Motability are calling for people across the UK to brew up in the name of charity for their 2009 Tea Party campaign. Throughout August and September, people are being encouraged to hold tea parties at home or in work, clubs and societies to raise funds for Motability, the national disability charity.

Rather than silver spoons, two Glaswegian entrepreneurs were seemingly born with biodegradable starch ones in their mouths. We investigate the craze coming to a high street near you – virtuous yet decadent, frozen yoghurt.

Gourmet Burger Kitchen has teamed up with Help a London Child and Capital Radio in a fundraising campaign that will leave you licking your lips this summer.

Having reported on Bombay Brasserie’s forthcoming cookery demonstrations recently, we decided to go along and give them a try. This is a great way of spending a lunch with friends, or maybe as a work team building exercise, eating great food, whilst learning some Indian cookery techniques. At £40 per head we can see that this would be an affordable, opportunity for groups to learn, share and bond in an excellent atmosphere and a stylish location.

Champion of British produce Oliver Peyton has newly appointed Executive Chef Simon Duff, to bring his wealth of experience to the National Gallery restaurants, The National Dining Rooms and the National Café.

Culinary luminaries Heston Blumenthal, Angela Hartnett, Fergus Henderson and Herbert Berger are combining their formidable forces this October to host the celebrated Action Against Hunger Fine Wine Auction and Dinner 2009.

Recently bought and refurbished by Black & Blue steakhouses, The Archduke on the South Bank is introducing a programme of late jazz nights – Archduke Live! – on Friday and Saturday evenings, launching with a special night on Saturday 15th August, from 11pm – 1am.

The guns are loaded, the wellies are polished and Prince Philip has a dangerous glint in his eye. The game season approaches and the kitchen brigade, at Westminster’s fine dining Indian restaurant The Cinnamon Club, is buzzing with the excitement of preparing dishes using some of the UK’s finest wildfowl and deer.

To lift the mood and cheer up those left in the City in August, Tokyo City will be offering all diners free food on Tuesdays throughout the day for the entire month of August! All you pay for is the service charge of £2.50 and your drinks.

Never ones to turn down a free lunch we happily took delivery of a sample bag of GBK’s new smaller lunch burgers at the office. At this point we should perhaps tie ourselves up in moral knots about the propriety of being ‘bribed’ in this way, but we won’t. GBK took a chance – if the burgers and fries had turned out to be crap we would have said so quite happily. Instead we liked them a lot.