Vini Italiani

Alan Kingsbury buys a ticket to a life-long favourite stamping ground and discovers a very welcome new arrival in the form of an all-Italian wine merchant with some very classy stock.

Adam Byatt: Game Changer

Poppy Laking sits down with restaurateur and Chef Adam Byatt to talk about his Glorious Twelfth menus for Trinity and Bistro Union, and what to do with grouse now that the game season is afoot.

Montezuma’s new chocolate bar trio

Chocolate tastes even better when it’s an extra piece illicitly purloined from Montezuma’s irresistible and occasionally unattended sample trays. Perhaps that’s why the company have furnished me with a few bars of my own, so that I’ll stay away from the stores. Fine by me – I’m already relishing the fact that these bars are legitimately mine, all mine.

Heliot Steakhouse

A casino in central London may not seem the most obvious place for a’gourmet steakhouse’, but Heliot restaurant and bar, located in the Hippodrome Casino, Leicester Square, has managed to create a balance of food and cocktails with a side of blackjack.