The latest project from Bompas & Parr - The British Menu Archive.
Crazy Food Architects, Culinary Maestros and Jelly Mongers Extraordinaire Bompas & Parr have launched their latest project and it's going to be massive!
The team are calling on people around the UK to contribute to help them build a National Treasure in the form of the British Menu Archive.
No menu is too old, too new, too small, or two large to be included and Bompas & Parr want to see any menus that people have spotted to help paint a picture of the changing landscape of British food and drink over the decades. Contributions can be physical or in the form of photos.
The archive will be launches at Andaz Liverpool Street on the 28th of May 2014 and one of the features will be a feast consisting of a selection of courses from the submitted menus!
There is a great prize up for grabs, with the very best menu submitted winning a table for six at the launch event! Everyone else will be rewarded with eternal glory and immortality with all menus held in the archive for the nation.
Find out more on the British Menu Archive website.
Menus can be sent to the address below, with everyone who submits one successfully getting fully credited.
British Menu Archive
Bompas & Parr
17 Rushworth Street
London SE1 0RB
Alternatively, scans of menus can be emailed to:
britishmenuarchive@bompasandparr.com
I'll be sure to keep an eye out for any gluten free menus on my travels to add to the archive.
Back in the summer of 2012 Bompas & Parr created a brilliant 'London Landmark in Cake Creations' Crazy Golf course on the roof of Selfridges on Oxford Street! The course harked back to the early 1930's when the department store had a Miniature Golf course as part of the rooftop garden.
The 2012 edition was a brilliant idea and a tricky, but fun 9-hole layout. We played a number of tournaments up there and I became the Crazy Golf with Bompas & Parr Champion in August 2012.
The prizes - in addition to the MASSIVE minigolf trophy - I received for my June play-off win included two Bompas & Parr recipe books. One for Cocktails and one for Jelly! The cocktail book has a very good recipe for making your own pork crackling snacks.
.JPG "With my winnings of a BIG minigolf trophy and two of the Bompas & Parr books for victory in the June Crazy Golf play-off at Selfridges London in 2012") |
| With my winnings of a BIG minigolf trophy and two of the Bompas & Parr books for victory in the June Crazy Golf play-off at Selfridges London in 2012 |
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+-+Copy.JPG "Mini Crackers for a crackers minigolfer - The pharmacy guidelines and doctor's orders stuck on my prescribed packet of medicine (Glutafin Mini Crackers)")
+-+Copy.JPG "The Savoury Shorts on prescription with the big guidelines sticker from the pharmacy")
.JPG "The Hindernis Billard layout at the Askoe Wien Wasserpark in Vienna, Austria (March 2010)")
.JPG "Western Putting (and Pit-Pat) in Littlehampton (April 2012)")
+Minigolf.JPG "Crazy Snooker cue and carry-case in hand and ready to play Pit-Pat")
+Minigolf.JPG "A view of the Pit-Pat course in Littlehampton")
+Minigolf.JPG "Emily sets up the skittles on table 1!")
+Minigolf.JPG "Emily lines-up a shot on hole 2")
+Minigolf.JPG "Hole / Table 2")
+Minigolf.JPG "Emily plays up a ramp obstacle")
+Minigolf.JPG "Western Putting on Banjo Road in Littlehampton is also home to a Swedish Felt type of Minigolf course and a grass Putting Green")
+Minigolf.JPG "Emily shoots the green ball over a little ramp and onto a bigger one")
+Minigolf.JPG "The Pipe hole - often my nemesis on Eternit Miniature Golf...")
+Minigolf.JPG "...and no different on Pit-Pat as it was my worst hole!")
+Minigolf.JPG "The specialist Pit-Pat balls in their little red carry-case")
+Minigolf.JPG "The green Pit-Pat ball is a bit of a dead ball")
+Minigolf.JPG "The bouncy yellow Pit-Pat ball")
+Minigolf.JPG "The slightly squidgy purple Pit-Pat ball")
+Minigolf.JPG "The Red one")
.jpg "Vozars has a great range of cakes and pies to eat-in, or take-away. The WAGfree Black Forest Gateaux (bottom left) is a favourite of mine")
.jpg "My big lunch of a Chicken strips, rocket and chilli mayo sandwich; the Hand cut chunky chips with Vozars mayo; and a Celia gluten free lager")
.jpg "Vozars has had a refurbishment since my last visit in October 2013 and looks great. The food is still as excellent as ever")
+-+Copy.JPG "Richard Gottfried playing hole 13 of the Splash Point Mini Golf course in Worthing during the BMGA British Masters")
+-+Copy.JPG "Emily putting on hole 4 of the Splash Point Mini Golf course in Worthing during the BMGA British Masters Hole-in-One Challenge")
.jpg "A Bar Billiards table in Newcastle-upon-Tyne")
.jpg "An out-of-order Bar Billiards table in Newcastle-upon-Tyne")
.JPG "Playing the very well maintained Bar Billiards table in the pub of the Seaview Hotel in East Preston, near Littlehampton")
.JPG "John 'Big Al' Moore scores while Richard shoots on the Bar Billiards table at the Marine View Hotel in Worthing")
.JPG "A view of the Sharksville Adventure Golf at Littlehampton's Harbour Park")
.JPG "Sharksville Adventure Golf is open")
.JPG "Emily holes out on hole one of the Sharksville Adventure Golf")
.JPG "Playing hole one of the Sharksville Adventure Golf")
.JPG "Emily on hole two of the Sharksville Adventure Golf")
.JPG "The tricky uphill hole three at Sharksville Adventure Golf")
.JPG "Emily on hole four of the Sharksville Adventure Golf in Littlehampton")
.JPG "Emily on hole five at Sharksville Adventure Golf")
.JPG "On hole six at Sharksville Adventure Golf")
.JPG "Emily on hole seven of the Sharksville Adventure Golf course")
.JPG "Emily on the ninth hole at Sharksville Adventure Golf")
.JPG "The final hole at Sharksville Adventure Golf in Littlehampton")
