Food and Drink

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. 45 Jermyn Street – Piccadilly Attempting to recapture "a golden age of glamour" with the reopening of the Fountain brasserie under the new guise of 45 Jermyn Street. Having originally opened within Fortum & Mason – London’s most British department store – six decades ago, the newly refurbished all-day restaurant will...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Strength: 4.8% ABV Brewed: Hackney Wick, London Having already expressed our regards towards Crate’s core range offerings, on more than one occasion, the time has arrived for the Hackney Wick-based brewery’s humble Lager to soak up the spotlight. Brewed on site, like their other Beers, Crate Lager is available by the bottle or in a 50-litre keg, delivering a translucent orange appearance when poured, topped with a thin head. Aromas of biscuit and hops are...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Alike the rest of the City, London’s restaurant scene is a titanic melting pot of universal cultures. Throughout our fair city one can eat almost anything, from the most fetid of dishes through to some of the Earth’s finest, using the most luxurious and limited ingredients on offer. Unfortunately, however, there’s nowhere near enough Egyptian food. Well, there’s not enough authentic Egyptian food, at least. Fortunately, one new opening in Kensington is flying the...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Originally opened in 1970s New York, named after randomly chosen surnames from the owners’ local telephone directory, Smith & Wollensky landed in London earlier this year, marking the chain’s first UK opening. Taking over a vast space within the iconic Adelphi Building, just a stone’s throw from Charing Cross and Covent Garden, the décor inside offers just as much glamour as we’d come to expect from the Manhattan Steakhouse staple. Monochrome-mural flooring joins ritzy...

A decadent recipe from Cutter & Squidge.

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Created by Felix Cohen, owner and founder of The Manhattans Project – the team behind the much discussed Cocktails on offer at POND, a Hawaiian restaurant in a hidden location just a stones throw from Dalston’s hip centre, the American Gothic is this week’s featured recipe. “Classic cocktails, done right” is the main mantra from the Manhattan Project and available for just three months, the American Gothic is a must try; comprising Rye Whiskey, Calvados, sugar syrup and...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Peckham-based ‘craft meat’ business – Serious Pig, specialising in quality charcuterie, is leading a ‘craft, not crap’ campaign to prevent brands from misleading customers about unhealthy, overly processed junk food in an attempt to inspire the nation to embrace some more authentic snacks. The campaign follows the news of leading scientists, writing in the British Medical Journal, recently calling for a ban on artificial trans fats from processed food, claiming that this could save...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Strength: 3.8% ABV Brewed: Ellon, Scotland Tired of a market dominated by industrially brewed Lagers and Ales, the team behind BrewDog set up the world’s first crowd-funded brewery in 2007. Now operating from a site in Ellon, just north of Aberdeen, a community of over 14,500 investors owns the business, with shares in the brewery still available. And what’s more, the brewery that’s made for the people, by the people is still constantly striving...

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent The restaurant industry is set to be ‘Uberised’ by a new app which offers customers a bill splitting option when booking a private chef at home. La Belle Assiette, an online marketplace that matches professional chefs to clients, has created the new feature after research found 79 per cent of English customers split the bill in restaurants. Customers can now pay only part of the bill when booking a chef, with menus priced ‘per guest’...