Food and Drink

A chef who served a baked Camembert in its original own-brand Asda packaging has been sacked. Customer Emma Daniels ordered a baked Camembert at the Severn Shed restaurant in Bristol which was on the menu for £13, but was shocked to discover it was still in the original packaging. On the supermarket shelves, the French cheese is sold for £1.15. Ms Daniels wrote on TripAdvisor: "When we go out to eat we realise you pay for more than just the...

Following the success of their Tart London catering company, established in 2012, Jemima Jones and Lucy Carr-Ellison have just released their debut cookbook – ‘A Love of Eating: Recipes by Tart London’. Featuring over 100 new recipes, the book features dishes spanning from breakfasts to simple one-pot dishes, through to salads and vegetable-focussed dishes and, finally, desserts. These are all complete with a prominent focus on menu planning (as outlined towards the beginning of the book) and honest, full-flavoured food. Accompanying these...

Craft spirits have witnessed an exponential rise in popularity since the turn of the Millennium. According to the American Craft Spirits Association, the United States is home to more than 1,500 craft distilleries, and according to a 2016 report; America’s craft distilling industry sold nearly 6 million cases, equating to $3 billion in sales. As the American craft whiskey market booms, one fundamental question is raised. Is craft whiskey really any better than mass produced spirit from age-old titans? While...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Men who munch lots of dairy had stronger spines and hips but women did not get the same protection