Food and Drink

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...

I’ve been following The Modern Pantry on social media for some time now. The restaurant’s ethos of fusing store-cupboard ingredients with global flavours to create something special is one that speaks to my heart (and stomach), and it seems I’m not the only one, as the venue celebrates its 10th year of success. Since opening, The Modern Pantry has enjoyed two AA rosettes and a feature in the Michelin Guide, while creator Anna Hansen has also been showcased as one...

Mulled wine is a Christmas staple in Britain, and nothing gets you in the festive mood more than the tastes and aromas of mulling spices heated with a rich bottle of red. According one of the earliest recipes found in a medieval cookery book from 1390 "Pur fait Ypocras" is made by grinding together cinnamon, ginger, galangal, cloves, long pepper, nutmeg, marjoram, cardamom and grains of paradise with red wine and sugar. But thanks to modern consumer trends we've largely done...

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