Food and Drink

With a name inspired by the four core ingredients used to produce beer (grain, yeast, hops and water), Fourpure Brewing Co. recently celebrated their fifth birthday, having 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 Australian craft breweries Little Creatures and Malt Shovel Brewery, amongst others). Operating from...

A study across Europe found bowel cancer rates increased by six per cent every year between 2008 and 2016 among 20 to 39-year-olds

The health benefit was far greater for obese people however the diet had no significant effect on bowel or prostate cancers.

Home to a natural bounty of ingredients it should come as no surprise that Canada’s Atlantic province of New Brunswick is becoming one of the most celebrated foodie haunts of North America. From Beausoleils oysters farmed in floating trays off Miramichi Bay to oversized scallops and clams picked from the Bay of Fundy the region is flooded with delicious seafood that when paired with other local delicacies such as fiddlehead ferns and even tasty seaweed captures everything from the ridiculous...

“Someone once asked me what my favourite food was”, Chef Chris Aerni said as he tucked into ice cold slices of watermelon hand-picked from the gardens of the renowned Rossmount Inn in New Brunswick. “I say if you ask me now after a morning stroll in the sun then it is cold slices of watermelon, ask me later on it will be something different”. A simple philosophy it may be, but cooking what is good at the right time in...

Britain’s reliance on imported food was laid bare today after a new study revealed our nation's breakfast travels almost 20,000 miles to reach our plates. Using a popular supermarket as a barometer Gousto researchers were able to track how far a full English breakfast travels before it reaches the dining table, with the majority of ingredients covering several hundred miles. Only the bread, sausages, eggs and beans are produced locally and require just road haulage to get to the shops....

Named after an old English drink of warm ale, gin, wormwood and spices, Purl London occupies a vaulted cellar in Marylebone. Opened in 2010, the bar was one of the first to join a new wave of prohibition-era speakeasy bars, having since become renowned for an innovative approach to cocktails, often using culinary techniques. A venture from the team behind Worship Street Whistling Shop and Dach & Sons, Purl’s cocktail menu changes regularly, adhering to current trends while championing seasonal...

When you think Italian wine most people envisage a hot day spent lazily quaffing on terraces and verandas besieged by plates of bread, olives, freshly picked vine tomatoes and other assorted piattini. But switch these summer pleasers for classic beef ragu, a meaty pizza, or rich, tomato-based pastas and the best of the summer wines turn to the most idyllic picks for autumn, and we have a smashing number to kick things off. Made with indigenous local red grapes from...

This week we ventured over to 1766, the new front of house bar and restaurant at the historic Old Vic Theatre in Bristol. Turns out, we were in for a real treat.