Food and Drink
The Weekly Cocktail Recipe – Nightjar’s ‘Druid’s Botanist Cup’
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Born from a competition between five of London’s top bartenders – Druid’s Botanist Cup uses Islay’s first and only dry gin – The Botanist – and is currently available from the award-winning Nightjar in Shoreditch until the end of this month. Created by Nightjar’s Nikolett Maczo, the key focus and inspiration for the drink is foraging, using a range of specialty ingredients such as mahonia flowers and rowan berries both handpicked from Haggerston Park....
Beer of the Week – East London Brewing Company Jamboree Golden Ale
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Strength: 4.8% Brewed: Leyton, London Set up by a husband and wife team with the aim of crafting a range of high-quality, traditional British beers, the idea for the local community driven East London Brewing Company came about while the pair were expecting their second child. Now operating from a site in Leyton, the 10-barrel microbrewery produces draught and bottled beers, with a total of seven regular ales, as well as the odd seasonal...
Restaurant Review – Pharmacy 2
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Within some of London’s trendiest restaurants, the world of art is rarely far disconnected. A recent prime example is that of Mayfair’s Sexy Fish from Richard Caring’s Caprice Holdings: which, like most of his group’s restaurants was an instant smash hit addition to the area’s dining scene, with a table for two during a peak dinner hour still painfully arduous to secure. Aside from the apparently exceptional fish, and the celebrity clientele that frequent...
Restaurant Review – Novikov Asian
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food As is the case with most of its neighbouring powerhouses, Novikov – the eponymous London flagship of Russian restaurateur Arkady Novikov – is very much a place to be seen. A social media friendly temple of excess, frequented by women that dress and often look like supermodels, joined by men (often three times their age) that look like characters from GoodFellas, and very little in between. Having opened a few years ago, the huge...
Food & Drink Guide to Mother’s Day in London
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food With Mother’s Day fast approaching, and plenty of restaurants offering various special menus, here’s our last minute guide to the best restaurants to spend Mother’s Day in London this year. As far as London’s high-rise restaurants are concerned, the experience at Galvin at Windows is one of the finest. Located within the Hilton Park Lane hotel, incredible views across the city will be joined by a special Mother’s Day menu accompanied by a Bellini....
Beer of the Week: Einstök Icelandic White Ale
Named after the Icelandic word for “unique” – Einstök Brewery is located within the fishing port of Akureyi, 60 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
London’s Best New Restaurant Openings – March 2016
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food With plenty of exciting restaurant openings constantly taking place across the Capital, here’s our pick of the best new restaurants arriving in London over the coming month. Sosharu – Clerkenwell It’s been a long time coming, but Sosharu – the newest restaurant from Chef Jashon Atherton and Irha Atherton of The Social Company – is set to open next week. Marking the seventh London site from Jason Atherton, Sosharu will work as a Japanese izakaya-style restaurant, situated in...
The Italian Job: Restaurant Review
Craft beer is facing somewhat of an identity crisis. On the one hand microbreweries are opening in Britain at a rate of one every other day according to figures from the British Beer and Pub Association, but on the other hand many of the more noted brands have been gobbled up by mainstreamism. Ask for a definition of craft, therefore, and you will get something in between size and taste. For most brewers the former is the most important characteristic....
Restaurant Review – Bierschenke
By Adam Clark, @AdamClarkers Bierschenke promises an authentic German beer cellar experience in London, and has clearly found its niche, having moved out of its original space onto a huge multi-level site in the London wall buildings a few minutes walk from Liverpool Street Station. With a friend’s birthday to celebrate and a David Cameron-style weekend in Europe sadly impossible we went for the next best thing. The beer hall basics were done well, with piled plates of German sausage...