Recipes
The Weekly Cocktail Recipe: Oskar Kinberg’s Peas ‘N’ Mint
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Renowned as one of London’s finest mixologists, Oskar Kinberg opened Dabbous with his friend and former colleague Ollive Dabbous at the start of 2012, in which he oversees the restaurant’s stylish bar area – Oskar’s Bar – which features a cocktail menu with uses all homemade syrups and infusions. On the menu, there’s an innovative selection of drinks, featuring a range of classics and signature creations from the man himself, including the likes of...
The Weekly Cocktail Recipe: Shaken Udder Top Banana Pina Colada
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Specialising in celebrating British milk and offering 100% natural low fat and low sugar milkshakes, Shaken Udder have a new range of drinks that are available to buy from some of the UK’s leading supermarkets. And tying in with the new drinks, the brand have shared the recipe for a delicious alcohol optional cocktail recipe. This delicious, creamy, thirst-quencher is perfect for a summer's day and can be made with or without alcohol. The...
The Weekly Cocktail Recipe: The Lucky Pig’s ‘Tomatini’
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food French-born Sebastien Guesdon has made quite a name for himself over the past two decades. Having worked for acclaimed bars such as The Ritz hotel’s Rivoli Bar, Galvin at Windows, and the bar at roast, the qualified mixologist now serves as the general manager of The Lucky Pig and head barman at The Lucky Pig’s new Fulham venue. So in celebration of the opening, Guesdon has shared a recipe for Jimmy Barrat’s original ‘Tomatini’...
Restaurant Owner Creates Britain’s Tallest Burger
By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent A restaurant owner has created Britain's tallest burger which towers higher than his own daughter. The whopping two-and-a-half-foot '999 burger' trumps the previous UK record by several inches and contains enough calories to feed one person everyday for two weeks. Created by Chef Craig Harker of The George in Stockton, Teeside, the culinary masterpiece is bigger than his one-year-old daughter who stands at 2ft. The leaning tower of meat is made of three seeded buns, ten gourmet burgers and one slice of...
Easter Wines to Impress
By Charlotte Hope, Lifestyle Editor @TLE-Lifestyle How’s your sommelier knowledge? Personally, the graph with which I work when drinking wine used to be ‘drinkable’to ‘not that drinkable but I’ll drink it’to ‘that’s just probably vinegar’. Over the last few years I’ve really thrown myself into drinking heaps of wine, on the ultimate selfless journey to find you, dear reader, the optimum bottle for the food that you’re ingesting. With this in mind, I bring to you four offerings for your...
Brits Unveil Their Top ‘Posh’ Foods
Cous cous, prawns and kale are among the foods which millions of Brits consider as ‘posh’, a survey revealed. The detailed study also found risotto, pesto and fajitas made the list as did hummus, sushi and sea bass. Italian cheese mozzarella, rocket and even beetroot are also now considered up-market. The study showed that eight in ten Brits feel that certain foods are seen as ‘trendy’ now and that like everything thing else, foods come in and out of fashion. It also...