‘Spices for Passion” Valentine menu available on Thursday 12, Friday 13 and of course Saturday 14 February at The Ambassade de l’Ile
Cheat this Valentines with Villandry Prestige Valentines hamper
Villandry, the renowned Great Portland Street Foodstore and restaurant, has come up with the perfect ‘cheat’ for a romantic, home cooked Valentine’s meal. The Villandry Prestige Valentine’s hamper contains four delicious courses including foie gras and lobster, and comes with full instructions for easy heating and serving. At £46.50 per head for four courses, hand delivered to your home or office, it is the perfect solution for a beautiful, hassle free Valentine’s meal at home.
Peas, Love And Harmony On Valentine’s Day
‘Candlelight, romantic melody and aromatic scent all add to the pea-fect ambience of the night, while the brilliant green of each dish assaults your vision. If you can let yourselves merge with the richness of gourmet sensuality you can actually imbibe romance.’
Blimey! We’re talking abut peas here, more romantic than you think apparently. Here’s a complete Valentine pea meal for you
Brasserie to beat Credit Crunch
Belts are being tightened and the gravy train has been derailed. Luckily however Waterloo Brasserie, with its winning combination of all-day drinking and dining in a stylish modern European setting, has some credit crunch busting offers to help alleviate the gloom.
London’s Rasa Sayang Offers Slice Of Delicious Tradition This Chinese New Year
Rasa Sayang, a restaurant in London serving authentic Malaysian and Singaporean cuisine, is offering a slice of tradition in the form of one of the most popular Chinese New Year dishes in Asia, Yu Sang. Yu Shang is a dish that is served in most restaurants and household in Asia to promote good luck for the New Year
A night with the Madame
Madame Zingara’s is an exciting, bohemian circus experience and one with fine dining to accompany the cabaret. Nick Harman went backstage to see how the kitchen pulls off a major meal every night.
The Victoria Pub Hotel Restaurant
Approach The Victoria from one direction and you wonder what a nice little pub like this is doing it what appears to be a residential area, albeit one that is rather pricey. Approach from the other direction though and you realise that it’s actually just a stone’s throw from Richmond Park and ideal for walkers, cyclists and anyone to aim for.
The Proof is in the Pudding
An entire room has been devoted to puddings, desserts, biscuits and cakes in the new look Kettner’s – one of London’s oldest restaurants and an institution in bohemian Soho. The pudding bar display is over nine feet long, the Pudding Bar is situated right next to the grand main restaurant. It offers a splendidly sumptuous smorgasbord of sweet treats – all hand-made on the premises by patisserie chefs.
Stoppard’s son serves no stodge food
Brought to London by Barny Stoppard, son of the playwright Tom Stoppard, Barny’s is a quick service restaurant concept, serving healthy but hearty hot food using the latest fast food technology from America, but replacing frozen, fried and processed ingredients with fresh natural ingredients. This unique project promises to change the popular notion that fast food and the machinery used to produce it has to result in greasy and unsavoury cuisine that is bad for you
Take a flavour trip at the Miracle Bar
Always at the forefront of new and exciting food trends, award winning caterer Dish launches the ingenious ‘Dish Miracle Bar’ a fantastic new concept set to become talking point of the social scene, at Madame Tussauds on 3rd February 2009. The Dish Miracle Bar will literally flip guests’ taste buds with an array of specially designed canapés from an array of sour foods such as rhubarb, lemons, limes and even Guinness which will all taste wonderfully sweet!