Food and Drink

With plenty of exciting restaurant openings constantly taking place across the Capital, we pick London’s best new restaurant openings taking place over the coming month.   Jidori – Covent Garden Following the success of their Dalston restaurant of the same name, Natalie Lee-Joe and Brett Redman will open Jidori in Covent Garden this month, taking over a premises on Catherine Street. Like the Dalston restaurant, the new Jidori will have a prominent focus on Japanese yakitori, extending the original menu with...

As the promise of January slowly rolls into the tedium of February, it’s likely that 92% of the people reading this will have already jettisoned their resolutions. While there is absolutely no shame in this—the statistics are in your favour after all—it is still important to keep the idea of bettering yourself in mind throughout the year. According to a YouGov poll from this time last year, three of the top five most common resolutions amongst Brits are related to...

A woman has taken on Britain's biggest sausage roll - measuring a massive 3FT and so big it needs to be served on a FENCE POST. Famous challenge eater - the aptly named Kate Ovens managed to polish off most of the giant snack in just TEN minutes. But the 23-year-old feared she had met her match with the 3750-calorie snack - because she hit 'the wall' with less than six inches of the meaty treat left. The 5ft 5ins...

Based in Bristol, Lost and Grounded Brewers began brewing in the summer of 2016, following a year of preparation. Fascinated by the precision of German brewing and the idiosyncratic nature of Belgain beers, Lost and Grounded have a 25HL brewhouse from Krones, located in Freising, Germany – home of Weihenstephan. Here, the brewhouse includes a traditional lactic acid propagation plant, giving brewers the ability to naturally produce “sour” wort with a special strain of lactic acid bacteria used to naturally...

As the last day of Veganuary, the month-long plant-based diet challenge, comes into view The Vegan Society is pleased to announce the launch of a tool that can help participants continue their transition. The charity has released a handy nutrition app designed to help vegans hit their nutritional targets every day by providing an easy-to-use checklist and personalised tips. VNutrition is aimed at new vegans, those trying out veganism or those who want to assess the quality of a well-established...

Mrs Le’s Banh Mi and Grill has opened in Battersea bringing an authentic Vietnamese restaurant experience to south London. Derived from the Le family’s matriarch Mrs Le's has built a dynasty of restaurants across the capital and continues to expand. The key to her success has been to stick to what she knows best, and despite overseeing a growing empire Mrs My Le continues to make early morning trips to Billingsgate market after peeling garlic by hand into the early hours. Her...

One of just three restaurants with three Michelin stars in London, Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester is currently offering a menu with prominent focus on black truffle (Tuber melanosporum) – one of the globe’s most prized natural ingredients, native to Southern Europe. Established in 2007, Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester is the flagship UK restaurant from one of the world’s most decorated chefs, with 26 restaurants operating worldwide. Best known for offering high-end, contemporary French cuisine, the kitchen of Alain...

The image of veganism is undergoing the most radical change in its history, with people now closely associating it with health, fitness and wellbeing. It’s no longer an extreme lifestyle, it’s easy and accessible - you can walk into any supermarket and pick up a vegan alternative to anything you can think of. It was disheartening to hear this morning that a small number of vegans have decided to make death threats to a farmer. It’s important to note that...

Britain could be hit by a hummus crisis due to a global chickpea shortage. Poor crop yields in some areas over the past year has driven down supply, but demand for the primary hummus ingredient remains high. The price of supermarket hummus has leapt by 29 per cent since January 2017, according to analysis by the trade magazine The Grocer. Tasneem Backhouse, managing director of chickpea supplier EHL Ingredients, said: "Demand is strong from every market and currently there isn’t enough...