When a two-Michelin star chef tells you he’s going to make a pudding using mustard and vinegar, you don’t turn your nose up, found Keyan Milanian
Farmison cheese online
Drop down menus let you narrow down cheese choice by country, hard or soft, type of milk, pasteurised or unpasteurised and then you’re off. We bagged some Berkswell, a Blarliath Smoked, a Blue Stilton (as it’s Xmas), a large Cromarty, a Pecorino and some Ragstone. Portion size of the cheese varies with the type but it’s invariably generous.
Fashion High Tea at The Mandeville Hotel
The doyenne of fashion design Zandra Rhodes continues to make waves in matters concerning taste with her personally designed ‘Iconic Afternoon Tea’ exclusively wrought for The Mandeville Hotel near Bond Street.
Christmas at Pinkberry Westfield
To celebrate the Californian brand opening its new store in London, Pinkberry have created a collection of limited edition festive toppings, in partnership with renowned food architects ‘The Robin Collective’.
An alternative Christmas Day feast – from Leiths and Asda
There are some who will not eat turkey at Christmas, ever. Most of us are tempted to try something different once at least, only to default to turkey because it seems so much more, well, Christmassy. Whichever you are, this menu – a selection of recipes created by Leiths School of Food and Wine specifically for Asda – could be the alternative you seek.
Gü Puds Christmas Range
I don’t know what’s better the pudding or the presentation. Dressed in sparkly gold foiling and presented in a table-ready giant bauble, rows of Christmas trees made from dark chocolate sit on top of four layers of Gü pud.
Gail’s Artisan Bakery
Gail’s Artisan Bakery gets into the spirit of Christmas with a selection of spicy fruit loaves and some classic cakes and cookies.
Glacé àla Moutarde: Are You Taking the Pistou?
Hot on the heels of his ‘straight from the freezer’ biscuit dough comes Heston Blumenthal’s new ice-cream for Waitrose. We’re probably all familiar with Heston’s jiggery pokery that gave us classics like bacon and egg ice-cream, but how do his haute creations translate to the mass market? The answer is rather emphatically, they don’t.
Potli, Indian restaurant London
The absolute star of Potli’s show is the starter Chicken 65, tender poultry in a pungent ginger and pepper batter, like an excellent and healthy KFC. We couldn’t get enough. We also had tawa machi – tilapia fish steaks marinated in ginger, garlic and mustard which were good but we’d have liked more mustard.
Are you man enough to take on the Hot Headz?
The ladydeez sensibly wanted nothing to do with our taste test and retreated instead to a safe distance while we chaps bragged about our capacity to withstand any amount of scoville scorching and made vulgar jokes about lavatory paper. This was going to be a pushover.