Ably fronted by celebrity chef, Valentine Warner, Harrods launched their Festival of British Food, on Wednesday this week, the festival runs for a little over two weeks until 3 October. For the launch food writers were invited to lunch in The Terrace Bar on the fourth floor where we met and mingled with British food producers, myself clutching my flute of Knightsbridge, English sparkling wine.
New All Bar One Bishopsgate
All Bar One have always been a company that strives to deliver what the customer wants so with the new All Bar One Bishopsgate they’ve expanded on their successful business model by offering innovative new dishes.
Armagnac continues to celebrate 700 years – pairing with Indian food!
When invited to an event, celebrating 700 years of Armagnac production, I thought how bizarre – well who wouldn’t when the theme was pairing Armagnac with Indian cuisine from the Moghul region in the north west of India? It was absolutely an invitation I wasn’t going to turn down and I was glad I didn’t.
‘Hand-picked’ by Harvey Nichols
The idea of Handpicked is that head chef Jeremy Bloor from Harvey Nick’s OXO restaurant takes the press to visit one of his suppliers, in this case, his cheese one. Towny girl Anita Pati tags along avoiding cowpats and gets to eat a locally sourced al fresco lunch in a field with a load of random strangers.
James Martin: Scotch Emissary
BBC Saturday Kitchen presenter and prominent petrol-head, James Martin will be at classic car festival, Goodwood Revival this weekend as ambassador for Speyside single malt, The Singleton of Dufftown.
A potted tale of Canteen
On the 19th of October 2005, Canteen was opened to the public at Old Spitalfields Market where it was welcomed with open arms. Fast forward to today, Canteen remains a firm favourite of critics and customers alike and continues to serve traditional dishes like devilled kidneys, potted duck, fish and chips and treacle tart. And it seems that everyone who is anyone on the food scene has eaten there, liked it and written about it; everyone from A A Gill to Fay Maschler.
Cachaca tasting. Brazil in a bottle
Always ready to be moved by the Brazilian spirit, William Morris sambas into the Langham Hotel for a tutored tasting of some stand out Cachaca cocktails. Then he crawls out again.
The Cambria, Camberwell.
If anyone gives you lip about South London being a cultural wasteland and tells you the only food we specialise in is fried chicken, I suggest you take them down to The Cambria where it’s so good they’ll feel very much at home, wherever they’re from.
Auberge du Lac. A star break wine tasting
Auberge du Lac, Hertfordshire’s only Michelin-starred destination restaurant situated on the Brocket Hall estate, is teaming up with one of Italy’s leading wine producers to launch the first of a series of extraordinary wine tasting events later this year.
Anjum Anand’s Thai noodle, Clawson paneer and vegetable curry
Anjum Anand shows you how to make a delicious curry using Clawson Paneer.