The North Pole Pub, Islington

An independent free house, The North Pole is everything a pub should be; comfortable, excellent beers from far and wide, excellent food and good tunes. There’s nothing left to say really. If it’s your local, and hell, even if it isn’t, don’t waste time anywhere else.

Indian, Pakistani & Bangladeshi dinner at Global Feast 2012

Balls and tarts out on display in Stratford on a Friday night? Hardly a midsummer night’s dream, but not out of the ordinary, either. Okay, try this- a gigantic scale map of the UK has been erected in the courtyard of the Old Town Hall, functioning as the table for a series of world food dinners, aptly entitled Global Feast 2012. And, tonight, we eat the Subcontinent.

New Brewdog Beer

So those barmy blokes at Brewdog are at it again. This time aiming to’take the wheels off the corporate bandwagon’ of London’s summer of sport. With beer, of course.

Languedoc-Roussillon

Wines from the Languedoc-Roussillon area of Southern France feature regularly at the Foodepedia dinner table.We look at a couple of producers who offer quality and value in their price ranges.

Corraling California Rancher Spice Kits

In fact the California Ranchers are based no further west than Bristol, but they use traditional recipes, techniques and flavours that date back to when men were men and died with their boots on and all genuinely developed in California.