Look there’s Francesco Mazzei, Giancarlo Caldesi and even, rather surreally,Ken Hom, what are they doing in a Spaghetti House of all places? The answer is that this is a party for ‘the’ Spaghetti House, the original in Goodge Street and founded 55 years ago by Simone Lavarini and Lorenzo Fraquelli, immigrants from Italy who missed their food and were shocked by spaghetti in tins and on toast.

Goodness gracious me! Nina Wadia’s kitchen skills are under intense scrutiny from Cyrus Todiwala. She’s getting quite a drubbing over her onion chopping. Luckily, it’s all in jest- the two friends make an engaging double act as they cook up a mini-feast showcasing Cafe Spice Namaste’s menu in aid of charity Find Your Feet’s Curry For Change campaign.

One of life’s great pleasures, at least for a Brit, has to be a big old bacon sandwich and a big old mug of tea. The bread has to be thick cheap white, no ciabattas or focaccias thank you, and the tea has to be proper tea, not some designer nonsense or some soppy tisane. Luvverly.

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A trip to Sketch, Pierre Gagnaire’s gastro-emporium, is worth it just to see the bathrooms alone. But a redecorated room and a new menu means that afternoon tea aficionados should head to Conduit Street to get lost in the Glade and enjoy a classic British afternoon tea with a bit of cross-channel flair

199 attempts at a chocolate cake? 3 months and counting to boil the perfect egg? The lengths some people go to in the name of decent nosh. Well, not people per se, but, for the test cooks of America’s Test Kitchen, these remarkable feats are just a standard part of the daily grind. At their helm, one man- Chris Kimball, walking gastronomic encyclopedia and, quite frankly, culinary genius.