Food and Drink

Following suit with designers such as Burberry, Hackett and watchmakers Larsson & Jennings, Ralph Lauren have opened a new food and drink-based venue within their flagship store on Regent Street. Ralph’s Coffee & Bar joins the likes of The Polo Club in New York, RL Restaurant in Chicago and Ralph’s in Paris, and thus marks the brand’s first space dedicated to food and drink in the UK. The intimate space has table seating enough for 24, plus 12 stools at...

Following the success of last year’s S.Pellegrino Young Chef competition, four of the UK and Ireland’s leading chefs have partnered with S.Pellegrino in a global search to find the world’s best young chef. Earlier this week, a launch breakfast at Café Murano witnessed the competition’s four chef judges and mentors gather to discuss the competition, along with last year's UK & Ireland winner George Kataras of M Threadneedle Street. The four chef judges include Angela Hartnett MBE, Alyn Williams, Phil Howard...

"Ramen," somebody recently probed as I gushed adoringly about the food of Japan (again), "that's just noodle soup, isn't it?" Like a besieged tom cat ready to challenge the neighbours' pit bull, my back arched instinctively and I cascaded into an explosive rant. Ramen is far more than just noodle soup. The exact origins or ramen are unclear. There’s a great deal of speculation that links ramen to China, gastronomically speaking, but its Japan that’s generally regarded the rightful home...

Brewed: St Austell, Cornwall Strength: 4.9% Originally founded in Cornwall by Walter Hicks in 1851, St Austell Brewery is still 100 per-cent family owned and renowned for brewing some of the South-West’s most popular beers. In addition to brewing their own beers from a brewery overlooking the bay of St Austell, their Small Batch Brewery builds on the success of a previous micro-brewery, allowing St Austell’s team of brewers to constantly experiment with new flavours and styles. Eureka, for instance, was...

Though so many of London’s Thai restaurants are unapologetically bad, the popularity of Thai food (as well as Vietnamese) is currently booming. So, considering London has one of the world’s most diverse restaurant scenes, it’s astonishing that Laotian food has taken so long to become established throughout the city. It’s undeniable that Lao cuisine has contributed significantly to Thai food becoming an international phenomenon, yet so few menus throughout Europe give the landlocked country between Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia any...

In 2015, it was reported that more than 300 million portions of fish and chips are eaten in Britain each year, with cod being the most popular choice, by far. Battered fish, is fine – but with such rapidly depleting stocks of cod, it’s difficult to understand why so many of us traditionally eat it, almost religiously, each Friday night. Let’s be honest, more than 99 per-cent of us would struggle to tell the difference between a tranche of battered...

St David’s Day this week and though it may not be showing in the skies above us quite yet, the official start of spring means there’s no better way to toast Wales’ patron saint than with a glass, or a few, of Welsh beer. Traditional breweries abound, of course, but Wales is noisily playing its own part in the craft beer renaissance, staking its claim on the demand for flavour-packed, inventive and exciting brews. Here’s Rob Eveleigh of craft beer bottle...

Breakfast is the most crucial meal of the day, and therefore you should not skip it no matter what. Apart from having breakfast, it is essential that you ensure that you eat a healthy meal that is balanced. There are various ways that you can fix your meal quickly if you are in a hurry. Therefore, always make sure that you take you to breakfast before you head to work, school or wherever you are planning on going. This meal...

Castleford in Yorkshire will be the first host of WoodFest - a weekend festival celebrating beers served from traditional wooden casks. The 2017 SPBW WoodFest is set to run from Thursday 6th to Saturday 8th July at the Horse and Jockey pub which is home to the first brewery to have a wooden mash tun installed for the purpose of brewing since 1914. As more brewers and publicans revert back to the traditional use of wooden casks the festival will look...