Food and Drink

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent  The biggest decisions in life are made in the kitchen, new research reveals. A typical homeowner makes 208 important decisions while in the kitchen each year, with career moves, kids’ schooling and relationship chats among the burning issues. Research into the home lives of 2,000 people uncovered the kitchen as the hub of the home, with four in 10 saying it’s the most likely room to play host to ‘family meetings’. One in 10 made...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Over the past couple of years, there’s been a rapid growth in focus on sharing within some of London’s best restaurants. Personally, I have absolutely no qualms against this ‘Social Food’ concept, as OPSO put it. However, most Londoners (and most of my friends) are a bit selfish when it comes to Food and they’re not so keen on the concept of sharing. Unfortunately, this is a bit of a disadvantage for restaurants such...

Six-time World Pizza Champion, Bruno DiFabio's pizza dough recipe provides the perfect base for a New York pizza.

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Set up as an evolution from the regular Cocktail of the Day on diffordsguide.com, which was inspired by a trip to Barcelona back in 2009, the new ‘Difford’s Guide: 365 Days of Cocktails’ features an expansive selection of drinks with one perfectly fitting for every day of the year. What’s more there’s also an insightful introduction with an idiot-proof guide to Cocktail crafting, ideal for even the most inexperienced of home mixologists. Beginning with...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Opened as the sibling of Westminster’s Cinnamon Club, situated within a Grade II listed Library, Cinnamon Kitchen landed in East London’s Devonshire Square in 2008, just metres from Liverpool Street Station. While Brick Lane is generally regarded as the area’s prime Indian restaurant destination, Cinnamon Kitchen was surprisingly busy during our early dinner visit, leading up to the recent grand reopening of Cinnamon Club, having undergone a £1 million refurbishment, as well as the...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food It’s that time of year once again when Great Britain and Ireland’s foodie elite will flock to sample what’s on offer at the latest wave of restaurants to have been praised by the newly published Michelin Guide 2016, with the results having been published on Twitter, one day early. In total, this year’s comprehensive restaurant guide features 15 new One Star restaurants, two to be awarded Two Stars, and no new Three Stars, meanwhile...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Strength: 6% ABV Brewed: Hackney, London The Five Points Brewing Company is the latest of London’s microbreweries to have caught our attention. Based in the heart of East London’s Hackney, the brewery first started to become established in 2013, following their Five Points Pale Ale, and now there are four beers within the brewery’s core range – including Five Points Pale, Railway Porter, Five Points IPA, and Hook Island Red. The latter of which is...

A choux pastry recipe from Maitre Choux founder Joakim Prat.

Photo: © Yuki Sugiura By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food “This book, ‘My Kind Of Food’, is a document of my life in food, and of my travels and my loves,” begins the introduction to John Torode’s brand new cookbook. “Why did I decide to write it? Because cooking is what I do and what I have always done. I do it professionally and it is my way of life, but cooking is also the way I relax. It is...