By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Located within a Hoxton backstreet away from the main drag, acclaimed bartenders Ryan Chetiyawardana and Iain Griffiths opened The White Lyan a couple of years ago, reinstalling life into an old East London pub. At present, the drinking scene in London is remarkable, especially in the east, yet as is the case with most anything, although already spoilt for choice, the city’s most discerning drinkers are constantly searching for new dens to frequent, bars that...
Food products such as Dolmio pasta sauces and Uncle Ben's Rice should only be consumed once a week due to high salt, sugar or fat content. Mars Food, the firm behind the supermarket staples, said it will distinguish between "everyday" and "occasional" items on packs and on its website. The announcement comes following Chancellor George Osborne's sugar tax, which aims to tackle childhood obesity by putting a levy on products that are high in sugar. Mars Food has started a Health and...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Strength: 6.5% Brewed: Manchester, England Set up at the end of 2014, Cloudwater Brew Co. is a Manchester-based brewery that operates from an ex warehouse space, just a stone’s throw from the city centre. Initially inspired by a Copenhagen Beer Celebration, the brewery was set up with a respect for the changing of seasons at its very heart, specialising in producing a fine range of constantly changing seasonal beers. In celebration of the spring...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Having worked within the kitchens of some of Europe’s most prestigious restaurants – notably Can Fabes near Barcelona and L’Atelier Joël Robuchon here in London – multi award winning pastry chef Joakim Prat opened his first solo venture last year. Located close to Kensington’s French Lycée, just seconds from South Kensington underground station, Maître Choux specialises in choux pastry, unsurprisingly, crafting the most intricately beautiful and tantalisingly delicious éclairs available outside a Three Michelin-starred...
A light and refreshing Vietnamese mango salad recipe with plump tiger prawns.
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Joining three previous openings across the city, the popular Barrio group opened their fourth venue earlier this year, taking over a space in Brixton. In addition, the group have also developed a new drinks menu which has been initially introduced at the new Brixton space, specially curated by the ‘Salts of the Earth’ team and heavily inspired by the local area. From the new menu, this week’s cocktail recipe is Barrio Brixton’s ‘Voodoo Mama’,...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food It’s no secret that we Brits are extremely proud of our tried and tested queuing system. While there’s no set rule or law that requires us to spend life forming an orderly queue, we’re somehow born with an innate desire to follow societal norms, with queuing being amongst the most popular, taking place multiple times on a daily basis. In many ways, the notion of queuing is magnificent: supermarket trips, for instance, are already...
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Strength: 6% Brewed: Akureyi, Iceland Named after the Icelandic word for “unique” – Einstök Brewery is located within the fishing port of Akureyi, 60 miles south of the Arctic Circle. Boasting some of the Earth’s purest water, flowing from rain and prehistoric glaciers through the Hlíðarfjall Mountain and ancient lava fields, which allows the brewery to craft some truly brilliant beers. With three beers available from their core range, including a truly remarkable white ale, pale ale...
Doncaster has been named the best place to get a properly-served pint in Britain. A report by pub watchdog Cask Marque and monitoring firm Vianet has confirmed that there is a north/south divide when it comes to the quality of beer. Pubs in the North were found to be more likely to keep their beer in best condition and to serve it through clean pipes, whereas drinkers in the South generally consume worse pints at a higher price! Northerners pay up...
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