The new bakery in Selfridges will offer the same range of great tasting, freshly baked bread which is available in all the St John Restaurants, including the famous St. JOHN Eccles cakes.

The often bewildering level of choice we encounter means that often we plump for the well known, the tried and tested. Yet it pays to try something a little different if only to confirm your prejudices. I attempted to expand my culinary horizons, by attending a Grana Padano masterclass hosted by Gennaro Contaldo.

Whether you spend Thanksgiving in the bosom of bickering family life or stranded here in the large, grey isle of Britain, Thursday 24th of November can be a cracking good time no matter where you are. Don’t go anywhere else for London’s top 5 Thanksgiving parties. From fine dining and old favourites to some new ideas and a home-style approach, there will be something for every expat in London this year.

Taste of Christmas is celebrating its best restaurant and chef line-up to date, with award winning establishments and top culinary names set to add to this year’s festivities across three days at London’s ExCeL between 2^nd and 4^th December.

Iberica Food and Culture, one of the most stylish Spanish restaurants in London and one of the best, is to open in Canary Wharf on November 21st. Good news indeed for the suits marooned out there in a sea of money. Ahead of opening we chatted to Cesar Garcia, head chef at the Great Portland Street mother ship to hear a bit more about the new restaurant and taste some of his favourite dishes from the menu

In these austere times, when we’re all going back to fundamental principles, what a brilliant idea from this well established wine merchant and producer to get us baking using this so well known home brand of sherry, Harvey’s Bristol Cream.

Pastry chef Liz offers advice to help us home-bakers get better results in our kitchens. From room temperature eggs whites to the dangers of over-mixing, we’ll not only learn the golden rules of baking but we’ll find out why these pearls of kitchen wisdom work. Read on to win a Lurpak Christmas Baking Kit.

A five course Indian lunch at Quilon with a specially designed beer tasting menu gave beer and curry a new meaning. Over a gourmet meal we met the man who literally wrote the book on beer, Garrett Oliver.

Pierre Herme is a 4th generation pastry chef with a weakness for sweet things and the skill and imagination to make his wildest sugar-coated dreams come true. He is launching the release of his macaron bible called simply MACARONS. While it is not new in France, it has taken four years to translate this tome into English.