Marmalade from the Wellington Arms, Hampshire

Chef Jason King and Simon Page (front of house) have just won best gastro pub Chef of the year as well as Chef of the year by the Good Food Guide. With a strong ‘grow / cook’ your own policy – their own chickens, their own veg, fruit and herbs and more they have created a real destination restaurant from their charming old pub

Taslisker and oysters at The Company Shed

The jewel in Mersea Island’s crown is arguably The Company Shed, the Haward family’s delightfully, wilfully eccentric restaurant. Prices are low, decor is stark and the conviviality is second-to-none. Especially when pared with some rather large measures of Talisker’s finest, a bracing trip on an oyster dredger and the tales of a seventh-generation oysterman.

Vivek Singh talks Cinnamon Soho

Vindaloo pork pie anyone? That’s a big fat yes from us here at Foodepedia, especially when it’s been cooked by Vivek Singh. He’s been West at Cinnamon Club and he’s been East with Cinnamon Kitchen, now he’s going central with Cinnamon Soho. We visited the building site to meet Executive Chef Vivek and find out more

Nosh Detox – a dose of cleansing

Now it’s no longer January, we’ve reallowed the ‘detox” word – a little spring cleaning of the gut, if you will. Anita Pati eagerly signed up to the Nosh Detox diet assuming there’d be nosh but the hardcore, four-day mainly liquid diet lost her five and a half pounds and gained her valuable dietary lessons…

Cornish Stargazy Pie Recipe

Stargazy Pie originates from the Cornish fishing village of Mousehole, and traditionally sees the heads and tails of fish poke through the piecrust as though ‘star-gazing’. Meanwhile Saffron Rolls have been traditionally baked in Cornwall on special occasions, such as anniversary feasts, and are as bright in colour – from the addition of saffron strands – as the Cornish sun.