By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food When opening a new restaurant, there are many important factors to take in to consideration. However, no restaurant is able to open and survive without a name. Some withhold interesting stories based around heritage, history or the food itself, others are less adventurous and...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Tying in with Waterloo Food Festival, The Sky Bar at the H10 Waterloo hotel will host a series of gin master classes this month. With two more master classes taking place in July, the gin bar will focus on both Portobello Road Gin and...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Strength: 6.5% ABV Brewed: Ellon, Scotland Tired of a market dominated by industrially brewed lagers and ales, the team behind BrewDog set up the world’s first crowd-funded brewery in 2007. Now operating from a site in Ellon, just north of Aberdeen, a community of over 35000 investors own...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Argentinian wine brand Graffigna, renowned for its premium Malbec, has announced the winners of their second annual London Steak Awards. Narrowed down to four restaurants by a public vote, a panel of judges have crowned the steak at Soho steakhouse MASH as the winner...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Call me sentimentalist, call me old fashioned – but like others, I’m sure, turkey (the bird) is something that I do not generally associate with the month of July. Generally reserved for Christmas time, often sentenced to hours withering at the bottom of a hot oven,...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Named after one of their signature cocktails – Dirty Martini is a bar group with seven venues operating across London. However, during a recent visit to the Hanover Square outpost, the staff were oddly resolute in convincing me to order a different drink, adamant...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food With so many restaurants specialising in American-inspired barbecue having opened across the city within the past five years, Bodean's is facing an uphill battle to remain relevant. First launched in 2012, Bodean’s was, in fact, one of the first restaurants of this ilk to arrive...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Tired of working in the City of London’s banking industry, Andy Moffat decided to change his career path and set up Redemption Brewing Company in 2010, following his ambition to open a brewery of his own. Operating from an industrial site in Tottenham, just...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Although the food of China has been popular in the UK for many years, it is only more recently that the tired stereotype of Anglicised Chinese cuisine has began to positively evolve. For a very long time, alas, there has been an ignorant British...