Whether you dust off the vintage Rothschild or pop down the local off-license before your visit to Sam’s, they’ll be happy to welcome you with your own bottle of wine in hand.

Free oysters at Pont de la Tour, go native at Boisdales and learn how to shuck at the Bouchon Breton. There are oysters everywhere in October.

This year at FRIEZE Art Fair, GAIL’s Artisan Bakery will be tantalising the taste buds of London’s glitterati with their carefully designed menu in the VIP lounge and tempting the greater community of art lovers in the Main Café with a plethora of their incredibly delicious artisan products.

Although beer is the world’s oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic beverage, its complexity and compatibility with certain cuisines is often overlooked. Fine-dining Thai restaurant, Mango Tree in Belgravia, is revealing how Thailand’s best selling Chang beer enhances the delicate flavours of its dishes with a Street Food Beer Festival pairing menu, available from 5th until 25th October 2009

Mint Leaf, the London restaurant, has collaborated with Britain’s youngest and most highly qualified chocolatier to create an inspirational Chocolate Week Menu in aid of The Sick Children’s Trust.

2009 marked Hardy’s 25th anniversary and to celebrate this occasion they will be serving their £19.84 per head Christmas menu from November 16th and throughout December.

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.