Must-dos for 2004: eats

10 April 2012
Here are our must-eats for the new year!

Get a taste of Morrocco
La Mamounia, the Marrakesh hotel which was the scene of much Seventies decadence, legendary fashion moments and was a favourite with Churchill, arrives at The Lanesborough, for a sumptuous Moroccan food festival.

La Mamounia's chefs are the world's best at North African haute cuisine.

Led by the multiple-award-winning head chef Boujemaa Mars, they will take over the running of the kitchen from Tue 24-Sat 28 Feb, and are to be assisted by belly dancers and an Andalucian orchestra.
Hyde Park Corner, SW1 (020-7259 5599).
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Have a traditional ice-cream
Pop out for an ice-cream. Foubert's is one of London's last surviving Italian icecream makers.

The ice-cream is made on the premises to the Lodico family's traditional recipes, and the house speciality is a truly amazing tutti-frutti, full of large chunks of superb glacé fruit imported from Italy. Well worth a trip.
Foubert's, 162-170 Chiswick High Road, W4 (020-8995 6743).
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Take tea at Yauatcha
Hakkasan's Alan Yau opens his Soho dim sum and tea house early this year. With a no reservations policy, it promises to be the beautiful and egalitarian Soho haunt of 2004.

A pastry chef from Paris will bring an Oriental twist to the patisserie and Tim Yip (costume designer for Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon)will dress the staff.

Champagne, of course, will be available to drink with your tea and the dim sum will be hard to beat.

Yauatcha will launch in late Feb to early Mar and will be open from 8am to 11.30pm.
Yauatcha, 15-17 Broadwick Street, W1.
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Do Dim Sum
Wander into Chinatown for a dim sum lunch. These elegant snacks are only served between noon and 5pm, and there are two Hong Kong-style trolley restaurants close to Gerrard Street.

As the heated trolleys circulate, you choose what you want: each little steamer contains three or four pieces and costs between £2 and £4.

Eat as much or as little as you want before venturing out into the Chinese supermarkets for serious food shopping (bargains include giant bottles of superior soy sauce, chilli oil and ready-made dumplings to cook at home).

For trolley dumplings: Chuen Cheng Ku, 17 Wardour Street, W1 (020-7437 1398) and New World, 1 Gerrard Place, W1 (020-7734 0396).
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Go for Pie and Mash
Visit F. Cooke for the authentic taste of the East End. If you think that jellied eels may be a dish too far, opt for pie and mash.

Cooke's pies are much better than you would imagine (especially when you take into account how cheap they are) and they are gloriously filling.
F. Cooke, 150 Hoxton Street, N1 (020-7729 7718). Also 9 Broadway Market, E8 (020-7254 6458).
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