Food and Drink

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.

Italian lager brand Peroni Nastro Azzurro is going toe to toe with the burgeoning spritz market following the launch of a new aperitivo beverage. With lager brands coming under considerable strain of late as the craft beer market gobbles up market share and drinkers feast on the delights of a blooming spirit and wine market, the renowned Italian brewer has decided to shift its gaze towards Aperol and and Campari in a bid to take back some control. The new aperitivo, dubbed Peroni...

Britain has become a nation of 'culinary freestylers' who only refer to the recipe twice a month, it has emerged. Rather than playing it safe with traditional British dishes, four in five Brits are experimenting with global cuisine, adding their own twist to international delicacies, a study of 2,000 adults found. Curry dishes, stir fry and spaghetti Bolognese were all considered the easy playgrounds for cooks looking to express themselves in the kitchen with unusual ingredients and approaches. One in...

Scottish scientists from the same institute that created "Dolly the Sheep" have created genetically modified pigs that are resistant to one of the world's deadliest animal diseases.