Food and Drink

Spirit of the Week: 1800 Silver Tequila

1800 Silver Tequila is a mid-range super premium Blanco tequila that won’t completely ruin your evening.   Like most things (especially when drinking is concerned), quality is everything when it comes to tequila. While tequila has become a big business in recent years (George Clooney recently sold his tequila company to Diaego for up to $1 Billion), so many of us still detest the spirit. The problem here is that so many abhorrers base their convictions of having only tried...

Beer of the Week: Aviator Brewing Company Madbeach American Wheat

Strength: 4.8% ABV Brewed: Fuquay Varina, North Carolina Launched at the end of 2008, Aviator Brewing Company began life in an airplane hangar. Using a hangar at Triple W airport in North Carolina as a base, a range of beers were initially brewed in a DIY fashion, using two used dairy tanks. Against all odds, said beer became hugely popular and demand increased enough for the brewery to open a larger premise, just a short distance from the original. Now, a...

Restaurant Review: Cartel

Battersea’s new neighbourhood Mexican, Cartel, specialises in hand-pressed tacos, tequila and mezcal. Reassessing all of the moments in life I’d rather forget, tequila has played an integral role in nearly all of them. Teenage recollections of bottom-shelf bottles adorned with synthetic Sombreros, lime wedges and salt almost inspire me to give up the booze, for good. Over the past six years, in fact, tequila has been incremental in the ruination of so many perfectly good shirts, shoes, livers and friendships....

Not Lovin’ It – Life-long vegetarian sick after bungling McDonald’s staff give her chicken

A lifelong vegetarian was given the shock of her life when she bit into a McDonald's veggie burger - and discovered it was CHICKEN. Rebecca Beasley, 31, says she was physically sick moments after she took a bite of what she thought was a vegetarian deluxe burger. Blundering staff at McDonald's had accidentally put a McChicken burger in the wrong box before handing it to the mum-of-two. The error happened as Rebecca and her partner Jamie Lineker tucked into a...

London craft cider made entirely from apples grown across the capital to launch

A new hand-crafted cider made wholly from fruit collected in London, will be launched on 24 July by The Orchard Project. The charity, which is the only national organisation dedicated solely to the creation, restoration and celebration of community orchards, has worked with local volunteers to produce a hand-made, limited edition craft cider and apple juice product, which will only be available in the capital.  The Orchard Project harvested two tonnes of dessert and culinary apples from community orchards, gardens and...

Heston Blumenthal’s The Hinds Head gets a dramatic makeover

Of the few restaurants I actively choose to visit again and again, few are as charming as The Hinds Head in Bray. With less bells and whistles than The Fat Duck (or Dinner in Knightsbridge) but ritzier than The Crown, each within spitting distance of one another, The Hinds Head is the embodiment of the quintessentially British ‘gastro-pub’, before Gordon Ramsay helped to make the ‘gastro’ prefix seem as desirable as queuing around the block for dinner, in torrential rain....

London’s Best British Restaurants

British food isn’t boring, and these best British restaurants in London prove it. Over the past 60 years, British food has received a, somewhat unfairly, horrendous reputation. Yes, some of our most iconic “national dishes” are famously bland or borrowed from other cultures. But with such a vast melting pot of cultures on offer throughout London, British food (both classic and contemporary) is back on the menu. And with so many outstanding British restaurants operating across the city, it’s gradually...

Restaurant review: Issho, Leeds

By Chris Moss  With two major city-centre retail developments completed over the past few years to compliment its historic arcades and renowned Briggate shopping street Leeds is quickly becoming the shopping capital of the north. Following the opening of the "outside-in" Trinity shopping centre which boasts 120 shops, restaurants, bars and a cinema the newly-erected Victoria Gate was opened late last year which is Dubai-esque in stature. The glittering arcade draws on digital wizardry and the city’s rich textile past and brings...

Beer of the Week: Hop Stuff Renegade IPA

Strength: 5.6% ABV Brewed: Woolwich, London Starting life within a humble unit at Woolwich’s Royal Arsenal in 2013, Hop Stuff Brewery has since become one of the fastest growing craft breweries in London. Now with a team of 22 brewers and over 600 investors, Hop Stuff produce over 400 kegs of beer each week, available from the brewery’s own Taproom, as well as a number of bars and bottle shops. Aiming to ‘provide the perfect access point for those looking to explore the craft beer world’,...

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