fino is a spanish restaurant that takes the tapas you may have encountered in other london spanish restaurants and elevates them to a superb, albeit pricey, level. the food at fino is simple but fabulously executed - every time i have visited it has made my toes curl with pleasure!

on monday i went for lunch with two friends so that we could take advantage of the “50% off the total food bill” offer that is currently offered via the toptable website.

this morning for breakfast we had authentic german pumpernickel. i received this in the post on friday, from florian, a food blogger in hamburg.

this was part of a parcel full of german goodies, that florian sent to me as part of european blogging by post. this is a food bloggers' event where you send, and receive a parcel from someone else who has a food blog. the match-making and all other arrangements were done by johanna at the passionate cook.

so, what was in the parcel apart from the pumpernickel?