A glass full of really good Champagne will transport your mood to a better place. Alan Kingsbury explores the different cuvées of a brand that deserves more attention.
The Corner Room, Bethnal Green, Review
The restaurant at the front of the hotel is full of smart people, New New Labour at lunch one could say. And as if that wasn’t enough trendy dining for one place, upstairs at the back of the building is The Corner Room.
Tio Pepe festive fino and popcorn matching
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.