Chicken, Tarragon & Wholegrain Mustard Gnocchi and Red Wine Vinegar and Pineapple Souffle with Maille Mustard and Pineapple Sorbet were created especially for Maille by Claude Bosi, the two Michelin star chef at Hibiscus.
Selfridges Presents St John’s Bakery
The new bakery in Selfridges will offer the same range of great tasting, freshly baked bread which is available in all the St John Restaurants, including the famous St. JOHN Eccles cakes.
Cinnamon Club Restaurant Review
Its ten years since The Cinnamon Club redefined Indian cuisine for an English audience and although classical in execution the cooking remains innovative. The Anglo-Indian cuisine encompasses not only the hybrid cuisine evolved by Bengali immigrants with its vidaloos and tikka masalas, but also the traditionally refined food of India’s raj and royalty that celebrates subtly and quality ingredients.
Ginstitute Launches
With the aim of conveying the long history of Londoners’ allegiance to dry gin, the second smallest museum in the capital recently opened in Notting Hill. The mind behind is drinks expert, graphic designer and part-time dandy, Jake Burger…
Lagavulin 16yr Old Single Malt Whisky
Lagavulin, distilled since 1816 is perhaps the finest example of a smoky single malt and will definitely put hairs on even the most metrosexual of chests.
Learning more about the Big Cheese
The often bewildering level of choice we encounter means that often we plump for the well known, the tried and tested. Yet it pays to try something a little different if only to confirm your prejudices. I attempted to expand my culinary horizons, by attending a Grana Padano masterclass hosted by Gennaro Contaldo.
A History of English Food by Clarissa Dickson Wright
An invitation to dine at The Savoy with the incomparable Clarissa Dickson Wright was an opportunity too good to be missed last week. The lady is in town publicising her new tome, A History of English Food, and where better to talk trotters and trifle than one of London’s original and best dining destinations.
With the first bowl of curry served by Mayor Boris Johnson, celebrity chef demo’s, livestock, and a free lunch for 5000 people made from food that would have otherwise gone to waste, get yourself down to Trafalgar Squar from 12 – 2pm on Friday 18th November 2011
Suka Street Food at Sanderson
I’m not really a street food kind of person, at least not in the UK. I’ve munched in Malaysia, snacked in Singapore and struggled to find a suitable verb in Vietnam, but they’re all places where eating is almost constant. The people of those lovely countries resemble eating bicycles, if they stop feeding for a moment they tend to wobble and fall over.
The Meat Free Monday Cookbook
The Meat Free Monday Campaign was launched in 2009 and has grown as more people discover the benefit of taking a day off from meat – health wise and budget wise too. It’s also sensible as most people will balk at the idea of going totally cold turkey on meat, but once a week is do-able given the right incentives.