Since launching in 2002, Zuma has become renowned as one of London’s (if not the world’s) best loved contemporary Japanese restaurants. Introducing the Japanese robata grill to Europe, Zuma’s original site occupies an isolated Knightsbridge side street, launched by chef/restaurateur Rainer Becker and business partner Arjun Waney. Born in in...
Thanks to the efforts of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation), the importance of Día de los Muertos was recognised in 2008, added to the organisation’s list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. As a result, the festival –meaning ‘Day of the Dead’ in English – has seen...
According to recent YouGov Omnibus research, beef is generally regarded as Britain’s favourite centrepiece meat for roast dinners. (33 per-cent of participants favoured roast beef, followed by roast chicken at 27 per cent). It’s thus unsurprising that the Sunday roast at the new Beef and Brew in Haggerston has quickly...
With a name inspired by the four core ingredients used to produce beer (grain, yeast, hops and water), Fourpure Brewing Co. recently celebrated their fifth birthday, having launched as a family-run brewery in October 2013. Since then, the brewery has gone from strength to strength, now regarded as one of...
Named after an old English drink of warm ale, gin, wormwood and spices, Purl London occupies a vaulted cellar in Marylebone. Opened in 2010, the bar was one of the first to join a new wave of prohibition-era speakeasy bars, having since become renowned for an innovative approach to cocktails,...
In the spring of 2016, the team behind Trullo in Islington opened small Italian restaurant opened on the fringe of Borough Market. Reservations weren’t accepted; service was quick, making it possible to devour three courses within the hour, and the accessibly priced menu had a prominent focus on ascetic pasta...
After spending the entire summer complaining about the blistering heat (I’m British, it’s what I’m good at), I recently caved and reached for the thermostat, having been left undisturbed for the past seven months. Erstwhile, the leaves are discolouring and dropping; the days are getting shorter, and Oxford Street is...
Earlier this year, new figures published by the Wine and Spirit Trade Association have shown that annual rum sales in Britain have surpassed £1billion for the first time. As a result, rum now ranks alongside whisky and gin as one of the nation’s favourite spirits. Beside a collection of famed...
Sustainability is at the heart of Nine Lives, a neighbourhood bar tucked away on Hollyrood Street, near London Bridge station. Opened last year as a project from Sweet&Chilli, the bar is committed to reducing their carbon footprint: many of the ingredients used are sourced from the bar’s own back garden,...