Choosing the right wine for guests can be confusing. But just in time for holiday meal and party preparation, Bookers Vineyard will teach you the tricks of their trade and give you a look into the inner workings of their vineyard.
Eclectic dining in the heart of Westminster
The Footstool restaurant at St. John’s, Smith Square, situated in the heart of Westminster, has recently launched a new menu which allows both formal and informal dining. The restaurant has also unveiled its Christmas set menu which is available for £29.50 for 3 courses.
Unpretentious comfort food highlights Italian menu
Let Zizzi Ristorante’s wood roasting pizza oven take the chill off British weather as you settle in to enjoy a choice of hearty Italian dishes for under £10. Head Chef Angelo Garofalo was inspired by traditional and contemporary Italian food trends
Kitchen Nightmares set aside for holiday success stories
London’s ExCeL centre in East London will be the setting for Gordon Ramsay’s ‘live” four-day Christmas theatre, a ‘Taste of Christmas.” Wine expert Olly Smith will start the entertainment, and Ramsay and his side-kick Sarge will bring lucky audience members on stage to sit at the tables of famous chefs.
Lincolnshire Sausage with roast onions, coriander and cumin mash and Bhuna sauce recipe
In celebration of National Curry Week (23rd – 29th November) and to launch a series of Anglo-Indian recipes, a county chef has created Lincolnshire’s first locally-inspired curry. Known as the Yellow-Bellied Bhuna, this medium hot mouth-watering dish includes the famous Lincolnshire sausage, Lincolnshire potatoes and other locally-loved produce combined with fresh Indian spices.
The Avalon restaurant in Balham
The launch of The Avalon, at 16 Balham Hill, was a very impressive occasion. A ten minute walk from Balham Station, and a stone’s throw from Clapham Common, this newly refurbished bar restaurant is quite imposing externally but when you walk inside, the Victorian style lighting throughout and minimalist, almost utilitarian white brick tiling to most of the walls makes the place look even bigger. The dining area has two magnificent chain chandeliers suspended from the ceiling and copies of Victorian press cuts set into the tiled walls. Named after the Isle of Avalon, from Arthurian legend there is an eclectic mix of seating and décor including a wallpaper mural depicting an Arthurian scene in the bar area.
Gourmet San restaurant in London
‘Hello? Is that the Chinese takeaway? Great, can I have Ox tendon in spicy oil, fried green beans with preserved vegetable and chilli, Sichuan style tofu and seafood, fried pork tendons in spicy salt, a skewered whole quail and the fried lamb with onion and lots of cumin and chilli. What do you mean you’ve never heard of any of that? What kind of Chinese restaurant are you?”
108 Marylebone Lane Restaurant In London
Once upon a time in a job far far away, I used to walk from Oxford Circus to Marylebone for my pub lunch and pint. This was before the ban on lunch hours in general, and drinking during them in particular, became common HR policy. Back then it seemed a cute little backwater area and really nothing has changed. Marylebone Lane still meanders pleasantly, as indeed I used to on those occasions when one pint had slipped into three. I couldn’t afford a restaurant then but I can now, especially at 108’s prices.
Felix Hunt- the gourmet that goes all the way
Greetings once again. As I get older there may come a time when I can no longer pilot the Rolls around London ‘s restaurants. At which point I will become obliged to stay at home, either in our agreeable Mayfair flat or in our modest mansion in the country. There I will survive on a diet of Waitrose and Marks and Spencer meals all brought to me by my latest young male assistant via the magic of the Interwe
The Exhibition Rooms Restaurant in London Review
Cross the rubicon of Clapham, regarded by some people as a part of North London that got accidentally cut off by the Thames, and you’re in the deep Sarf proper. Crystal Palace is as south as it gets really and yet only a few stops by mainline from London Bridge or Victoria, as any resident will tell you. It was this closeness and airy height above sea level that led to the great Exhibition Rooms of 1851 being moved here from Hyde Park. The Crystal Palace was a major attraction until the whole lot burnt to the ground in 1936, cheered on by my father who was allowed to stay up late in his winceyette pyjamas. Read more