Fay Maschler's week in food: from Nigella-like airport bites to pretzels in Shoreditch

1. Breakfast, at American restaurant Coast to Coast at Stansted, of crushed avocado with mango, lime and chilli on sourdough toast — quite deliciously Nigella-like for an airport.

2. In Biarritz, at Restaurant Sissinou, dreamy ravioli of langoustines in a shellfish emulsion prepared by gifted chef Michel Cassou-Débat.

3. Thin slices of tête de veau — carpaccio is the description — rendered “tiêde” on a very hot plate at Pantxo bistro overlooking the river in Bayonne.

4. In the flat she rented in Biarritz, rillettes of seabass and smoked trout made by my pal Caroline Conran, who is writing a cookery book based on the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.

5. Nuts and pretzels at the Alpine Club in Shoreditch for the private view of mountain paintings and drawings by the late Robin Gabriel Collomb, father of Stephanie Ambridge — our neighbour in the Peloponnese.

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