Food and Drink

With plenty of exciting launches constantly taking place across the Capital, we pick London’s best new restaurant openings taking place over the coming month. BAO – Borough Since launching a street food stall at Netil Market, BAO has garnered a cult following. Returning to a market setting, the Taiwanese restaurant will open its third permanent site on the fringe of Borough Market next week, accepting reservations for tables of five or more, with three new bao buns joining the new...

A captivating shot of a celebration of the goddess Nuwa, taken by Chinese photographer Jianhui Liao, has seized this year’s crown at Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2019, the world’s leading celebration of food photography and film. Liao was presented with the £5000 prize at the awards in front of an audience of four hundred guests at a glittering Champagne Taittinger reception packed with celebrities from the food and photography world.  Legendary musician and cheesemaker Alex James hosted...

Following the success of Brunswick House in Vauxhall, Jackson Boxer and Andrew Clarke worked together on a brand new project last Summer. Occupying a long stretch of Shoreditch often untroubled by footfall (compared to nearby Old Street and Great Eastern Street, at least), St Leonards quickly became one of 2018’s most highly-discussed, devoutly genuflected new openings. Anybody who was anybody was utilising the space’s natural light to photograph their charcoal-baked oysters or opinion-dividing foie gras chawanmushi, plastering them all over...

With a name inspired by the four core ingredients used to produce beer (grain, yeast, hops and water), Fourpure Brewing Co. launched as a family-run brewery in October 2013. Since then, the brewery has gone from strength to strength, now regarded as one of London’s most exciting craft beer producers, recently bought out by Australian-headquartered Lion (joining a portfolio which includes Magic Rock and Australian craft breweries Little Creatures and Malt Shovel Brewery). Operating from a site on Bermondsey Trading...

The EU courted controversy this week after suggesting it may ban names like 'burger' and 'sausage' for vegan and vegetarian food products. If the proposal is voted into effect next month, vegan and veggie burgers could become 'discs' and sausages 'tubes' instead of conventional names.  It would also outlaw the use of the word steak for products that do not contain meat, which became a topic of contention last year after Marks & Spencer slapped a hefty price tag on...

This shows that the interaction between smell and taste, the primary components of food flavour, may begin on the tongue and not in the brain as previously thought.

By Rich Jenkins Sitting on the site of what used to be MEATliquor– a classic case of wrong restaurant, wrong place, wrong time – is Masa + Mezcal, where Mexican street food begins knocking on the door of fine dining, in Stoke’s Croft, Bristol. Opened in March, it’s the latest brainchild of Bristol restaurateurs Kieran and Imogen Waite, who are also behind Cotham’s peerless Bravas; Bakers & Co, Gambas and Cargo Cantina on Wapping Wharf, where Masa + Mezcal had...

Ganjam contains CBD oil and, while being perfectly legal, is laced with cannabis.

The healthy eating plan includes lots of fruit, veg and the occasional meat dish.