Food and Drink

With plenty of exciting restaurant launches constantly taking place across the Capital, we pick London’s best new restaurant openings taking place over the coming month. Kym’s by Andrew Wong – City One of the year’s most exciting new restaurant openings, Andrew Wong is set to open Kym’s in the Bloomberg Arcade. Following the huge success of his eponymous restaurant near Victoria, Kym’s will be a modern ‘premium casual’ Chinese restaurant, named after Andrew’s parents’ restaurant opened in 1985 – reopened as A.Wong in 2012....

 Bristol-based animal welfare charity Viva! is launching its new campaign, Trash. The campaign aims to raise awareness of the forgotten victims of the dairy industry – male calves – and forms just one part of their ongoing campaign to highlight the dark side of dairy. To mark the launch of Trash, Viva! has commissioned two giant vegan billboards to appear on one of the busiest stretches of motorway in the UK for the first two weeks of October. The emotional billboards feature young calves...

Beer AND doughnuts you say? Why has this not been a thing until now? Last weekend those lucky enough to be at Goose Islands LDN Block Party got an opportunity to sample such delights. The Goose Island Beer Company teamed up with Crosstown Doughnuts to offer pairings such as Roasted Peach Doughnut with Goose Halia and Sea Salt Caramel with Goose Bourbon Country Stout. First on the menu was a pairing of Vegan Lemon-Thyme doughnut with Goose Sofie. This was...

Council chiefs want all businesses that serve food to customers in England to be forced to display food hygiene ratings - just like ones in Wales and Northern Ireland now have to

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Named after the old Cockney name given to the De Beauvoir area of London, where the brewery was born in 2011, Beavertown now operates from a site in Tottenham Hale. Having upgraded to a premises with a 50HL Brew House to work from, Beavertown has become renowned for crafting a core range of stunning beers, as well as some more adventurous seasonal offerings. Moreover, the brewery also asserts some of the most striking label visuals to decorate their range of cans. A...

Beneath The Dorchester – one of London’s most unanimously luxurious hotels – China Tang is not a modern Chinese restaurant; nor does it attempt to be. Opened by the late Sir David Tang in 2005, the grand basement restaurant’s a la carte menu is embedded in Cantonese standards: deeply comforting and shrouded with warm familiarity, yet ultimately expensive. Accessible via a separate entrance on Park Lane, or through the hotel’s opulent lobby (try to avoid losing your shoes in the...

GAIL’s has announced the UK’s first loaf made with leftover bread, available from this October. The Waste Bread is a sourdough made by turning surplus bread into a porridge, which is then added into the dough. The bread’s tacky, textured crumb sits beneath a thick crust; but because every day’s leftovers are different, every loaf has its own slightly distinct taste. Launching in select GAIL’s on the 11th October, the Waste Bread continues the company’s commitment to sustainability and the...

Established in 1988, Brooklyn Brewery started life as journalist Steve Hindy’s home brewing project. Enlisting his neighbour, Tom Potter, as a partner, the pair’s brewery has always been dedicated to brewing and selling great beer: now recognised as an international beacon for good beer. With an impressive brewing history, some of Brooklyn’s earliest residents from Germany, Belgium and other brew-centric countries brought their passion and knowledge to New York, ultimately making Brooklyn one of America’s most productive brewing centres during...