Chocolate tastes even better when it’s an extra piece illicitly purloined from Montezuma’s irresistible and occasionally unattended sample trays. Perhaps that’s why the company have furnished me with a few bars of my own, so that I’ll stay away from the stores. Fine by me – I’m already relishing the fact that these bars are legitimately mine, all mine.

Luxury Chinese restaurant, Min Jiang, is offering diners the chance to try its signature dish,’Legendary wood-fired Beijing Duck’, together with a bottle of Louis Roederer Champagne, for £80 (half duck) or £99 (whole duck).

The White Horse on Parson’s Green is teaming up with the Thornbridge Brewery on Wednesday 14th August for an evening of beer and food matching. 

The talented team behind the festival is back with TOAST, Cornwall – the first of a’series of food events to whet your appetite and delve a little deeper into the gastronomical world’. Taking place on Sunday 18th August at LASSCO, Maltby Street Market 

Plankton anyone? Highly acclaimed Spanish chef Ángel León joins Nuno Mendes at Viajante to create eight-course tasting menu, in partnership with Gin Mare 

It’s compact this new bar but not cramped, although large parties could easily dominate the room if there wasn’t a no standing policy in force, and tables can be reserved to ensure a seat. The cocktail list is redolent of prohibition  USA and of  F Scott Fitzgerald swapping finely-honed epigrams with Zelda, but the food is on today’s hit list of must haves.

Italian beer brand Birra Moretti, will be hosting ITALY LIVE – a one-off event on 26th July transforming London’s Golden Square into the Italian piazza of San Gimignano, Tuscany

 If you’re a fan of oysters then Whitstable in Kent is the place to be this coming weekend and beyond . There’ll be oysters aplenty and at affordable prices too. And if this sunshine continues where better to be than at the seaside having an orgy of oysters?