When pairing up with hearty roasts and the mushroom and game character of the season, you can do no better than to explore among the Pinot Noirs. Good value can be found on the New World shelves for under £10 and a wide variety of styles are produced in Chile, California and New Zealand.
Goumet Burger Kitchen Celebrates 10 Years
Kiwi fusion guru and all round nice guy, Peter Gordon attended the 10th Birthday event at GBK, flipping burgers and making small talk with the rest of the team. He was part of the original gang of Antipodeans who felt that London needed a burger joint as awesome as everything else they loved about the city.
Giraffe gets Behind Movember
Giraffe restaurants nationwide are getting in on the Mo action, calling all Mo Bros to grow a moustache to help raise funds for men’s health, specifically prostate cancer, with their new ‘Show your Mo’ campaign.
Gin O’Clock published by Queen UK
The Queen [of Twitter] has published extracts from her diaries, revealing her surprisingly candid thoughts about the events of the day and showing that the only way to survive the nonsense we have to put up with from leading public figures is by taking hefty slugs of Bombay Sapphire gin, with or preferably without tonic. Joanna Biddolph went along to meet her at the official launch.
Chateau Boundary Bordeaux nigh
Foodepedia loved the last Chateau Boundary wine night, so we recommend wine lovers leg it over to Conran’s classy basement for the upcoming Bordeaux night with Diarmid O’Hara from Corney & Barrow
The Rosendale in London’s West Dulwich
West Dulwich or West Norwood? Some blurring of the boundaries apart, The Rosendale is definitely in South London so that’s a big plus already for local allotmenteer Nick Harman
Cooking without Recipes: Philip Dundas
Cooking without Recipes, by Phillip Dundas, as the name suggests, contains no recipes. Instead, it provides a manual for confidence in the kitchen, with information on techniques,food shopping, and cooking various ingredients. Beautifully illustrated, the writing possesses a lightness of touch that never feels patronising.
South Lodge Hotel, Horsham, East Sussex
South Lodge Hotel in Horsham is part of the Exclusive Hotels Collection and as we found out, it is pretty darn exclusive with a fantastic Michelin-starred kitchen
Win vouchers for L’atelier des Chefs cooking school worth £500
The ethical hot drinks brand is challenging Britain to create the perfect dessert recipe to pair with a cup of coffee for the chance to win £500 worth of vouchers for gourmet London cooking school L’atelier des Chefs. The winning recipe will also star in Cafédirect’s limited edition Coffee and Dessert Matching Cookbook.