London Food & Wine Bloggers Meetup

Last week, I went along to the London Food and Wine Bloggers meetup in Battersea, over at The Westbridge. It was nice to meet a few new faces…fellow London restaurant reviewer A Girl Has to Eat was there, as well as Silver Spoon, who does a nice mix of restaurant reviews and food. Allotment blogger Food Urchin was extremely generous and picked me up at the bus stop and let me share a taxi back to the City with him at the end of the night. I also got a chance to catch up with Ben from Food & Drink, one of London's original restaurant bloggers, who I haven't seen in ages.

We had a lot of cheese, thanks to The Westbridge. And a lot of wine, thanks to the great folks over at Catavino. In my excitement over the different Madeiras on offer, I accidentally broke a glass (apologies to Westbridge host  Charlie). And well, when I sent myself home at 10 p.m. the place was still packed with food and wine dorks, so it was a highly successful evening. (And I mean "dorks" in the most affectionate sense of the term.)

This was all organized by Niamh by the magic of Ning, that social-networking site. So now we've got a London Food & Wine Ning, as well as a UK Food & Wine Ning. If you're a London or UK foodie and haven't joined our Nings already, you should! Here are the links…

Visit London Food and Drink Bloggers

Visit UK Food Bloggers Association

And because the world is a big place and there are a lot of restaurants to eat in that aren't in London, I went ahead and created a THIRD Ning for anyone around the world who specifically blogs and reviews restaurants…I don't know how we'll use it yet, but I'm sure a community of like-minded restaurant bloggers will have its uses eventually!

Visit Worldwide Restaurant Bloggers