An all-new dining and entertainment experience has arrived in London direct from South Africa and they’re throwing a special night to celebrate the New Year. A heady fusion of comedy, cirque and cabaret combine with decadent dining to create an irresistible theatrical experience: welcome to Madame Zingara’s Theatre of Dreams
Eat out for a tenner at The National Cafe
Short on pennies post Christmas, but still want to enjoy a meal out with friends? Easing your credit crunch worries, The National Café has come up with a fabulous new £10 dinner menu. For just a tenner, visitors to Oliver Peyton’s renowned café can enjoy a seasonal British meal along with a glass of wine.
Have a bottle of free wine at Albannach
This January, Albannach, London’s contemporary Scottish restaurant, is offering each diner choosing from the great value daily set menu a half bottle of selected wine on the house. At just £16.50 for two courses and £20 for three, the seasonal menu includes starters such as sautéed ham hock and Angus veal hearts with pickled almonds; or North Sea herring with grain mustard potato salad and horseradish crème fraiche.
Curry detox
Filled with remorse from gorging on one too many treats? Has festive over-indulgence left you feeling a little guilty? Thanks to Mela, the authentic, country-style Indian restaurants, foodies need suffer no more with their ‘Curry of Conscience’ detox menu, courtesy of executive chef, Kuldeep Singh. Available throughout January, the menu is full on flavour, but has NO added fats or oils so is low in calories with many ingredients featured for their zingy health benefits.
Add Zizzi to your New Years’ diet plan
The Mediterranean diet is touted to be one of the healthiest diets in the world, so why not add Zizzi to the list of restaurants on your New Years’ Resolution eating plan. From 1st January – 28th February 2009, Zizzi’s is offering a three-course ‘menu della salute’ for £9.95, or a single course option at £6.95 for mains and £4.95 for starters. The healthy, hearty menu choices include Spaghetti Pomodoro, Risotto Funghi and Insalata Classica. The emphasis is on flavour and taste balance to show that nutritious food doesn’t have to be a culinary lull for diners who want to enjoy eating out.
Tossed shares the science of getting into shape
Have you put on a few too many extra pounds over the holiday season? Are you feeling the need to shape-up and detox after the turkey and trimmings and too much Christmas fudge? Tossed has generously shared their super-charged scientific methods for taking the weight off, cleaning up your system, and rebuilding your muscles. If you follow their plan, you should be back into your slim jeans in time for Valentine’s Day dinner.
Join the Resolution Revolution with the help of Tossed
This year, stick with your New Years’ Resolutions with the help of “Tossed”, the next generation of healthy eating venues around London. Tossed has devised three, 20-day Resolution plans which are fun and easy to follow. You can make choices from their on-line menu to go with the “Resolution Revolution” plan of your choice. Tossed counts the calories and nutritional content so you don’t have to, ditches mayo, and uses low GI carbs. But you won’t notice the sacrifices you’re making, because salads are packed with superfoods and protein.
Hooky’s seasonal beer calendar for 2009
Every season comes with its own favourite dishes. Stews and hearty soups seem to taste best in fall and winter, while the summer season often brings cravings for fruit and vegetable salads. With sensitivity to how seasonal changes create subtle differences in what drinkers want in a beer, Hooky is offering eleven beer varieties to make changes in weather something to look forward to.
Healthy Sprouts make it easier to eat
The recommended 5-a-day advice for eating fruits and vegetables can be a challenging target for most families. Recent figures suggest that the average consumption in England is less than three portions a day, with even lower levels among children and people on low incomes. Sprouting seeds, beans and leaves are among the most nutritious and delicious ways to increase daily vegetable intake and the new ready to eat “And Sow On” range of Alfalfa and Mixed Beans varieties has taken the hard work out of a better eating plan.
The best oil for roasting potatoes
We all love a golden, crunchy roast potato and never more so than on Christmas Day. Whether it’s a turkey, pork, goose or beef dinner the one thing we all agree on is that it’s not right without a roast tater or two. But how do you make them perfect? Check in any recipe book, or ask your mum, and you’ll get all kinds of varying opinion on cooking times, type of spud and what kind of fat to use. At this time of year it seemed vital that we nail this dilemma quickly so we decided to get a top chef to cook up a pile of spuds to try and work out once and for all how best to get a right roast result.