May sees three new eateries opening for Londoners and those a little to the west to look forward to, Bar Boulud at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel on 6 May The Sanctum on the Green Restaurant and Bar opens mid_May and The Tommyfield in Kennington, from the Renaissance gastro pub group, later in the month.

Now settled into being a good restaurant that doesn’t need endless hyping, Bocca di Lupo is showing a family friendly side by serving Sunday lunches. Not just the a la carte, but also a big special Sunday ‘pasta al forno’ menu. This menu will feature a series of authentic baked pasta dishes, as is traditional at Sunday lunchtimes throughout Central and Southern Italy.

Want to impress your friends with mouth-watering Italian cooking? Taking place on Thursday 22nd April at 6.30pm at Carluccio’s in Ealing and Thursday 29th April at Carluccio’s in Chiswick, Il Risotto: Come Si Fa (risotto making demonstration) is the ideal evening for those wanting to learn to cook like an Italian. Sip on a glass of wine, whilst Carluccio’s chefs show you how to prepare and cook an authentic risotto step-by-step

Veeraswamy was founded in 1926, which was the same year the Queen was born. To celebrate Her Majesty’s Birthday this year, Veeraswamy will be holding a Royal Week of celebrations. In aid of this special week, special menus have been put together to highlight some of the best dishes served at the restaurant in the past 85 years.

Oh God I love squirty cream, the stuff that comes in pressurised tins. I know I shouldn’t but just like Heinz Salad Cream or Findus Crispy Pancakes it’s something that sets off chords in my heart, the memory of sticking the nozzle in my mouth and hanging onto the trigger until cream shot out of my nose and ears is simply too vivid to forget

Sabrina, foodepedia’s resident cookery writer, undertook the Come Dine With Me challenge last year and her appearance on this bitchy backbiting gorge-fest is being repeated on More4 this Sunday starting at 5.10pm.

I have never written about The Park, though it has held a special place in my heart for some eight years now, long before I started writing for foodepedia, or for london-eating prior to that. It is with sadness tinged with excitement that I will say farewell to The Park, but look forward to the exciting times ahead.

Some events that are happening this week in Newcastle, Sussex and London.

Another one bites the dust” as they say, but surely not in such quick succession? With Mark Sargeant having tendered his resignation just 4 months ago to ‘Work on other projects”, Chef patron of Gordon Ramsay’s Maze restaurant, Jason Atherton seems to have followed suit by tendering his resignation also.

Gordon’s at it again! Not content with the success of Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares (Both US & UK), Hell’s Kitchen (Both US & UK) and the F-Word, Gordon Ramsay is working on yet another TV show as we speak.