Kanteen, located in trendy K West Hotel & Spa, has recently introduced a fabulous new ‘Saints & Sinners” menu. This offers a choice of both indulgent and super-healthy dishes. When dining, it is totally up to guests to decide whether they want to be a Saint or a Sinner!

Akashi-Tai Sake Brewery is organising London’s first Cherry Blossom Festival. Big in Japan, the UK version of ‘Hanami” celebrates the growth of Japanese culture in the capital, which now boasts well over 200 Japanese restaurants. The cherry blossom tree holds a prominent place in Japanese culture and tradition, and celebrations are taken seriously, with a strong emphasis on food and drink.

A quick nibble at some new things in brief

Whilst the Nordic Diet is being hailed as ‘next big thing’, the recently opened Madsen restaurant in South Kensington, calmly goes about creating dishes which are about to awaken our tastebuds to the new taste of tomorrow’s healthy eating.

Bibendum is putting on a special Easter Monday supper menu at a deliciously tempting £29.50, with seven choices for each of the three courses. Old fashioned supper favourites such as Gloucester old sport pork chops, Roast rump of beef, and haddock and chips will provide a welcome respite for those who have over indulged in too many chocolate eggs. The evening will be relaxed occasion and offers an easy-on-the-wallet end to a long weekend

Stirring the passion of his kitchen brigade with recipes that time has almost forgotten, Executive Chef Vivek Singh has created six exciting dishes that are influenced by a collection of Royal Courts that include the Mughals in the North, Nawabs in Lucknow, Nizams in the South, Marathas in central India and the Marwars in Rajasthan.

El Faro and H&H Bancroft present the wines of LAN on the 16th of April 2009 Wine Tasting hosted by Trinidad VillegasS from LAN (La Rioja, Alava and Navarra) on April 16th

Inn Noodle serves up London’s first Halal Chicken Xiao Long Pao and brings to Londoners the first pork free Shanghainese restaurant in UK

Saki in Smithfield has a month long Cherry Blossom Season Menu. This seven course, Chef’s Omakase menu (literally translated ‘as chef likes’) is a real treat, featuring cherry leaf and blossoms.

The acclaimed West London gastropub and music venue ‘Paradise by way of Kensal Green’ will be celebrating Easter (Thursday 9 – Monday 13 April 2009) with a series of special seasonal menus, parties and events.