Food and Drink

More than 700 people have bought the 'Brexit Box', which contains enough food for one person to survive without anything else for a month

Taking place alongside Burns Night (25th January), this year, Scotch Whisky Weekend is a new mini festival from DrinkUp.London in partnership with Scotchwhisky.com. Moreover, a number of London bars will also celebrate Scotch Whisky Weekend, with four days of cocktail tours championing £6 cocktails for Festival Pass holders. For the event, Shoreditch bar Callooh Callay has collaborated with Monkey Shoulder on a limited-edition whisky cocktail – the ‘Super Freak’ - available throughout January, served in a miniature disco ball. Speaking...

Hidden away in a cobbled mews in Smithfield is one of the area’s oldest restaurants. Launched in 1986 and named for its proximity to Smithfield Market, Le Café du Marché is a family owned French restaurant. Founded by Charlie Graham-Wood, whose family came from Lyon, and now owned and run by his daughter, Sophie, the ambition for Le Café du Marché was to serve honest authentic French food to London. The recently renovated venue’s atmosphere certainly conveys memories of restaurants...

Launched by the duo behind acclaimed Soho restaurant 10 Greek Street and a team of drinks specialists, Braybooke Beer Co. operates with particular focus on food pairing. Alongside restaurateurs Luke Wilson and Cameron Emirali, Biercraft distributor Nick Trower and Stephan Michel, owner of Mahr’s Bräu in Bamberg, established the project after noticing a gap in the market for a versatile, thirst-quenching, German-style lager. Following a visit to Michel’s brewery in Bamberg, Germany, an idea for a British-brewed version was conceived....

“A fusion of Mediterranean products and traditional Japanese cuisine techniques,” ‘Meppon’ is a brand new cuisine spearheaded by the team behind ZELA - a restaurant backed by Cristiano Ronaldo, Rafael Nadal, Enrique Iglesias and NBA star Pau Gasol. Following the success of MABEL Hospitality’s Ibiza restaurant of the same name, another ZELA was launched in London at the end of last year, taking over a space within the ME London Hotel, alongside Radio Rooftop and STK London. Past the doorman...

The flaming hot fillet of fish is coated in a blazing batter made from ten heat-packed ingredients and then doused in chillies and hot sauce

Always being hungry, wasting hours planning mealtimes and being permanently 'in a mood' are among a list of common misconceptions about life as a vegan, it has emerged. A study of 2,000 adults revealed many are in a pickle over what it means to be vegan amid a belief that 'you can't eat in many restaurants' and also that 'you have to take back-up options with you as nowhere caters for vegans'. Researchers also found half of the population reckon...

Damien Hirst’s Pegasus centrepiece has been the subject of much publicity since Caprice Holdings announced plans to open Brasserie of Light in Selfridges at the end of last year. But with the crystal-studded instillation and its 30-foot wingspan dominating the restaurant, it’s perhaps unsurprising that some of the food served seems like a slight afterthought. The final part of the department store’s £300 million investment into its London flagship, Brasserie of Light is the latest from Richard Caring’s Caprice Holdings,...

Celebrating an alpine winter classic, Le Pont de la Tour has launched a unique cheese room experience for January, specifically championing fondue. While arguments often take place over whether fondue’s origins lie with France or Switzerland, Le Pont de la Tour is decidedly French, opened by Sir Terence Conran at the beginning of the 1990s. D&D London has since taken over the Shad Thames restaurant. Occupying a former Victorian warehouse complex, the operation is split into two components: a lavish...