Michelin-starred the Hand & Flowers launches 10 pound lunch

The Hand & Flowers pub and dining room in Marlow, one of the highest rated food pubs in the country, is introducing a fantastic value set lunch menu from January 19th 2009, with 2-courses for just £10 and 3-courses for £13.50. The introduction of the lunch menu, which will change weekly and is available Monday to Saturday, sees a return of some of the classic pub style dishes that helped establish The Hand & Flowers’s reputation

Spice and All Things Nice this Valentine’s Day

An ultra romantic, contemporary menu is available for Valentine’s Day 2009 at Imli – the unique Indian restaurant in London’s Soho that offers ‘tapas’ style sharing dishes. At £24.00 per person, the menu consists of three courses – including an appetiser, main course, two side dishes and dessert.

Bag a Bordeaux for Easter

Château Reysson 2005 is a perfect wine partner with Spring lamb and roast meats. So pick up a bottle from Tesco during a special promotion from 25 February – 14 April. Shoppers looking for reliable, good value claret to serve with traditional Easter fare should opt for a bottle of Dourthe’s Château Reysson 2005, an outstanding Cru Bourgeois Supérieur, now available from Tesco stores

The Kitchen -After School

The Kitchen daily sessions, designed and led by Michelin Star chef Thierry Laborde, have provided myriad homes with the finest of gourmet meals and dinner party menus. And now, for the first time, they will be opening their doors to London’s young cooks for a series of After School sessions.

Footstool restuarant

Some things purr on, doing their business, no X-factor genes pumping their spoilt podgy dancing legs. One of these is the modest but wonderful Footstool Restaurant in the brick-vaulted crypt of St Johns church in Smith Square, Westminster.

Osso Buco

Osso buco is the perfect dish to feed a crowd. It is one of those dishes that can simmer away happily unattended for hours and fills your kitchen with delicious smells.

John Torode Beef

John Torode’s face gazes out of the front cover of this book looking like a cow benignly watching a farmer approach with a shotgun. No doubt it was a deliberate design decision, but it does make you question the wisdom of eating as much meat as John clearly has done. He looks, to be blunt, a bit beefy himself.

Free bottle of wine at Madsen with Foodepedia

Scandinavia is all the rage, from bands like Alphabeat to places like Madsen which is, to be specific, predominantly a Danish restaurant and which Danes all rave is the real deal.From 13 to 31 January, enjoy a complimentary bottle of house wine worth £14.50 for a minimum of two people choosing at least two courses from Madsen’s a-la-carte menu*.