Food and Drink

“The world’s oldest sandwich” is not the most appealing of tag-lines. Visions of that episode of The Simpsons, in which Homer falls ill after eating a ten-foot hoagie from the nuclear power plant’s company picnic are instantly conjured: the bread having turned purple and cloaked with fungus after a few weeks of stubborn perseverance. Instead, the label actually refers to the roujiamo (literally “meat sandwich”) – a street food staple originating from the Shaanxi Province in China. Now considered the...

Oxford University student and beer enthusiast Jack Weatherilt has been branded an 'everyday hero' after he spent part of his holiday on the drinking tool.

Established in 2013, Northern Monk operates between two sites in Leeds. Focussing on creating the best beer experiences in the world, the independent brewery moved into Holbeck’s Old Flax Store site (a Grade II-listed mill) at the end of 2014: home to the brewery, The Refectory tap room and Chapter Hall event space. To meet demand, Northern Monk expanded into a Sydenham Road site in 2017, housing a much larger brewery, warehouse and storage facility. Here, a 12-fill head, 6,000...

Celebrated food writer Jack Monroe is set to release a cook book for food bank users to help those on a shoestring budget maintain a nutritious, appetising and varied diet. Tin Can Cook focuses on using tinned or dried ingredients and is inspired by Monroe’s own experience of using food banks. It will feature 75 recipes that are easy to rustle up from basic ingredients. They include tinned spud fishcakes, sardine and tomato soup and tindade - a twist on...

St Luke’s Table is leading the march to revolutionise the fine dining experience for the UK’s growing community of vegans with a new luxury plant-based menu in the heart of Theatreland. Residing within the LIBRARY hotel and private members' club the restaurant is hidden away from the hubbub of Leicester Square and Covent Garden. It is accessed via a staircase illuminated by a stunning stained-glass panel featuring Saint Luke himself - the patron saint of artists and bookbinders – and...

English Wine Week is upon us and this year there are more reasons than ever to raise a glass to the country’s burgeoning viticultural scene. With growers planting some 3 million vines from Yorkshire to Kent and a tropical summer bringing ideal growing conditions last year there is a bumper crop to enjoy this summer from a market that is enjoying critical acclaim across the world. Wine lovers from America, China, Japan and elsewhere have taken a keen interest in...

It wasn’t always like this. Hotel restaurants were once, until quite recently, generally considered a last resort, aimed at guests too tired or unadventurous to explore the local area. During the late 1800s, Auguste Escoffier revolutionised hotel dining when hired by César Ritz, with the pair eventually collaborating on the food offering at the Savoy Hotel, closely followed by the Ritz in Paris. Between then and now, however, a wave of hoteliers became avaricious, idle, uninspired and – ultimately -...

A destination bar within The Langham – Europe’s first ‘Grand Hotel’ – Artesian Bar has launched a new minimalist cocktail menu. Focussing on the mantra ‘less is more’, the list’s 22 new cocktails aim to champion just two flavour combinations. Over the space of eight months, the venue’s award-winning team of bartenders collaborated on developing the new menu, with drinks created in the Artesian laboratory, pairing thoughtfully-sourced spirits with just one key ingredient or flavour, exploring new methods of preparation...

University of Sussex Flat Earth Society are expecting to host more than 800 people at their first ever official ball - which will see students and like-minded thinkers gather to talk about how they think the earth is not round.