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.

Lazarides Gallery are delighted to announce a collaboration with Kofler & Kompanie, pioneers of PRET A DINER, who will be redefining the dining experience in the form of a Michelin Star pop-up restaurant during their four-week residence at The Old Vic Tunnels. From 10 October until 25 October, the underground venue will be transformed into an alternative cultural space featuring a labyrinthine gallery of street art and film, a world-class restaurant and lounge-bar.

As part of the London Restaurant Festival celebrations, Fortnum & Mason will be hosting a Culinary Carnival of its very own. Guests will have the opportunity to sample dishes by some of the UK’s best loved chefs as well as a selection of Michelin-starred chefs in The Gallery Restaurant of Fortnum & Mason.

Fine-dining Thai restaurant Patara and luxury resorts group Six Senses Resorts and Spas have joined forces to create a menu inspired by Six Senses, which will be available at all four Patara restaurants in London during August and September 2011. Six Senses is also offering Patara diners the chance to win luxury Six Senses treatments when they dine from the new menu.

Looking for somewhere to bag your first grouse of the season? Well shoulder your over and under, pull up your yellow leggings and take aim at these fine sporting establishments

A ‘pop up restaurant (yes, yawn, another) it will be called ‘The French Laundry at Harrods” but we hope the cooking will have a bit more imagination than that. It should do, Keller has a fine reputation at his home restaurant (he lives next door) which he started in 1994.

1 Lombard Street the restaurant and brasserie in the City of London opposite the Bank of England has recently launched a Wine Society. The Society offers the opportunity to taste and learn about some of the world’s greatest wines, and to meet many of the people who produce them.
The next wine dinner on August 8 when sommelier Matthew Mawtus will present some of his favourite vintages from the 1 Lombard Street cellar.

Vintage, the festival voted UK’s Best New Festival at the 2010 Festival Awards last year, is back. This year, it forms part of the Festival of Britain’s 60th anniversary celebrations and takes place at the Southbank Centre over the weekend of the 29th to 31st of July.

We’d arrived to a glass of Veuve Clicquot Yellow Label Champagne, to sip before and during the demonstration, and pretty soon after Jun Tanaka was setting about the creation of five ‘simple’ dishes, in his words. And were they simple? Well, I’ll certainly try a few at home when the opportunity arises.

Cloudy Bay wine is bringing the Cloudy Bay Shack – a pop-up airstream that offers the chance to experience some of the best Cloudy Bay wines matched with bespoke food dishes.