It takes time and patience to bake the perfect cake. Preparation and practice are the key ingredients.Mich Turner’s Cake School aims to provide all the essential tools, techniques and instructions to make flawless cakes every time.
Felix Solis avantis
Félix SolÃÂs Avantis is a wine producer responsible for many of the Spanish labels on our supermarket shelves including such household names as Viña Albali and Pagos del Rey. We try three tasty reds with typical Spanish character.
Loves Company
There are cocktails and then there are cocktails. The former are vast ice-filled tumblers, with a cheap spirit and a flat mixer, shaken to within an inch of their life. The latter are well crafted drinks, created by people who understand balance, taste and the use of subtle flavours.
A Pukka Cup Of Tea…
Gather round hot drink devotees, because Pukka (the’organic herb specialist’ and purveyor of the prettiest boxed tea bags in the business) have launched four new flavours just in time to sip away the cold snap.
Hackney Pearl, London
Like its name, the Hackney Pearl is a welcome jewel hidden in the damp folds of canalside Hackney. The café bar blazes with warmth in an industrial landscape slowly being pollinated by Dalston’s hipsters from down the roa
Brighton Way, Streatham
Streatham is getting trendy, it’s official. I’ve seen the bearded youths in the corner shops and heard the oncoming whirr of a single gear bike. You don’t believe it? Wake up and smell the upmarket burgers.
Bang Bang Canteen
Great Vietnames street food with a twist just round the corner
Bird, Shoreditch
Amy finds her irrational fear of pickles cured when she eats at this new chicken shack serving an old favourite with freshness.
Ethos restaurant
Ethos is a good addition to a street loaded with chains. Ignore the vegetarian focus, stack your plate with a healthy base of vegetables and open your eyes to the novel and interesting dishes on offer.
Devonshire Arms Hotel
The location, the service and the food were all of the highest standards or at least the highest standards for the price charged – apart, that is, from the location: you can’t buy a better slice of history, geography and breath-taking scenery. It’s worth a visit just for that aspect alone, the fact you can get a great meal and stay in a fantastic hotel are a bonus too.