Originally designed for the iPhone App, Berry Brothers and Rudd’s iPad gizzmo is a powerful, free tool featuring updated vintage charts, wine producer profiles and critics’ ratings and tasting notes…
Festival of Speed cocktails
Inspired by last weekend’s festival of speed at Goodwood, the people at Johnnie Walker, a sponsor of the festival, have created two cocktails that you might like to try at home.
The Bernard Series Basket Press Syrah
This rather lovely wine which comes from the Bellingham winery, which is more than 350 years old and located in Franschoek, a short distance from Cape Town. The Bernard Series Basket Press Syrah, 2007 is an excellent wine, a joy to drink and lovely on the palate, it is currently available from Sainsbury’s at £9.99 and worth every penny.
Taming the Toro Beast
Over a not so light lunch at ‘Apsley’s’ at The Lanesborough, the wine world’s literati congregated to taste the wines of Manuel Fariña from the not so known Spanish wine region, Toro…
Entree, Clapham
‘You know that you can see right up the girls’ skirts when they climb those stairs?’ asks P, pausing for a moment from sucking on her colourful cocktail. Really dear I hadn’t noticed. Well, actually of course I’d noticed, that’s why I was busy looking anywhere but in that direction. Being thrown out of a restaurant for noncing before the starter could be viewed as unprofessional behaviour in some quarters.
Garden Party Pub Quiz at The Avalon in aid of The Kivuli Trust
Life’s good. Make someone else’s life even better by joining The Avalon in Clapham for their first ever al fresco pub quiz in aid of The Kivuli Trust who work to ensure disabled children in East Africa have access to what we take for granted: food and drink in a safe, nurturing environment.
Re-Fuelling at An Architecture’Feastival’
Marking the final days of London’s 16-day long Festival of Architecture, a feast for 100 occurred in a decommissioned ‘Texaco’ petrol station in Clerkenwell…
Know your onions – Valentine Warner gives us four recipes using this modest English Vegetable
Acclaimed TV chef, author and ‘culinary explorer’ Valentine Warner has created four bespoke recipes for British Onions. These recipes perfectly encapsulate the versatility of the great British Onion as a key ingredient in cooking.
Galvin gives more -cigar terrace and Family Sundays
The recent hot weather has given Galvin Café a Vin in Spitalfields the chance to unveil their slick new cigar terrace while Galvin La Chapelle has added another string to its bow with a new family Sunday lunch complete with Sunday roast and traditional board games.
Fragrant Vietnamese Seabass
Summer is here and the hot weather makes me crave lighter meals with plenty of fresh fish and seafood. Vietnamese food is one of my favourite cuisines, bursting with flavour and wonderfully fresh aromatics, its healthy, delicious and perfect when you want to eat light.