In celebration of Chocolate Week, 11th-17th October, The Botanist on Sloane Square are offering a limited edition luxury Chocolate Afternoon Tea.

Together with some 30 media colleagues, I arrived at Hays Galleria – by London Bridge – with a view to hitching a ride on the ‘sherry ferry’ to Canary Wharf pier. This trip had been arranged so that Richard Bigg could introduce us to his latest bar/restaurant, Camino Puerto Del Canario. Camino, Puerto Del Canarion really should be experienced, try getting there on the ferry, it’s very relaxing.

London restaurant Vivat Bacchus has launched an Extreme Cheeseboard at both its London branches in Farringdon and London Bridge. Check out which cheeses made it on to the board!

To coincide with National Chocolate Week 11th-17th October, London restaurant Clos Maggiore has created a special chocolate laden tasting menu.

Steak and wine is a match made in heaven, but what happens when you create a tasting menu consisting wholly of beef cuts paired with top notch Argentinean wine? That’s exactly what’s going on over at Farringdon’s A La Cruz restaurant

‘Smell the fat!’ Pierre insists holding out a slice to me. I do and can pick up notes of fresh butter, hazelnuts and fern. ‘Look at the colour, he adds. It is dark red, marbled with bright white fat. ‘Hold it on your tongue and let it dissolve!’ I do and it is quite superb, one of the best hams I’ve had this year, and believe me I’ve had a few.

Diners will tuck into a decadent eight course menu created by the 3 starred Michelin chef Heinz Beck and each course will be lovingly paired with a different Laurent-Perrier champagne to enhance the flavours of the food.

It was a little ambitious, inviting a bunch of food writers and bloggers for a meal with a view to their tasting some 11 dishes paired with their new range of 11 wines all in the space of two hours, but the people at Mien Tay in Clapham, did just that recently. We didn’t quite get through this potentially mammoth feast, but….

Auberge du Lac, Hertfordshire’s only Michelin-starred destination restaurant situated on the Brocket Hall estate, is teaming up with one of Italy’s leading wine producers to launch the first of a series of extraordinary wine tasting events later this year.

Check out these Fashion Week events at London Restaurants and take advantage of some great promotions whilst bagging yourselves a load of free swag!