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Chino Latino, Park Plaza Riverbank Hotel, London

Chino Latino is an excellent restaurant, we enjoyed our meal there and the ambience enormously. Situated on the south bank of the Thames, diagonally opposite the Houses of Parliament, it is a little away from central London’s restaurant land, but it is well worth making the effort to seek out.

Babbo, London

Dion Bar Restaurant, St Paul's Churchyard, London

Delima Malaysian Restaurant, London

The Greenhouse, London

Aubrey, South Kensington, London

El Pirata Detapas, Westbourne Grove, Paddington

Enoteca Turi, Putney, London

Profile, Soho, London

Bella Vista, Blackheath,London

Kiasu, London

Adagio, Soho, London

Viet Grill, Hackney, London

Kenza, Devonshire Square, London

Empress of Sichuan, Soho, London

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Courvoisier’s Café du Pique-Nique: an early taste of summer!

This event will see The Future Gallery transformed into a vast indoor picnic area. While dismal London weather prevails outside, visitors can kick back, remove their shoes and enjoy their own summery picnic.

St Patrick's Day at Aubrey's

Aubrey in the Irish-owned Kensington Hotel have put together a traditionally Irish 3 course set menu to be served for lunch and dinner on St Patrick's Day, priced at just £35.

London’s oldest french restaurant starts saturday lunch service for the first time in 50 years

Mon Plaisir is London’s oldest French restaurant at over half a century, a rare entity in London’s fast-changing restaurant scene. In 1942 Charles de Gaulle dined at Mon Plaisir, and for generations this family-run institution has been serving authentic French cuisine and now, after 50 years, they will be open for lunch service on a Saturday.

Pizza for breakfast and it's free!

Pizza East staff will be dishing out samples of their 'Rollys' outside the tea building in Shoreditch on the mornings of on Monday 8, Tuesday 9 and Wednesday 10 March, enabling East London trendies to sample the goods.

St Patrick’s Day celebration at Bentley’s

Richard Corrigan’s iconic Irish seafood restaurant is the venue for this year’s St Patrick’s Day celebrations. Harking from County Meath, Ireland, Richard knows the vital ingredients for both a St Patrick’s Day meal as well as entertainment.

Out of The Kitchen and Onto The Plane

Svelte in a sharp suit rather than chef’s whites, Catalan chef and self-titled culinary ‘agitator’, Ferrán Adriá chose London’s baroque Spanish embassy to announce details of the first European Congress of Tourism and Gastronomy...

Two Michelin Stared Chef, Pino Lavarra, joins the Brunello Restaurant team at The Baglioni Hotel for 5 evenings only.

Throughout 2010 Brunello is planning a series of special, fine dining events planned to delight the most demanding gourmets. For the first in this series of seasonal guest chef events, much acclaimed chef Pino Lavarra of Rossellini’s at Palazzo Sasso, in Ravello on the Amalfi Coast, where he holds two Michelin stars, will present dishes from his menu.

Six courses, six spirits, three nights

The Providores restaurant and Sipsmith Spirits have announced an exclusive three night pop up restaurant at the Sipsmith distillery in Hammersmith. Only 90 people will have the chance to experience The Providores & Prudence soirees, so if you are interested and intrigued you will need to book early to avoid disappointment.

The White Swan launches monthly wine dinners

Tom and Ed Martin are launching a series of monthly wine dinners at their modern British pub, The White Swan, on Fetter Lane, EC4. Taking place on the last Friday of every month at 7.30pm, with the next events on the 26th February and the 26th March, wine enthusiasts can look forward to a fun and interactive evening learning about wine and matching different vintages to dishes that showcase the fi

Holi Menu at the Cinnamon Club

London’s modern Indian restaurant, The Cinnamon Club, is illuminating Westminster as it plays host to the most colourful festival in the Hindu calender, Holi with a five-course tasting menu from 1st - 6th March 2010.

Food

Five a day, the Spanish way

After hearing about these remarkable fruits, it was time to taste some tapas, specially created by Ibèrica Head Chef Santiago Guerrero, all using Spanish raspberries and strawberries. Not necessarily an easy task, given that these fruits aren't renowned for pairing with meat and fish - but we had open minds.

Gelato Mio, indulgent Italian ice cream

Gelato Mio’s main focus is the production and sale of their house made ice creams and sorbets. However, as well as being an ice cream parlour, Gelato Mio in Notting Hill is a coffee shop, which has a huge amount of seating for their customers to relax and enjoy a coffee and biscuits or a lovely velvety ice cream from their range, or both.

Buffalo Mozzarella from Campania – it should be eaten fresh!

24th February had been augustly designated as European day of Mozzarrella di Bufala Campana PDO. Its significance is to recognise and protect the provenance of this white soft cheese made from Buffalo milk in the Campania region of Italy.

Kick your high salt intake with Kikkoman's umami effect

Soy sauce delivers all the flavour of salt, but at up to half the quantity thanks to the umami effect. This is good news as in the West we all apparently eat too much salt. At the Westminster Kingsway Catering College we find out more, come close to being asphyxiated by a radio host, eat a fine student made meal and learn how to make the perfect gravy.

Drink

Get into the Spirit of Film with Ketel One Vodka

Ultra-premium Ketel One vodka has partnered with Future Shorts to present The Spirit of Film - a celebration of the skills and craftsmanship of short film-making, in selected venues around the UK.

The whisky the angels drink

Manager’s Choice is Diageo’s first complete collection of single-cast Scotch whiskies. Aimed at collectors and connoisseurs it’s been chosen over time, and by the expert managers, to represent each of the 27 distilleries authentic whisky signatures. Unique and delicious they make the perfect present for the man who has everything and a special date coming up.

Bring on the Bordeaux wines

We all want to drink responsibly but that doesn't just mean simply not getting hammered. We should all be drinking wines that are local, so as to cut the carbon footprint, and wines that are well priced, to cut the shopping bills. Welcome to Bordeaux.

Yang mei juice - devastatingly good for you

One hour after consuming my promo bottle of Organic Yang mei Juice, I think I may have OD'd on the stuff. My vision seems super sharp, there's a slight pressure behind my temples and I am feeling oddly energised. The keyboard is floating about a centimetre off the desk and there's a buzzing noise inside my ears. All I need now is the bats to descend and it's Fear and Loathing in Carnaby Street.

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Gail's Hot Cross Buns - apparently delicious

You leave the office for half an hour and when you come back you're told there's been a delivery of Gail's Hot Cross buns in your absence. You ask where they are and everyone stares resolutely at their screens while discreetly brushing crumbs off their keyboard. Is this a sackable offence? It should be.

A man for all seasonal food. We talk and eat with Jose Pizzaro of Tierra Brindisa Soho

I love Jose Pizzaro; although this may be the beer goggles talking. No, I think it’s a serious crush. The man is ‘keeping it real’ with his Tierra Brindisa; simplicity and quality and a changing menu. The train spotters have moved on, chasing the next new thing, now his restaurant has proper customers, regulars.

Creating the cupcake - we taste a few cookery courses to see which is the icing on the top

Apparently name-dropping the ‘cupcake revolution’ is the fashion equivalent of extolling the maxi-dress: very 2008 darling. But the cupcake trend is still on a [parchment baking] roll – except that in 2008 we were buying ‘em, now we’re making ‘em. Enter the cupcake class – tutorials for the disenfranchised office-worker, wondering if they too could clear four grand a month.

Brunello at The Baglioni Hotel blows us away

Last night we had a meal that is only available for three days more. Pino Lavarra, executive chef of the two Michelin starred Rossellini’s restaurant at Palazzo Sasso in Ravello on the Amalfi coast, is at Brunello at The Baglioni Hotel as part of a year long exchange of chefs.

The magic of mushrooms. Recipes and more

They get a bit of a bad press do mushrooms. There are the naughty ones that make you see pretty colours, the other ones that turn you into a berserk Viking bent on rape, and perhaps some light pillage if time allows, and then there are the ones that kill you stone dead.

My Dining Room is now open to the public

Recently opened following a refurbishment and a change of name, from 'The Farm', My Dining Room is the latest gastro pub to open in fulham. Together with other media types I was invited along, following its recent launch, to sample some of the dishes from their menu andI was favourably impressed with what I tasted.

Seeds, dirt and a bitter taste

Organic food giant ‘Seeds of Change’ recently launched a new range of cooking sauces to accompany their ‘Great flavours, well grown” campaign. The sauces were used in recipes served up by organic enthusiast Arthur Potts Dawson, executive chef at Acorn House. After sampling the food we were also treated to a ‘dirt tasting’ demonstration by Garden Organic’s Director of Operations, Bob

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Food Foundations

Douglas Blyde ventured to Leith’s School of Food and Wine, Hammersmith, to meet acting Managing Director, Jenny Stringer.

Befriending Mr. Dimbleby

Over lunch on Carnaby Street, Douglas Blyde resolves an online spat with Henry Dimbleby, co-founder of Leon restaurants.

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Midnight Feasts

Midnight Feasts conjures up a misty-eyed nostalgia, which makes for an enjoyable wallow in memories, but more than that, there are ideas for everyone in here, from the novice to the more accomplished cook: and better still, 100% of the profits go to Springboard for Children.

Seasonal Spanish Food - Jose Pizzarro

A professional chef, and the man behind the successful Brindisa tapas kitchens, Jose Pizzaro knows his stuff. As Spain continues to culinarily crush all before it, thanks to the El Bulli factor, Jose still has his heart set on the simple honesty of tapas type meals.

Food presenting secrets - Cara Hobday and Jo Denbury

Do people laugh when you put food on the table? Are you ashamed of how your leeks look? Fear not timid dinner party person for here, coming at you like an embossed invitation to Abigail’s Party, is Food Presenting Secrets featuring all the Creative Styling Techniques you never knew you needed.

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I’ve got a lovely bunch of Carrots

Before I went to Sicily, I thought of tomatoes, peppers, aubergine, artichokes and mushrooms as Italian vegetables. Carrots were the wrong color for my red, white and green Italian palette. But, since my daily trips to the market, I have changed my mind.

After Eight mint chocolate chip & ginger meringue ice

After Eight mint and vanilla cheesecake

Something very tasty and wickedly dark

Toad in the hole

Last week my recipe came from the exotic far flung reaches of Southeast Asia and this week, I am bring it back to ‘Good Old Blighty’ with one of the nation’s dishes, Toad in the hole. Yorkshire pudding batter enveloping as many plump and juicy sausages that you can fit into the dish, with a generous ladleing of meatylicious gravy.

Chocolate Chip Date Nut Cake

After yearning for her childhood treat ten Carole Egbert sees a recipe for a chocolate, date cake in a newspaper column. "With minor adjustments, this is the cake I have baked for many parties. I always use a Bundt pan and slather the cooled cake with unsweetened, heavy cream that has been beaten to stiff peaks.