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!

London will really be getting into the swing of things during British Food Fortnight! Here are some top picks of great offers, free food and interesting activities to take part in.

Award winning Australian chef Mark Best to host one off Supper Club event at Bethnal Green Town Hall on 16th September. Expect the dishes to be ‘delicious, harmonious and aesthetic’.

For one night only acclaimed chef Antonello Colonna will be serving a tasting menu at the Baglioni Hotel’s restaurant Brunello. With food described as ‘Simple, elegant, refined yet at the same time relaxed’, this is a great opportunity to taste the finest Italian cuisine.

The London Restaurant Festival isn’t all fat cats revolving in the Eye. Jun Tanaka and Mark Jankel will be feeding the masses fine food from a converted Airstream trailer as they trundle around London. We went for a pre-tasting of their mobile munchies.