This is is very much a luxury lunch and we should know because we ate one. There was plenty of all the expensive things, well balanced with tenderly cooked salad potatoes, a crisp and spicy salad and a couple of lime wedges to squeeze over the top. Try getting all that in a High Street chain, the one whose name we know as ‘Cold n Wet’ in rhyming slang.

Bob Bob Ricard, or BBR, restaurant and members bar in Soho, London, has introduced a new pricing policy to its new Reserve wine list. This will see customers able to purchase rare and exclusive wines for a fraction of the typical cost found in most fine dining establishments.

The recently launched Bellevue Rendezvous in Wandsworth is hosting its first wine tasting event on Monday 5th October. Chef patron Pablo Gallego has created a 6-course tasting menu which will be paired with a selection of French wines priced at £60 per head.

The owners have created two distinct dining areas, in this newly refurbished pub, downstairs will be a more relaxed brasserie style while the upstairs restaurant will have a slightly more formal atmosphere and menu, The Princess of Shoreditch is looking like it will be a great place to visit.

We try Iberica’s Expressions menu at £16 – a mini “desgustacion” menu of pinchos that is served only between 12-3 pm Monday-Saturday, highlights this restaurant’s cutting edge approach to tapas Served at the bar, it’s made up of eight hot and cold pinchos smartly presented on a piece of slate within 10-15 minutes of being ordered. The menu is served with a glass of ice cold Tio Pepe – nice.

We reported back in August that canned sustainable American Albacore tuna was now on sale in the UK. On Wednesday 30 September 2009, the first ‘global Sustainable Seafood Lunch’ will take place to help promote this style of fishing.

The ‘Chefs for Heroes” gala dinner is being spearheaded by The Lanesborough’s chef de cuisine, Paul Gayler, and dished up by an army of chefs from the UK’s top restaurants.Paul’s team will be serving a sumptuous menu to London’s glitterati in a bid to raise £300,000 for Help for Heroes,

The Meat and Wine Co. just outside the Westfield Shopping centre (well, more like a shopping village really) will be offering customers who book to eat at the restaurant, on the evening of Wednesday 30th September, the opportunity to taste, free of charge, a range of New World wines….

The Macmillan charity is hoping to raise £8 million through the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning on Friday 25 September. Half Spoon granulated sugar is supporting this through its limited edition packaging, which is currently in supermarkets.

From October 4th this year Soho Restaurant, Quo Vadis will be opening its doors for Sunday lunch and dinner.