Why go to Munich to experience the famous Oktoberfest? For the sixth year in a row, the Bavarian Beerhouse in London is organising its own Oktoberfest, featuring Bavarian-style fun, entertainment and live music. It may well involve sausages!

The new quiz nights at Tom & Ed Martin’s recently opened Cadogan Arms on the King’s Road have become the hot spot for trivia champions and Chelsea’s aspiring intelligentsia. Taking place every Monday evening, this is your chance to have some competitive fun, test your general knowledge and win a £100 bar tab in the process.

Chelsea restaurant Papillon re-launches this month with a new head chef, Tom Hempstead, and a new brasserie-style menu.

Got an iPhone? Then get a cocktail.When you’re on a night out or you’re having a party and are in need of some great drinks recipes fast – the newly launched Sagatiba App has all the answers.

On Tuesday 8th September, The Avalon, the Clapham public house owned by Tom Peake, Mark Reynolds and Nick Fox, will showcase an exclusive five-course gastronomic feast, paired with fine wines from the award winning Waterkloof Estate in the prestigious Stellenbosch region of South Africa The menu, with wines, is priced at just £38.50 per head, with only 20 tickets available, wine lovers will need to act quickly to reserve a seat.

Mestizo, with both Mexican chefs and staff is one of London’s authentic Mexican restaurants. Mestizo has recently announced their fourth ‘Gastronomic Week’ Festival which is to run from the 8th to the 13th September.

These prepared picnics include some of the restaurant’s signature dishes including Caesar Salad, Smoked Salmon Croque Monsieur and Chocolate and pecan brownie with crème Chantilly. All the food can be taken onboard, or simply eaten in one of the many seating areas in the terminal. Probably with someone else’s child falling over your feet and an Australian backpacker fast asleep and dribbling on your shoulder.

The Meat & Wine Co has announced that their recently launched wine club, ‘The Meet & Wine Club’, will be holding it’s third meeting on Tuesday 1st September 2009 entitled ‘Call my bluff Mr Chancellor’. The event’s focus is all about buying value for money wines. We understand that accompanying the taste test will be platters of delicious canapés and all this is very reasonably priced at £20 per head.

With British food being more popular than ever, what better way to proudly celebrate our Britishness then with two gloriously British food-filled weeks in the form of ‘British Food Fortnight’. Running from 19^th September to 4^th October, ‘British Food Fortnight’ forms the biggest national celebration of the diverse range of foods that our great nation produces.

GAIL’s Annual Garden Party this year (held in Hampstead Oriel Place) on Saturday 12^th September (9am – 5pm) promises to be bigger, better and even more exciting than before with over 20 stalls including the iconic Neals Yard Dairy, Meantime Brewery, Moro, Tor to Door and Gelato Mio