Food and Drink
Restaurant Review: Abd el Wahab, London
West London has no shortage of Lebanese restaurants, but few are quite like Abd el Wahab. First opened in Beirut at the end of the 1990s, the Abd el Wahab restaurant group (named after the address of its original location - ‘Abd el Wahab El Inglizi’) now oversees popular restaurants across the Middle East, including Bahrain, Qatar, Cairo, Dubai and Abu Dhabi. The first restaurant outside the Arab region has recently opened, taking over a premises on Pont Street in...
London’s first gluten, dairy & sugar free Italian restaurant opens next month
Best known for Macellaio RC – the Italian butchery with tables – Roberto Costa has teamed up with chef Simona Ranieri to bring a brand new restaurant concept to London. Taking over a bright, airy space in Fulham, Ardiciocca (meaning artichoke in Genoese-Italian) will launch on Friday 4th May, inspired by the world famous Mediterranean diet: marking London’s first gluten, dairy and sugar free restaurant opening. While Macellaio RC has a prominent focus on Italian Fassona beef, there will be...
Soaring popularity of 1970’s favourite fondue could be due to BREXIT, Oxford academic claims
A fondue revival which has seen sales of the 1970’s dinner party favourite soar could be down to BREXIT, an Oxford professor claims. Sales of fondue kits have tripled in two years at John Lewis stores, and an academic believes it could be down to Remainers longing to bond with the rest of Europe. The Swiss-style sets usually comprise of a long fork and a saucepan for melting cheese. Professor Charles Spence, head of Oxford University's Crossmodal Research Laboratory, said...
Beer of the Week: Sharp’s Brewery Offshore Pilsner
Established in 1994, Sharp’s Brewery has become the largest brewer of cask beer in the South West - based in Rock, Cornwall. Also owner of the UK’s number one cask beer brand, Doom Bar, the brewery is also a proud sponsor of the Blue Flag initiative; with five pence from every limited release sold donated to the charity, to help protect beaches in Cornwall for the enjoyment of all. True to the award-winning brewery’s Cornish roots, Sharp’s has launched Offshore...
30 year old Walkers crisp packet washed up on British beach shows danger facing our oceans
The largely intact bag of cheese and onion flavoured crisps is believed to date back to the 1980s - highlighting further the environmental impact of plastic in our oceans.
Eating cheese more than three times a week protects middle aged men against brittle bone disease
Men who munch lots of dairy had stronger spines and hips but women did not get the same protection
Canned food warning: Tinned food such as tuna can have 100 times more zinc than is safe
Mineral leaches into food and then lodges in people's digestive system altering the body's ability to absorb nutrients
Review: Poon’s has re-launched with a pop-up restaurant in Clerkenwell
A three-sided square off Central Street in Clerkenwell is, perhaps, an odd choice of location for a new restaurant. Between Old Street and Angel tube stations, close to Palatino (a corporate morgue that serves enjoyable Roman-inspired food), Poon’s has popped-up at The Alchemist, a 250 square-foot space neighboured by William Hill, Fish Central and a block of flats. Here, Amy Poon is re-launching her family’s famous Chinese restaurants, dragging them kicking and screaming into the 21st Century. Bill Poon first...
These cities have the world’s most diverse food scenes
A new study from Bott and Co suggests New York is the world’s best foodie city. Having created a useful tool to showcase the world’s 50 best food scenes, Bott and Co’s research covers cities with a population of over 1 million and ranks them based on different national cuisines celebrated in restaurants throughout the city. The interactive map also highlights the top rated restaurants for each national cuisine in each area. With 94 national cuisines on offer, New York...