four o nine has its own discrete entrance accessed via an entry phone controlled door to the side of The Clapham North pub, inLandor Road. This slight quirkiness somehow lends the restaurant an air of exclusivity, giving you the feeling that you are entering a private dining club.
Babur celebrates 25 years of spice
The dishes composing Babur’s 25th anniversary tasting menu features at least 25 flavours, drawn from some of the restaurant’s most popular dishes.Babur will be celebrating its Sterling Anniversary from 1 July to 31 August.
Tamarind Spring Menu
The Michelin-starred subterranean Mayfair restaurant has launched its spring menu, . At the moment there’s a lunchtime deal where you can get three courses for £18.50, £28.50 with wine, if you fancy.
BBQ at The Montague on the Gardens
Pack away the rusting, and frankly insanitary barbeque. If you fancy your food cooked to perfection and not flambeed to ash then The Montague on the Gardens has got the grill to thrill
Salumi Amo rolls its campaign into the UK
So, following my cordial invitation from the Italian Trade Commission and the Istituto Valorizzazione Salumi Italiani to a Press Conference on the subject of ‘A celebration of Italian Cured Meats in Europe’ I dutifully trotted along to the Haymarket Hotel in Suffolk Place and took my place among the myriad of foodie types from the disparate parts of this media.
Chill out with a Cuisinart Duo Ice Cream Maker
For every season churn, churn churn. Yes, I am humming an old Byrd’s song as I load up the Cusinart Duo ice cream maker. It seems appropriate, after all the world’s most celebrated ice cream gurus, Ben And Jerry, are themselves old hippies who no doubt grooved to The Byrds themselves in their day.
Nespresso. Wake up and smell proper coffee
Home coffee makers promise a lot but rarely deliver. Gleaming machines with intricate plumbing, sleek looks and fancy ad campaigns they invariably make all the right gurgling noises but deliver coffee as weak as water. So we viewed the Nespresso machine with cynical eyes. God knows we need a decent coffee machine in the office; the price of decent coffee around Carnaby Street is high even for the directors and totally prohibitive for the interns who already sleep under their desks to save money.
Between A Rock and a Soft Place
Sponsored by Trebetherick’s St. Moritz Hotel, the inaugural Rock Oyster Festival (19-20 June) will be hosted at Porthilly Farm in Rock, Cornwall, from where the hotel takes delivery of its daily mussels and oysters.
Unsung Italy – cookery classes with a difference in Abruzzo
A cookery course and foodie safari, all run from a restored palazzo high on a hill in Abruzzo, Italy? Nick Harman takes a three day sampler to see what this almost unknown region of Italy can bring to the table
72 Hours of Prosecco
In a one man effort to drain the international supply of Prosecco, we send dedicated dipsomaniac, Douglas Blyde to Venice with premium producer, Bisol…