Will a spicy working lunch raise morale and get the ideas flowing? El Camion think so and sent us round a sample of their office takeaway to prove the point. It certainly made everyone happy, if not exactly Speedy Gonzalez fast.

Fancy a laugh? Pick up a gatefold menu next time you’re passing the local takeaway, and prepare to enter a surreal comedy world where dishes ‘sauteed with springs’ are the least of your worries- and you’re every bit as likely to quash your appetite as awaken it.

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.

Looking for real quality wines at affordable prices? Waterloo Wine Co. may be trade supply experts but you can buy there too.

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.

In the foothills of Sierra Nevada Natural Park in Andalucia – an area known as’Las Alpurjarras’ – a rather special olive oil has recently gone into production.

Diana, Goddess of hunting has bestowed her name on a fine claret that will go very nicely indeed with grouse.

Ready Salted? Pah! Cheese and Onion? Yawn. Smokey Bacon? Meh! Fairfields Farm Crisps reckon we need a revolution in crisp flavour combos and they’re kicking it off with their new butter and mint.

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.

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.