Those looking for an unusual way to celebrate Valentine’s Day this year will have a variety of options at both Tate Britain and Tate Modern restaurants and cafés. Head Chefs at both galleries have worked together with award winning Sommelier for Tate Hamish Anderson, and created a fantastic offering to suit all tastes and budgets and an offer that is guaranteed to impress even the most discerning partner.
Have a threesome at Me Love Sushi this Valentine’s Day!
Love is always in the air at Me Love Sushi and that is multiplied on Valentine’s Day when the restaurant will be offering groups of three of more, one complimentary portion of heart shaped tuna sashimi when they dine in the restaurant, as well as a complimentary voucher each to enjoy a Love cocktail in the gorgeous upstairs Champagne and Sake bar.
Anjum’s New Indian – Anjum Anand
Fancy an Indian? A lot of people who watched Indian Food Made Easy on BBC certainly did. A new world record of men watching cookery programmes, unbeaten since Nigella’s early days of licking her fingers and simpering at the camera.
Say cheese on Valentine’s day
Think Valentines night is cheesy? Then celebrate at La Cave a Fromage. As an alternative to the usual rather unoriginal dinner for two they’re ’re holding a cheese tasting at their South Kensington shop for loved up couples who enjoy a piece of fine quality fromage.
Son of playwright opens restaurant
After perfecting his skills in a stall at Broadway’s Farmers’ Market, Barny Stoppard, son of the acclaimed playwright Tom Stoppard, has opened his first restaurant. Barny’s Place is a quick service restaurant concept, serving healthy but hearty hot food using the latest fast food technology from America, but replacing frozen, fried and processed ingredients with fresh natural ingredients. Stoppard promises to change the popular notion that fast food and the machinery used to produce it has to result in greasy and unsavoury cuisine that is bad for you.
Valentine’s Day muesli for ‘cereal’ romantics
Mymuesli has launched a limited edition Valentine’s Day ‘Love Crunch’ for cereal romantics wanting to tantalise their lover’s taste buds between the sheets this Valentine’s Day.’Love Crunch’ is just what cupid ordered, packed with sensuous and healthy organic ingredients to lift the libido and nourish the heart. And all this goodness comes delivered in specially designed ‘l love you’ packaging.
Ketel One Vodka – a matter of pure taste
A vodka martini is, in my very butch opinion, the only cocktail a man should ever order in a bar. It sounds what it is, a clean crisp drink with no fannying about with lumps of fruit or fruity rimming action with sugar or salt. I do so hate rimming, don’t you?
London restaurant tears up the bills for its customers
A London restaurant is tearing up its bills and asking customers to just pay what they think their food and service is worth. Peter Ilic, owner of the Little Bay restaurant group, will not present a single food bill to diners at his Farringdon Road restaurant during February.
Carnevale restaurant
Falafel with aubergine and pepper Harissa casserole to follow could perhaps have been spicier but was tasty and huge and rounded off with the addition of a lemon-tahini sauce. The two home-made sausages sat atop their heap of Colcannon mash with cabbage raised a few smiles among the more puerile among us however despite looking as though conceived for a Dennis Potter school- flashback were inoffensive if not striking. Certainly they could have done with a little more of the redwine gravy with which they came.
A matter of taste
A vodka martini is, in my very butch opinion, the only cocktail a man should ever order in a bar. It sounds what it is, a clean crisp drink with no fannying about with lumps of fruit or fruity rimming action with sugar or salt. I do so hate rimming, don’t you?