappointment of all, Bill’s in Covent Garden was not an off shoot of Bill Granger’s famous Bill’s restaurants, but just another café, albeit, I have to admit, also a rather good one.

But there were no ricotta hotcakes.

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