Like chocolate? Then you’ll love this, the Artisan du Chocolat have a feast of events during Chocolate week so why not dive in and float away on a sea of cocoa love?
Antonio Carluccio’s Simple Cooking
Good old Antonio. It was this Italian bear who awakened a love of mushroom hunting in me, one that has resulted in some gorgeous meals and, thanks to his clear instructions, no deaths yet.. I did see some coloured lights once but that was when me and my mate Pete deliberately ate some ‘shrooms that were definitely not culinary.
Beer and a five star Thai feast
Although beer is the world’s oldest and most widely consumed alcoholic beverage, its complexity and compatibility with certain cuisines is often overlooked. Fine-dining Thai restaurant, Mango Tree in Belgravia, is revealing how Thailand’s best selling Chang beer enhances the delicate flavours of its dishes with a Street Food Beer Festival pairing menu, available from 5th until 25th October 2009
Game at Trishna and The Harwood Arms
There still may be just a whisper of game left if you’re quick. Two very different establishments this season, with opposing cuisines, have been in on the act of serving the furred and the feathered. Anita Pati gives them both a shot.
‘Proper’ Chilli Con Carne
Chilli is really one of those dishes that has been globally annihilated. This Chilli recipe is an authentic and delicious one and contains a surprise ingredient of Cocoa that really adds a smokey depth of flavour.
Why can’t the English teach their children how to eat?
There are more cookery programmes and celebrity chefs knocking around these days than there are dinner ladies. It’s enough to make you think that this country is in the middle of a foodie frenzy, an orgy culinary patriotism. Except it doesn’t feel that way, not even in the beating heart of the London restaurant scene.
Matching Fine Beer and Higgidy Pies
All the beers were good, except for the Sol which as far as I am concerned still reeks horribly of the 1980s and prats like me standing around wearing white socks and drinking from the bottle. Thank God there were no camera phones then and thus no pictorial evidence to haunt me.
The Loft
Sitting between Clapham Common and Clapham North Underground Stations, The Loft is a substantial Bar and Restaurant, which, as you might imagine, is on the upper floor of a building containing other businesses and produces some seriously good food up there.
Hardy’s celebrate 25 years by offering customers their original 1984 Christmas menu at £19.84 per person.
2009 marked Hardy’s 25th anniversary and to celebrate this occasion they will be serving their £19.84 per head Christmas menu from November 16th and throughout December.
Chocolate Week Menu in aid of The Sick Children’s Trust.
Mint Leaf, the London restaurant, has collaborated with Britain’s youngest and most highly qualified chocolatier to create an inspirational Chocolate Week Menu in aid of The Sick Children’s Trust.