Barbados, which calls itself’the culinary capital of the Caribbean’, kicks off the autumn season with its annual Barbados Food & Wine and Rum Festival which will be held from 19-22 November 2015.

On Thursday, 29th October Arun Kapil, founder of award winning spice company, Green Saffron will host a Spice Night at The 3 Crowns Old Street pub.

Bruno Loubet and Grain Store – the London restaurant that gives the vegetable equal billing to meat and fish – are getting ready to host a special Autumnal Feast in collaboration with Cyrus Todiwala OBE on Monday 5th October 2015.

Shake Shack® UK will dish up a limited edition burger collaboration with chef Sat Bains at the Covent Garden Shack for one day only—Friday, 9th October.

Chef Allan Pickett and Restaurateur André Blais have announced the opening date for Piquet restaurant on Newman Street, Fitzrovia.

Billingsgate Seafood School has come to the rescue, with its’Essential Seafood Class,’ a class for fish novices, teaching easy dinner recipes which can be created at home for family meals or entertaining.   

The landmark London restaurant Cinnamon Club is reborn as Vivek Singh’s The Cinnamon Club, rather like perrhaps Peter Halls’s Shakespeare?  It’s had a £1 million transformation ahead of its 15th anniversary.

Michelin starred chef Atul Kochhar is teaming up with award winning chef and BBC Two’s Great British Chefs contestant Paul Foster for a one off culinary collaboration at Sindhu by Atul Kochhar in the picturesque village of Marlow

MasterChef champion Tim Anderson opens his Japanese soul food restaurant Nanban in Brixton on 28th September. This follows more than two years of Nanban operating as a pop-up and occasional street food venture, and arrives hot on the heels of the publication of Anderson’s first cookbook, Nanban: Japanese Soul Food.

Mango Tree Belgravia is to launch a regional menu from 15th September showcasing the four core areas of Thailand; north, north-eastern, central and south. Combining fundamental flavourings – hot, spicy, mild and swee