If you fancy a read, here’s my round-up of other new London restaurants opened in 2017 (regularly updated with noteworthy openings). See 1118 photos from 4442 visitors about burgers, cheeseburgers, and mac & cheese. Call me old-fashioned, but comfort food – no matter how gratifyingly good – should never really involve this level of added effort.įerdi, 30 Shepherd Market, London W1J 7QN. Seen in this context, the London outpost of Ferdi ultimately proves a one-time novelty experience, with a fair bit of labour involved (from texting ahead for a table, to then jumping hoops over fellow diners just to get in and out of that table… ). Chalk it down to the ever-expanding list of new restaurants and bucket list-worthy desserts to try across town.
#Ferdi paris update
I’m compelled to update this post a few months later, as I’m yet to return – despite passing by on more than one occasion.
I left Ferdi with an intention to revisit ( I am fiendish about a good mac n cheese and those churros alone are quite a temptation). Seeing as we are in the midst of a very frosty winter though, an indulgent dousing of their hot chocolate sauce went quite some way in helping us warm up! Crisp-edged yet fluffy-centred, they were further elevated by the smooth richness of the homemade hazelnut dipping sauce (it was enough to render Nutella a thing of the distant past for us).Īs you might know by now, I also have a slight obsession with vanilla ice cream, a love which reached new bounds with the scoops of sunshine served up at Ferdi. Neither Shivani nor I have ever been known to pass up on dessert(s), and a cursory Google search (for reviews of Ferdi Paris) hinted that churros nucciola and vanilla ice cream were the ones to try. Crumbled hazelnuts and chives lent a sharp textural contrast to the crisp leaves, the only marring factor being that the salad was a few notches too salty. Meanwhile this vegetarian sought blissful comfort in a good ole-fashioned molten mac n cheese and fries, with baby hearts of lettuce making for a virtuous add-on. Simultaneously sweet and salty, it held its integrity remarkably well for a burger positively dripping with cheese – Shivani assiduously noted, proceeding to pin-point the different textures of onion she could taste. Ferdi did not like to label herself a feminist yet her work is associated with the struggle in the 1960s for sexual equality and freedom for women.įerdi has been included in many CoBrA, Pop and sculpture exhibitions in Europe and is in the permanent collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.For my lunch companion, Shivani, Mac Ferdi’s cheeseburger matched the hype surrounding it (Penélope Cruz famously declared it the best burger to be had in France). The sexual symbolism of these tactile sculptures such as Wombtomb, 1968, are overt and playful.
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This was the beginning of her Hortisculptures series large scale sculptures built around a wire mesh, which was covered with foam plastic and then finished with brightly coloured synthetic fur. During a trip to Mexico in 1964, Ferdi found inspiration that took her work in a new direction and began experimenting with sculptural forms. In 1956, they left Paris and moved to Amsterdam later moving to Castle Scheres in Baarlo, a small village in the Netherlands giving them both space to work and raise their family. Based on spontaneity and experiment, they drew their inspiration in particular from children’s drawings, primitive art forms and from the work of Paul Klee and Joan Miró.
Ferdi made striking jewellery and compositions from welded iron inspired by studying the symmetrical body of insects.īoth her and her husband were members of CoBrA (1948 – 1951) formed in Paris by expat artists from Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam including Karel Appel and Constant. Photos at Dinand par Ferdi - Champs-Élysées - 37 tips Planning a trip to Paris Foursquare can help you find the best places to go to.
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There she met her partner Shinkichi Tajiri, the Japanese American sculptor, who taught her how to weld. 1927 Arnhem - d. 1969 Baarlo, The Netherlands) left for Paris in 1950 to develop her interest in fine art attending sculpture workshops run by the sculptor Ossip Zadkine.
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