Malaysian restaurant Awana is celebrating the very best of the sea by hosting a two-week Seafood Festival from Monday 4th – Sunday 17th July. The restaurant’s head chef, Virasamy Poliah has devised a mouth-watering feast, blending exotic flavours and traditional Malaysian ingredients.

Cakey Perry is a unique culinary experience entirely inspired by the Katy Perry’s California Girl’s video which is set in a fantasy Candyland landscape.

Currently undergoing an extensive refurbishment Satsuma, Soho’s urban-style Japanese restaurant, is set to officially re-launch on 1 September 2011. The complete redesign will include pod-style seating for up to four diners. Diners who visit the restaurant during the two week soft opening period, from mid-August until 31 August 2011, will receive 25% off the total food and drinks bill.

Busaba Eathai, the modern Thai restaurant, is expanding – bringing the taste of Thailand to Covent Garden, with its eighth addition opening on Thursday 30 June, in Floral Street.

On Monday 4th July Tristan Welch of Launceston Place will take over the kitchen at Sam’s Brasserie (Barley Mow Centre, 11 Barley Mow Passage, Chiswick W4 4PH) for one night only.

Bubble Food, the South London events caterer, has recently launched its molecular gastronomy menu.

Pontoon, a 1975 classic Camper Nicholson motor yacht, has recently launched as a private venue in London.

Hurry to book one of 40 places at The Cinnamon Club’s for-one-night-only Chilean wines evening. You’ll go home deliciously-fed and able to show off your knowledge about matching flavours and spice.

Now in its 4^th year, Rioja Tapas Fantasticas will be returning to Potters Field Park, on the South Bank of the Thames, sandwiched between Tower Bridge and the GLA egg shaped building. Tapas Fantasticas is a free festival over the weekend of Saturday 25^th and Sunday 26^th June, it’s a fun day out and certainly something you should consider putting in your diary.

Any meal that begins with pudding is off to a perfect start, in my opinion. So Janice Wong of Singapore’s 2am: dessertbar was already in my good books as I dug into my first forkful of her ‘Chilli Chocolate Coral”—a reddish chunk of soft, creamy and surprisingly spicy cocoa laced with peanut butter—served as an appetizer at a recent seven-course lunch.