The Restaurant at St Paul’s Cathedral is rewarding the time and toil of London’s keenest gardeners with a ground breaking ‘Harvest Swap Shop’ -one box of your finest horticultural efforts in exchange for one free Sunday lunch.

Visitors during Ortega’s Rioja Festival can enjoy a tasting of the restaurant’s Rioja selection with matching tapas dishes specially selected to help enhance the flavour of each wine. A tasting of six wines from the Rioja selection, paired with six specially selected tapas dishes, along with bread and olives will be available for £15 per person from today.

Three of the world’s leading fashion icons have teamed up to create a designer menu for the Chelsea brasserie, Papillon, The menu will be available during London Fashion Week (18 – 25 September) to celebrate its 25th anniversary and part of the proceeds will go to the Eve Appeal charity.

With London Fashion Week moving to a new home this September, nearby Seven Dials participating retailers and restaurants are offering shoppers a 20% discount from Thursday 24th to Sunday 27th September.

Shell out a few quid at Le Bouchon Breton in old Spitalfields Market.Each oyster masterclass will feature 10 different varieties of oysters especially sourced from around the coastlines of regional France, England, Scotland and The Channel Islands and these will be paired with a glass of ice cold Champagne, Tourraine, Pouilly Fume and Entres deux Mer.

Launched by two friends and enthusiastic home cooks, Tina Michelucci and Deborah Pyner, ‘Sweet Freedom’ was conceived as a liberating alternative to white menace, sugar. A recent recipient of a Great Taste Award gold medal, it represents the first sweetener to receive such an accolade. Douglas Blyde meets its makers…

Keith Floyd suffered a heart attack and passed away last night, aged 65. Some may say his penchant for excessive drinking may have cause his death, but he fought a long battle with bowel cancer which inevitably contributed to his weakened state. Much irony lying in the fact that his death coincided with the airing of a one hour documentary on Channel 4 last night named ‘Keith on Keith” – interview conducted by Keith Allen.

Strada are holding a Risotto Festival in its restaurants throughout September to celebrate the classic Italian dish. Four new risotto dishes will be available on the menu, inspired by the Northern Italian regions of Piedmont, Milan, Lombardy and Venice where risotto has its roots. Plus we have a recipe for the perfect risotto.

To celebrate the opening of Damien Hirst’s new collection ‘No Love Lost: New Paintings by Damien Hirst’, the Wallace Restaurant at The Wallace Collection in Marylebone has created an exclusive private view and dinner package.

The Deck’s Rooftop Picnics and Plays at the National Theatre proved so popular this August that a September date has been released to say
sayonara to the summer.