Why You Should Order Chocolate With Your Steak
To celebrate Chocolate Week, Argentine-inspired restaurant Gaucho has created a special food and wine tasting menu that really shouldn’t be missed. CHOCOLATE AND WINE As the fifth largest wine...
View ArticleRock Star Cookbook for Teenage Cancer Trust
Rating: Patrice de Villiers is a world-renowned and astoundingly artful food photographer. When we met at her book launch for Teenage Cancer Trust at Quaglino’s in Mayfair, she spoke candidly of her...
View ArticleHot Rum Shack
With tabloids screaming of an arctic ‘big freeze’ imminently hitting London, Soho-based bar and restaurant Floridita’s hot rum menu is perfectly timed to warm the cold and weary, and get them into the...
View ArticleRuby Blue: Got the blues, somewhat reddened too
Rating: Went to ‘Ruby Blue’ in Leicester Square on a Saturday night with seven female colleagues. Lucky man, you should think. I’d paid £40 in advance for: a small bowl of soup; a plate of pasta; a...
View Article‘Philosofood’ Book Launch
Rating: An excellent evening at The London Particular launched Adam Hutchings’ and Chris Sav’s first foray into publishing. ‘Philosofood’ is essential reading for any self-respecting foodie, an adult...
View ArticleWhat’s on London visits the Cake and Bake Show: Preview
It’s official baking fever has taken over the country, and this year’s Cake and Bake Show at the London Excel Centre aims to showcase our best baking talents. The Cake & Bake Show, the UK’s biggest...
View ArticleThe Sherlock Holmes, Northumberland Street WC2
Rating: By Ian Cater, Chief Features Writer Benedict Cumberbatch, Robert Downey Jr, Jonny Lee Miller … whether you’ve been glued to the big or small screen, Sherlock Holmes’ cachet has never been...
View ArticleChez Mal, EC1M: restaurant review
Ian Cater, Chief Features Writer & Reviewer Heading below ground to escape a bustling Clerkenwell simmering from one of the hottest days of one of the hottest years felt like blessed relief....
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