Food and Drink

Named after Brighton’s famous West Pier, Lost Pier Brewing is a relatively new craft beer producer operating from Chiddinglye Farm in Sussex. Each of the brewery’s eight inventive beers are unpasteurised, unfiltered, vegan and naturally cloudy – canned with an eye-catching label designed by Brighton-based artist Mister Phil. According to Lost Pier’s website, the renowned local artist “has managed to capture the West Pier and the seafront in his unique artistic way. His authentic, vibrant, and happy artwork is what...

Gordon Craig, 33, has been one of the Capital's finest chefs for 15 years, so finding someone to cater for his own wedding was going to be a difficult task.

Mount Saint Bernard Abbey have created powerful 7.4 per cent proof Tynt Meadow ale

Situated in a  Chelsea townhouse, Tom’s Kitchen is empty when we arrive - a mere half an hour after opening for service on an early summer’s evening. While each of the restaurant’s four floors had been fully booked over the course of the Chelsea Flower Show, today we have our choice of tables. We opt for a table  by the open kitchen, which exudes a reassuring hum into the cosy ground floor. The dark panelled walls are a proud canvas,...

Sitting somewhere between a pasta dish and a meaty main course lasagne has always occupied unfamiliar ground on traditional pub and restaurant menus. For punters like me the notion of a small dish and salad being served up for my main course can be off-putting when faced with the stomach-pleasing prospect of pie and mash or fish and chips. 'And' has become a powerful conjunction on the Great British menu, and where other dishes have been fortunate to attract natural...

By Jaime Fernandez, The Spanish Wine Junkie It’s officially rosé weather in the UK this week!  With temperatures predicted to reach the dizzy heights of 30 degrees in London alone. So put down that beer, give the Aperol Spritz a day off, and check out this perfect selection of rosé wines The Spanish Wine Junkie has reviewed to get you through the week. “The quality and variety in rosé wines has increased dramatically over the past few years. “Whilst the...

After Simon Rogan parted company with Fera at Claridges last year, London suffered a brief, unquenchable thirst for the much celebrated cooking served at the chef’s two Michelin starred L'Enclume in Cumbria. (Apart from the eight-seat Aulis in Soho, serving a £195 tasting menu). With L’Enclume, the chef was simply a big fish in a comparatively small pond; not to detract from the restaurant’s brilliance. With the recent opening of Roganic - on Blandford Street, just off Marylebone High Street...

Following an extensive refurbishment, The American Bar has re-opened at The Stafford London Hotel (home of The Game Bird restaurant). One of the few remaining ‘American’ cocktail bars that became a familiar site in London and Paris during the 1920s and ‘30s, the bar’s interior overhaul was overseen by Rosendale Design. An innovative new cocktail list has also been created to coincide with the re-launch – inspired by the local St James’s area. As for the food, Culinary Director Ben...

Europe's first 'brewery' has been unearthed in Uppakra in southern Sweden - predating the previous earliest such site by 400 years.