Food and Drink
Food & Drink guide to St Patrick’s Day 2019 in London
In honour of Ireland’s Patron Saint, St Patrick’s Day falls on a Sunday (17th March) this year. Alongside ‘official’ London celebrations taking place this weekend – notably including a huge parade – many of the city’s bars and restaurants will celebrate in their own unique way this week and into the weekend. We pick the most exciting events taking place this year. A week of St Patrick’s Day celebrations at Corrigan’s Mayfair and Dickie’s Bar Honouring the Irish heritage of Chef...
Farmers making VODKA from potatoes too ‘ugly’ to sell in supermarkets
Graeme, 38, and wife Caroline Jarron, 36, process thousands of potatoes to a range of supermarkets each year.
Owner of Domino’s first UK store opens 1,100th 20 years on
The owner of Domino's first UK store in Luton will celebrate his 20th anniversary by opening the 1,100th store in Birmingham this week. Pizza tycoon Arshad Yasin, who started out as a delivery driver and now owns Domino’s first UK store, added the new store in Birmingham’s Star City to his portfolio of 23 stores across the UK. The 49-year-old entrepreneur now employs 900 people, including several family members. The announcement comes as Domino’s reported a nine per cent jump...
100 year old company crowned King of the 99s after winning best chocolate ice cream in Britain
The Kingstonian Ice Cream parlour has been around for 100 years and its chocolate flavour has been voted the best in the UK for a landmark three out of the past four years.
Vegan pie crowned Supreme Champion at first time of asking
A vegan pie has been crowned Supreme Champion at the first time of asking at the hotly contested British Pie Awards. The world-renowned Awards, which take place in the Rural Capital of Food, Melton Mowbray, saw close to 900 pies entered from a staggering 176 producers in a battle to be named “Pie of Pies”. The Awards mark the grand crescendo of British Pie Week (4th – 8th March 2019) each year. The Curried Sweet Potato and Butternut Squash Vegan...
Alexander McDonald mocked on social media after being jailed for raiding McDonald’s restaurant
The prolific crook has a string of more than 40 previous convictions
Restaurant Review: BOWLS. Soho
It seems, in the world of today, that every restaurant must have a concept. It can’t just be good food, either. It must be something more. I won’t be the first to tell you I’d be happier if all restaurants had at least that: good food. Leave your avocado at home, my friends, just focus on the quality of what you’re presenting your guests with. That said, I’m not quite as old timey as I sound. I do like a...
Watch – ‘Grow Your Own Brexit Survival Kit’ – to combat food shortages in event of no deal Brexit
An imaginative garden centre has released a Grow Your Own Brexit Survival Kit - to combat food shortages in the event of a no deal Brexit. Bosses at the centre have created a pack of 12 different vegetable seeds to plant, which can provide a year-round supply of nutritious food. The full kit is £34 and provides 12 packs of easy-to-grow seeds, including carrots, peas, lettuce, tomatoes, broccoli, broad beans, spinach, kale and pumpkin. Credit;swns Paul Carmichael, the retail general...
Spirit of the Week: Salcombe Gin ‘Start Point’
Salcombe Distilling Co. has enjoyed tremendous growth since launching in 2016, born from a love of gin and a dream “to produce the finest white spirit in the world, within one of the most stunning coastal towns”. Set up by co-founders Angus Lugsdin and Howard Davies, who met over 20 years ago while working as sailing instructors at the Island Cruising Club in Salcombe, Devon, the distillery occupies the club’s former site and is thus one of the world’s only distilleries...