Following on from the success of his tapas bar Jose, José Pizarro, is slowly building an empire with the opening of “Pizarro” at the end of October.

Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s London restaurant, Spice Market, has introduced an exclusive monthly masterclass programme. Guests will now have the chance to learn the secrets behind some of the restaurants’ best and most successful dishes, under the tutelage of Executive Sous Chef Brett Crowe.

Bumpkin Notting Hill is kicking off its autumn season of Supper Clubs on Tuesday, 22nd September, with a ‘Nose to Tail’ evening with Mark Hayward from renowned pork farmers, Dingley Dell in Suffolk. There will be just 30 places available at this intimate, pork-themed dinner, with tickets priced at £45 for the three-course menu together with matching English wines and ciders.

Good Natured inside and out, their products are pesticide residue free and lovingly grown into fresh, crisp and flavoursome salad, of course with a little help from Mother Nature! Priyanka Kara takes a bite to find out just how Good Natured their salads get.

Angelus might not be in your residential neighbourhood but it ought to be on your ‘we really must go there” list. The latest addition to its menu – pichounettes (a light bite platter of tasting portions from its a la carte menu) and its signature Angelium champagne – are the excuse you need says Joanna Biddolph.

This winter, Cortina – Italy’s most glamorous ski resort – comes to London as Italian restaurant, Cantina del Ponte, opens its Italian ski lodge and terrace on the banks of the River Thame

The Experimental Food Society Spectacular 2011 returns to London again this year from the 21st to the 25th of October. This year’s events will be comprised of three parts: an exhibition, followed by a wild themed banquet and talk.

The Forge in Camden is hosting a Raw Chocolate Making Workshop, where younger foodies are welcome, this Saturday.

Thought you couldn’t see taste? Me neither, that is until I saw Argentinian ice cream parlour Freggo’s new Taste installation.

Camden’s The Forge and Caponata restaurant is to transform its venue into a musical indoor garden for one day only tomorrow (Wednesday, September 7). Get down to catch music, cocktails and a weather-proof end-of-summer indoor picnic.