Chocolate Week Recipes

Don’t just celebrate Chocolate Week by cramming it into you mouth. Visit Salon du Chocolat London, and brush up on your baking skills with this chocolate and pear tart from GBBO’s John Whaite and a double-baked brownie by master patissiere Eric Lanlard. Feel free to lick the spoon. 

Bibendum does breakfast

The Bibendum Oyster Bar reopens in the ground floor of Michelin House on 4th November 2013, following a redesign. The relaunch will usher in a new all-day menu from Head Chef Matthew Harris, as well as the introduction of the Oyster Bar’s first-ever breakfast menu.

Feast on game at Cinnamon Culture

The range of this game festival menu is astonishing: rabbit, venison, quail, grouse, partridge, black boar and mallard – that is seven animals, all but one from Kent (the grouse comes from the moors of Yorkshire, of course). So, too, is Cinnamon Culture’s attention to flavour matching. Sauces, chutneys, salsas, naans – every dish comes with its own carefully chosen accompaniment. Joanna Biddolph licked her lips and her fingers throughout this excellent feast.

Utter Gastronomy

Fed up with food and drink writing competitions where the winners seem to be chosen for political motives rather than the ability to perform on the page, one of our contributors is launching his own contest…