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Hello everybody out there in digital land !

Just creating a new website/blog and have no idea what I am doing yet so please bear with me !

Basically I am a student at Leiths School of Food and Wine and just completed my Intermediate term and passed my end of term Practical Exam last week. Now awaiting results of the Theory Test.

This leads us to the name of the website. For Health and Safety reasons all students are encouraged, or should or say drilled, to shout out “Hot Pan” as they move their latest creation form hob to bench or sink. This leads to 16 crazy bodies shouting and screaming “Hot Pan” as they run around like headless chickens trying to make service on time, and maybe even more importantly trying to avoid smashing into their fellow students thereby saving them from yet another kitchen based injury. It has become a shout of mirth and camaraderie as hollers of similar warnings such as “not very hot pan but still a bit warm ” echo around the kitchen. Hence I thought it an appropriate name for this blog !

I am what you may describe as a more mature student having worked in the city for almost 40 years but now desperate for a life and potential career change.

I eat out a lot and am visiting restaurants with my friends regularly so I thought – yet another – London centric restaurant review site is just what the world needs right now !

My reviews are to be coupled with regular reports from my experience of the Advanced Term at Leith’s which is starting on 6th April – this will at least differentiate my site in some way !

You may also find other stuff occurring here in a random way – maybe Travel, Music, Theatre, Photography – all things I dabble in and sometimes get stupidly excited about. However the main theme is Food and hopefully as I progress through Leith’s my own original recipes will start to appear too.

I will try to organise as much content as quickly as possible but starting with a review of a restaurant visited a few days ago – Aster at Victoria .

I hope you enjoy !