With the school holidays now in full swing, you may be finding it difficult to keep the kids entertained whilst keeping to the budget.To help ease the pain, the Royal China Club, Baker Street, is hosting free chopstick lessons for children on the 9th of August.
Fire and Stone opens fifth restaurant
Fire & Stone, the restaurant known for their pizzas with a difference, is opening a fifth restaurant this week in London’s Old Spitalfields Market.
Brasserie Joel
Despite criticism of the building it occupies, Brasserie Joël provided an authored insight into La Belle France, as Douglas Blyde found out…
Summer at The Old Brewery Greenwich
The Old Brewery is the perfect place to head when the sun starts beating down this summer. Enjoy a specially created summer menu along with beers that have been individually matched to each dish or go casual, picking up something from the take-away menu to enjoy in the park.
Crabby Aikens’ Winnebago
Despite reservations, Douglas Blyde found himself making the short journey past the ‘Sloany Pony’ for day one of two of Cloudy Bay’s pop-up Crab Shack on Parson’s Green.
Le Cordon Bleu Afternoon Tea Party
The World class cooking school Le Cordon Bleus is set to host an Afternoon Tea Party where guests will learn new skills and tuck into top quality, freshly made scones and cakes.
Afternoon Tea at Dean Street Townhouse
At Dean Street Townhouse, you will find the afternoon crowd lunching alfresco, slowly 
displaced by more mature guests inside the restaurant as evening approaches; all well heeled of course.
Terminal 5 food. Plane and simple?
Plane Food as a restaurant name is obviously tempting fate. You can imagine the worried discussions around the table when the idea was first mooted – what if the food’s boring? What if it fails to ‘take off’? What if it crashes? No doubt Gordon overruled them all, bouncing up and down on the balls of his feet, chopping one hand into another and saying ‘yeah?’ at the end of every sentence. It’s just part of T5’s first-class food offering for travellers.
The Lonsdale, 48 Lonsdale Road, Notting Hill
Some things, as good as they are on their own, don’t necessarily work in combination so, aware that our evening’s destination, The Lonsdale, specialises in steaks and cocktails, we had some doubts, but were naturally optimistic, off we went to the ever-popular Notting Hill. While their specialities of cocktails and steak aren’t an obvious fit, they do both to a very high standard.
Loving Lebanon: Kebbeh Recipe From Bethany Kehdy
Bethany Kehdy from food blog Dirty Kitchen Secrets passes on her recipe for the yummy Lebanese dish of Kebbeh. Plus find out all about the Taste Lebanon culinary expedition this September.