Discover the new and unusual art of sherry and popcorn matching this December as Tio Pepe has teamed up with gourmet popcorn specialists Pop of Notting Hill to produce a first menu of its kind, available at sherry bars and restaurants throughout the UK.
New Cocktail Menu from Gaucho
As the winter seasons begin to set in, Gaucho introduces a new cocktail and bar menu for those cold, moody evenings. The new’Beef in the Bar’ menu is the perfect accompanient to the new cocktails. Choose from the Aberdeen Angus Air Cured Bresola, Beef & Chilli Salami and, Chimmichurri Cured Salt Beefall packed with intense beefy flavours.
Tonkotsu Selfridges review
The ramen was right on the button and it was a well priced lunchtime feed that had me energised and ready to face Oxford Street again. For shoppers who want to slurp and go, Tonkotsu has just what’s needed.
New Menu at Bistrot Bruno Loubet
Bruno Loubet and Head Chef David Fogelman launch new menu at Bistrot Bruno Loubet.
Bohemia’s Black Butter & Jersey Brandy Cheesecake
Bohemia restaurant was recently named one of the top 10 places in the UK to eat pudding by The Sunday Times Food List 2014. Head Chef Steve Smith and Head Pastry Chef Ellen de Jager share their indulgent recipe for 12 portions of Black Butter & Jersey Brandy Cheesecake.
La Tagliata
Some restaurants take the philosophy of becoming synonymous with a dish, a style, a cuisine, a theme or an ethos to an extreme – serving only a single dish. It’s a brave decision; anyone who nails their their colours to a particular mask had better know what they’re doing. Thankfully, La Tagliata – a small Italian restaurant that calls the rabbit warrens between Liverpool Street and Spitalfields Market home – does, at least where their main course is concerned.
La Brasserie at Sofitel, Gatwick Airport
Stuck in a hotel an evening before flying, Nadia Alkahzrajie finds that the Sofitel Gatwick is a restaurant that has wings.
Roxie Steak
The branch of Roxie in Clapham is a small blink and you’ll miss it sort of a place, with a clean, red-boothed interior and a friendly attentive staff. The menu is small too, the focus clear – meat, and plenty of it.
Slap bang in the middle of that A4 sheet is a half kilo of flesh with accompanying sides: The Beast. For £15 that’s a meat-feast rivalling Bodeans for value. The steak sits quietly to one side of the menu, perhaps overshadowed by its bigger redder meat platter brothers. Look closer though and you’re in for a surprise. Do your eyes deceive you? 7oz fillet steak for £13.95?! That’s either insanity or a misprint – thankfully it’s the former.
Nozomi
Nozomi is a Japanese restaurant, serving up (in their words)’contemporary Japanese cuisine’ and’eclectic cocktails’. While I don’t know nearly enough about Japanese food to give credence to the first statement – they served sushi, sashimi and tempura, what more do you want? – I can safely say the cocktails were eclectic.
Every spirit under the sun is on offer here, mixed with every fruit money can buy. Although we tried a few, including the watermelon bumbum and a fruit cocktail that floated in a small bowl of ice, my favourite was possibly the simplest – the Japanese Old Fashioned. That said, as well as whisky and sake, they had flavoured this with hints of caramel and a stick of ginger, so not that simple after all. A nice strong drink, that takes a good while to sip, the caramel gave a sweeter than usual taste, while the ginger left a medicinal aura. Mmm…medicinal.
London’s first’Non-Restaurant’ Restaurant, Deluxe, opens in Spitalfields
Deluxe, a limited-edition restaurant has opened in Ely’s Yard in Spitalfields, E1 for lunch and evening meals. Deluxe is a’non-restaurant’ restaurant open for four weeks only until 14 December, and will offer a menu that diners can easily create in their own homes when Deluxe closes its doors.