May menus are all about the green scene outside: whether fruit and veggies for London Vegetarian Week (21-27 May) or floral-based fare for the Chelsea Flower Show (24-28 May), we urge you to ditch your carnivorous diets and indulge in the gourmet grub the garden has to offer.

Following a trip to Georgia to discover the wonderful food and wine of the country, Kerstin Rodgers aka Ms Marmite Lover – founder of one of the first UK supperclubs, The Underground Restaurant – is to host a Georgian-themed dinner on April 24th.

The UK’s biggest burrito chain Tortilla is opened another branch in Wimbledon giving away 1000 burritos to celebrate.

A great view, good food, history old and new – and some intriguing facts: it’s London summed up. It’s The Portrait Perspective and it’s available as a leporello, a concertina pull out booklet that opens to reveal a metre-long panorama of the view from the Portrait Restaurant at the top of the National Portrait Gallery. Linking portraits in the gallery with buildings seen from the Portrait Restaurant, it’s ideal for poring over as you pour out a cup of coffee before exploring the gallery.

Japanese food via Denmark? Why not? After all we happily lap up their crime drama and snap up the mosses and lichens of the ‘world’s best restaurant’ in Noma, Copenhagen. Can sushi also bow to the mighty power of the Viking warriors? Let’s see.

‘Hooray, hooray, it’s a Holi, holiday!’… For the uninitiated, Holi is one of India’s maddest, most colourful festivals- a chance for mad March hares to fling brightly coloured powders at one another, eat copiously and brilliantly, and in general, just have a rum old time. And ‘Bombay cafe’ Dishoom is celebrating in style.

Cookbook Cafe at the InterContinental London Park Lane is introducing a ’50 Mile Menu’ celebrating the finest, seasonal and sustainable British ingredients which can be sourced within a 50 mile radius of the hotel.

Marston’s are celebrating 2012 by producing 12 single hop ales – that is, ales all produced in the same way to the same 4% ABV but using a different hop.

Last year, crispy dumplings were a huge hit at London’s first ever pop-up Japanese gyoza bar- and this month, The White Horse in Hoxton is gearing up to do it all over again.

The bar is so new you can still smell freshly-sawn wood but its intimate and cosy. At the far end, two almost horizontally laid-back old blues player are showing how it’s done. ‘I don’t want the music down here to be drowning out conversation, but be behind it,’ Malcolm adds while trying one of his own mini puddings of slow-braised ox cheek.