NEWS: Food Coma: It's On!

CULTURE: Food Coma: It's On!

I'm literally just off the plane from London having just spent the last week there celebrating the release of the movie Anvil: The Story Of Anvil. My friend Sacha wrote and directed it and it's blowing up in the UK. It comes out here April 10th. You have to see it. It's an amazing story about two guys that made a pact at 14 to rock forever and they refuse to give up that dream in the face of the most brutal situations a band can deal with. It's truly an amazing film and it will move you. For more info go to AnvilMovie.com.

On the food front I didn't get to do too much exploring as I was on a crazy schedule but I did get to go to Nobu with Pearl on Valentine's Day and it was as usual, flawless. They were serving these martini's that were excellent and I got the recipe that I will share with you at the end of the article. Invite a lady/man over and pull these out of your ass and they'll definitely do the trick.

We spent two days in Glasgow with our friends Andy and Fiona who just had a baby. Fiona owns a gourmet delicatessen/restaurant called Heart Buchanan and they make the best BLT on the planet. It's doing them a disservice to only talk about the BLT as they have a whole shop full of incredible food, but that BLT is from another planet!! Andy is also a great cook and he makes the French onion soup from Les Halles in NYC better than they do. We had a great dinner of that aforementioned onion soup and roast chicken at their house and spent the night plowing through Italian and Spanish wine. I don't get to eat in like that very often and when I do it makes me realize how much I miss that experience, food, wine, friends and fucking hilarity 'til sunrise. Can't beat it.


Above: The best BLT on the planet.

We got back to London and had a day to walk around the food halls at Harrods. If you've never done that, you must. They have everything you can ever imagine that can be eaten and it's all the best quality. I always buy the Salami di Tartufo (truffle salami) and I also bought a Spanish Chorizo. They vacuum pack those suckers and then you pray that customs doesn't snatch them from you. What a bummer that would be to think of some customs agent eating a big fat truffle salami sandwich, or worse, throwing it out!! I got'em in and I'm eating them as I type.

Of course I drank pints of bitter to excess. Before we went to London we were in NY for a week. Anthrax played an event for Red Bull called Snow Scrapers. They built a ten-story ramp for Shaun White and others to hurl themselves off and then we closed the event. It was cool to play with NYC as our backdrop and to get a minute out of the studio. We had Chuck D come up and do "Bring The Noise" with us. Chuck is the man.

In NY I met up with my buddy Joe Bastianich (he's Mario Batali's partner in all the restaurants) at his restaurant Del Posto for a drink and that drink turned out to be a 1949 Chateau LaTour. Jo had some wine collector buddies in the house eating and they offered it to us. When the sommelier brought the glasses over Joe asked him if it was "on" and the reply was, "It's on." I've never had anything even close to a 60 year old world class Bordeaux like this before and I savored it. I'm basically ruined on red wine now. How do I drink anything else after that? Stupid old Bordeaux! Why hast thou ruined me???? It was by far the best thing I've ever drank.

After getting my mind blown by the LaTour I had dinner next door at Joe's new spot The John Dory. It's a casual fish restaurant with A-list fish. If you go make sure you get the grilled octopus with celery, fennel and bottarga and the seared squid stuffed with chorizo. We had a group of five and we almost ordered everything on the menu and everything was great!

We hit the Spotted Pig while we were in NY as well and I'd have to say it's become my favorite place to go out. The combination of the food, killer hand-pulled beers and atmosphere make it the perfect place for me. It's the perfect pub. Get the dnudi and the 'devils on horseback' and six pints of Old Speckled Hen. Do it.

Cheers,
Scott
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Scott Ian is SuicideGirls' monthly Food Coma columnist. Click HERE for more of his musing on sustenance and libations. He plays guitar for revolutionary metal band Anthrax and also for Pearl.

The food stalls at Harrods are spectacular.

Old Speckled Hen? Not so much.

I can't wait to try that Love Martini, hopefully I'll get it right

My mouth is sopping wet reading this so early in the morning. Most of my friends in Australia were actually from Glasgow, i could always tell a difference in their accent compared to the other scotts around.

I must see the Anvil movie

Jesus, Old Speckled Hen... that's a blast from the past!

I used to drink that stuff years ago in a Bikers pub near our art college! Ringwood Old Thumper and Old Peculiar were good ones too!

How does that travel over to the States, it tastes damn fine over here in England!
If you're ever down this way in Cornwall, check out the Skinners Brewery..... they make some fine Cornish ales!

When you bringing Anthrax back to the UK?

Lovin' the Food Coma!

This column came just in time. By the way, I suggest the Figeac '71, I remember tasting one ages ago...

And someone needs to reactivate Scott's account here

Old Speckled Hen is great stuff. Give Wexford Irish Cream Ale a try if you haven't.

Amiright?

Squid and chorizo. Perfect.

You're high.

I drank Old Speckled Hen in Bath about six years ago and it is probably the only beer I've never finished. I guess it could've been dirty lines.

That BLT looks amazing.

Yep, that is one goddamn delicious-looking BLT. Another acronym comes to mind: SILF.

Great article. That sandwich looks awesome.