BBC Saturday Kitchen presenter and prominent petrol-head, James Martin will be at classic car festival, Goodwood Revival this weekend as ambassador for Speyside single malt, The Singleton of Dufftown.
‘Hand-picked’ by Harvey Nichols
The idea of Handpicked is that head chef Jeremy Bloor from Harvey Nick’s OXO restaurant takes the press to visit one of his suppliers, in this case, his cheese one. Towny girl Anita Pati tags along avoiding cowpats and gets to eat a locally sourced al fresco lunch in a field with a load of random strangers.
Armagnac continues to celebrate 700 years – pairing with Indian food!
When invited to an event, celebrating 700 years of Armagnac production, I thought how bizarre – well who wouldn’t when the theme was pairing Armagnac with Indian cuisine from the Moghul region in the north west of India? It was absolutely an invitation I wasn’t going to turn down and I was glad I didn’t.
New All Bar One Bishopsgate
All Bar One have always been a company that strives to deliver what the customer wants so with the new All Bar One Bishopsgate they’ve expanded on their successful business model by offering innovative new dishes.
Harrods launch their Festival of British Food with Valentine Warner
Ably fronted by celebrity chef, Valentine Warner, Harrods launched their Festival of British Food, on Wednesday this week, the festival runs for a little over two weeks until 3 October. For the launch food writers were invited to lunch in The Terrace Bar on the fourth floor where we met and mingled with British food producers, myself clutching my flute of Knightsbridge, English sparkling wine.
‘Spirit in the sky’
I’m 40 meters above an asphalt parking lot on the South Bank of the Thames, literally eye-to-Eye with London’s famous Ferris wheel, strapped into a padded leather swivel chair that must be the tallest barstool in the world. There’s nothing but air beneath my feet—or, arguably, between my ears, given my current predicament. Ah, the lengths—and heights—I’ll go to for whisky.
Auberge du Lac. A star break wine tasting
Auberge du Lac, Hertfordshire’s only Michelin-starred destination restaurant situated on the Brocket Hall estate, is teaming up with one of Italy’s leading wine producers to launch the first of a series of extraordinary wine tasting events later this year.
The Cambria, Camberwell.
If anyone gives you lip about South London being a cultural wasteland and tells you the only food we specialise in is fried chicken, I suggest you take them down to The Cambria where it’s so good they’ll feel very much at home, wherever they’re from.
Cachaca tasting. Brazil in a bottle
Always ready to be moved by the Brazilian spirit, William Morris sambas into the Langham Hotel for a tutored tasting of some stand out Cachaca cocktails. Then he crawls out again.
Anjum Anand’s Thai noodle, Clawson paneer and vegetable curry
Anjum Anand shows you how to make a delicious curry using Clawson Paneer.