Food and Drink
Tokimeite Partner With Suntory Whisky for London Restaurant Festival
Tying in with the annual London Restaurant Festival, Japanese restaurant Tokimeite will partner with Suntory Japanese whisky to host a one-off event on 27th October. Set to showcase the very best of Japanese food and drink, the restaurant will offer a sixteen-course ‘Kaiseki’ menu, specially prepared by one of Japan’s most highly acclaimed chefs - Yoshihiro Murata. What’s more, the menu will be paired with a range of specially selected Beam Suntory whiskies, chosen by brand ambassador Mike Miyamoto to...
How To Make The Perfect… Mushrooms on Toast with Venison
Set up last year by Great British Menu winner Richard Bainbridge, Benedicts in Norwich has been named Norfolk’s Best Restaurant in this year’s Norfolk Food and Drink Awards. Having previously worked at the Michelin-starred Morston Hall, also in Norfolk, the chef has shared the recipe for his simple albeit impressive dish of venison and Girolle mushrooms on toast. “This is a beautifully simple dish that is classy and grown up. It sings autumn! Perfect as a Starter or as Main...
T2 Launch Vegetable-Based Teas With In-store Living Garden Installation
As part of a campaign to launch their new vegetable-based teas, Australian loose leaf tea specialists T2 have teamed up with landscape architects and Chelsea Flower Show winners the Rich Brothers, having created a living garden installation inside T2’s Chelsea store. Marking the launch of Veggie Patch, a new range of vegetable-based teas, T2’s Kings Road store has been turned into an ‘autumnal wonderland’ designed to reflect the seasonal change, using a range of shrubbery, trees, herbs and vegetables to...
World’s First Vegan Club Forest Green Rovers Win ‘Menu of the Year’
The World's first vegan football club Forest Green Rovers have been awarded Menu of the Year and praised for their innovative approach to sustainability. The Sport and Leisure Catering Magazine Awards, held at BAFTA in London, saw the Cotswolds' club take the acclaim, thanks to their matchday kitchen which is led by Nicolas Allan and head chef Em Franklin. Grosvenor Casinos and the Tower of London were also up for the award, with other winners from the night including Lord’s Cricket Ground,...
The Weekly Cocktail Recipe – White Lyan’s ‘Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Nitro Martini’
Generally regarded as one of London’s finest and most innovative bars, White Lyan in Hoxton have teamed up with Jack Daniel's for their first collaborative cocktail. Since opening, the bar has become renowned for crafting some ingeniously unique cocktails, all of which are pre-batched and use no perishable ingredients. White Lyan’s take on the classic espresso martini, for instance, uses Jack Daniel’s Old No.7 instead of a more traditional vodka base and is poured from a tap using nitrogen gas....
Mussel Beach Comes to Shoreditch
An immersive exploration of the sights, smells and flavours of Scotland’s mussels has come to the streets of Shoreditch. Shining a light on one of Britain’s most interesting – and often underrated - produce, the unique experience will give the public the opportunity to explore the Isle of Mull and the Scottish mussel. Inspired by the peak of the mussel season, which runs September to March when British mussels are at their best, ‘Mussel Beach’ will recreate the stunning scenery...
London Dubbed “Beer Boom City”
London has been dubbed a 'Beer Boom City' by the Campaign for Real Ale, CAMRA. The 2017 edition of the Good Beer Guide (GBG) charts the remarkable rebirth of brewing in London, naming the capital a beer boom city almost half a century after dubbing it a “beer desert”. The guide lists 69 breweries, with five more due to open in the near future. “London is once again one of the world’s great brewing cities,” editor Roger Protz says. “Choice for...
Beer of the Week – The London Beer Factory’s ‘Beyond The Pale’
Strength: 4.2% Brewed: West Norwood, London Founded in 2014 by brothers Ed and Sim Cotton, The London Beer Factory operates from South-East London’s increasingly trendy West Norwood. Dedicated to crafting beers with character, unique flavours and distinctive qualities, they are also the first ever UK brewery to use 360° cans, with a unique ring pull design that allows the lid to be removed completely, allowing a full spectrum of tastes and aromas to be enjoyed, without the need for any...
Restaurant Review – 100 Islington
Trends and crazes come and go with the turn of the season, yet it’s unlikely that the kitchens focussing on small sharing plates that arrive at the table as and when they are ready will be vanishing any time soon. And though this rapid increase in popularity has managed to divide opinion over the past year or so; it’s clear that sharing plates venues are the in thing for 2016. They are the the Pokémon Go, the Facebook politicians, and...