Food and Drink

This week's beer tip comes straight from our back yard as the capital celebrates the first (and only) beer in the country to boast a genuine "London terroir". Borough Market’s new limited edition beer, an Earl Grey Saison, features hops grown on the market's glass fronted hall which were sustainably fertilised with a combination of recycled coffee grounds from traders and rain water harvested from the market’s roof. Curated by expert nomadic brewer, Daniel Tapper of The Beak brewery, the...

“At least this rain is very good for the grapes,” announces Olympia Rizzardi of Guerrieri Rizzardi, a historic wine house in Italy’s Veneto region. It’s a wet Saturday morning and I’m perched under an umbrella, sheltering from the torrential downpour while traipsing the vineyards overlooking Lake Garda. Adverse weather aside, the Veronese countryside remains perfectly picturesque. Sun bleached marogne dry-stone buildings dominate the landscape, joined by rolling hills, Cypresses and Persimmons. Here, the grape yield is used to produce the...

Who doesn't love pizza? The cheesy, saucy, and heavenly taste of pizza is something everyone couldn't get enough of. There's little wonder why you've become interested in building your own pizza business and share this piece of goodness with others. But you probably know how competitive this space is, with pizza chains and franchises dominating the national market. As a budding startup, how can you carve out your own space and make enough noise to capture the attention of loyal...

Westfield has never been a dining destination. Yet with Christmas lurking just around the corner, the annual boom of popularity surrounding the nation’s shopping centres is also looming. As a result, many shopping centre restaurants will also become equitable suggestions for lunch or dinner to fuel/follow a mammoth shopping trip. In a relatively quiet corner of Westfield Stratford City, All Star Lanes joins restaurants such as Shake Shack, Five Guys and TGI Friday’s, also championing their own interpretation of American...

The ground-breaking research saw allergists build up people's tolerance to peanuts by feeding them a small amount every day for over a year

Lewisham councillors voted unanimously in favour of an application for a new micro-pub in Hither Green last night. MathBrew, which will sell “quality beer and real ale” with the intention of making a “community pub” for locals to gather, was granted planning permission to open on Springbank Road. Councillor Silvana Kelleher said the pub could bring some “much needed life” back into the area, particularly commercial areas around the train station, which “suffered terribly in the 80s and hasn’t recovered...

At the beginning of each week, renowned chop restaurant Blacklock hosts Butcher Price Mondays: an incentive to lure customers with outstandingly reasonable large cuts, ultimately filling seats on the quietest night of the week. Large cuts are priced at £5 per 100 grams, rather than between £5-7. A porterhouse steak, for instance, costs £5 per 100 grams compared to £9.50 at Hawksmoor. This is just one of the strengths that has steadied Blacklock in the choppy waters of restaurateuring in...

A technique first used by NASA to grow crops in space has been successfully adapted to work on Earth

Hide, the multi-faceted restaurant from Ollie Dabbous and Hedonism Wines, has enjoyed much acclaim since opening in April. Set across three floors, the 250-cover venue is home to three semi-separate venues: Above, a fine dining, tasting menu-only restaurant; Ground, a less formal space which champions Dabbous’ unmistakeable cooking style; and Below – fronted by Oskar Kinberg, formerly of Oskar’s Bar beneath Dabbous in Fitzrovia. Down the now-famous oak staircase, Hide Below occupies the Piccadilly basement, bedecked with numerous nods to...