On Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st May, Gin Mare is opening the ultimate escape from the city at London’s hippest hotel The Hoxton, Shoreditch. The Hoxton’s popular alfresco courtyard will be transformed into’The Gin Mare Mediterranean Garden’.

On Monday 20th April, Almeida is to host a charity dinner to raise money for children’s charity NSPCC. The North London restaurant, on Almeida Street, will embark on an evening of childhood nostalgia creating a three-course menu inspired by fairytales and folklore of the past and present.

Meantime Brewing Company, the Greenwich-based craft brewer, has announced its seasonal beer offering for 2015.

The garden at The Imperial has just reopend bringing a little bit of Provence style serenity to the Kings Road. Forget what you’ve come to expect of traditional restaurant & bar gardens, this space is more an extentsion of the interior of The Imperial with large communal tables and big sofas.

We get creative at Divertimenti with Comté cheese and create some gorgeous, family-pleasing recipes with private chef Laura Pope using this distinctive, heritage cheese 

A juicy Chablis, an earthy Pic St. Loup and a woody Rioja Reserva all pass muster when we have a taste of Sainsbury’s ‘Taste the Difference’ range of wines.

Nothing beats a traditional ginger biscuit with your cuppa – apart from perhaps ginger with a twist, as Danielle Woodward discovers