The Chef’s Table

Situated above a grocery store/delicatessen of the same name, you enter the restaurant through the shop. The restaurant itself is a small informal space with some five tables and a counter at which we sat, where you look onto the chefs at work – it almost feels like you are in the kitchen itself. This is certainly a destination restaurant if you are in the Cotswolds.

The Waffle House

Catching jasmine scents beside a stream, I sipped a thick malty milkshake from a narrow straw, which thoughtfully slowed the flow. Organic flour is ground upstream between French Burr stones. These contain quartz crystals meaning sharp grinding edges which won’t chip into the flour. With every tinkle of the service bell, hungry anticipation grew.

Guinness celebrates their 250th anniversary

How do you fancy being one of the first passengers to venture into outer space with Virgin Galactic? How about enjoying a pint of Guinness in a bar built deep under the ocean? Or what about an intimate recording session with one of the biggest recording artists in the world? The people at Guinness are set to celebrate 250 years by giving fans the opportunity to win prizes that are beyond even your wildest dreams.

Levi Roots – I Slayed it My Way

Following a memorable musical pitch, Levi Roots, 50, won BBC’s ‘Dragon’s Den’ with his potent ‘Reggae Reggae’ sauce. In exchange for a 40% stake in his business, he secured the support of millionaire ‘Dragons’, Peter Jones and Richard Farleigh – not to mention £50,000. We skanked ove to talk to him

Knife work if you can get it -Allens of Mayfair

This is Allens butchers in Mayfair and we are gathered around a chopping block the size of a dinner table to learn about how to butcher meat. I already know how to bugger up fish, and make a mess of vegetables so this will complete my training. Except this is a skills lesson, an introduction to an art most of us don’t practice anymore.

Let us scoff -Galvin Bros to open their church

Plenty of foodies like to worship at the feet of chefs, now they can do it in a place with the right odour of sanctity. Defying the recession, or maybe just too far down the contract road to stop, Chris and Jeff Galvin have announced that the name of their forthcoming City of London restaurant will be Galvin La Chapelle