Food and Drink

Cadbury have been accused of short changing customers and wasting packaging after selling a variety box of treats – with just EIGHT biscuits inside. Pictures and video posted on social media show one disgruntled customer opening the ‘Cadbury Biscuit Assortment’ after receiving it as a gift. The customer’s wife, who works as a teacher, was given the box by one of her pupils before Christmas. The husband, from Birmingham, who does not want to be named for fear of embarrassing...

Originally founded in Cornwall by Walter Hicks in 1851, St Austell Brewery is still 100 per-cent family owned and renowned for brewing some of the South-West’s most popular beers. In addition to brewing their own beers from a brewery overlooking the bay of St Austell, their Small Batch Brewery builds on the success of a previous micro-brewery, allowing St Austell’s team of brewers to constantly experiment with new flavours and styles. Black Square Russian Imperial Stout, for instance, is a collaborative effort between...

The chef at the centre of a storm over claims she spiked a vegan's food has QUIT her job at the restaurant after receiving death threats. Laura Goodman ranted on Facebook about how she spent hours preparing a special menu for a party of vegan and vegetarian guests at her Italian restaurant. But she lost her rag when one of them ordered a Margherita pizza topped with mozzarella on Saturday night (30/12), which is not vegan-friendly. Italian-born Goodman, 47, then...

Unlike so many fusty, windowless hotel dining rooms we’ve become so accustomed to, Radisson Blu Edwardian’s ‘Kitchen’ restaurants (other than the Michelin feted fine dining temples) are a rare breed that you might actually fancy visiting for dinner, even if you’re not conveniently staying upstairs. Part of the group's Covent Garden hotel, Monmouth Kitchen opened last year, following the success of May Fair Kitchen (sic), followed by Leicester Square Kitchen earlier this year. With its own separate entrance on Monmouth...

Police were called in yesterday (Tue) after a chef received death threats for boasting on Facebook about "spiking" a vegan diner's food - with CHEESE. Italian-born Laura Goodman told how she took her revenge after a group booked a table at her Carlini restaurant on Saturday night (30/12). Goodman claims she "spent hours" preparing a special menu for the party, but lost her rag when one of them ordered a Margarita pizza topped with mozzarella, which is not vegan-friendly. In...

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The cost of a pint in London is officially double the global average, new research has revealed. The study compared the price of a pint in 177 of the world’s most populated cities and found London ranks in the top 25 most expensive cities to buy a pint (22nd), costing around £4.76 on average. The cost of a pint in London is almost double the global average, which is around £2.61 a pint, although the capital is cheaper than Sydney, Tokyo...

If 2016 was the year of single-item, no reservation restaurants; 2017 has been the year of the super hotel. First it was The Ned, Soho House’s landed cruise ship, taking over an old bank building in the city of London – featuring 252 bedrooms, nine restaurants and a rooftop bar, all of which have been filling our Instagram feeds since summer. Soon after, Robert Deniro and Nobu Matsuhisa brought one of their Nobu hotels to Shoreditch. Then The Mandrake Hotel opened...

It’s a damp Friday afternoon in London and I’m lounging in the humidor room of a cigar shop with Amir Gehl, founder of Difference Coffee Co. Apart from the fact we’re smoking inside, what’s perhaps most surprising is the fact that (at four o’clock) all eight seats are filled with men who leisurely smoke fat cigars and drink wine, or coffee, as if it’s far later in the evening. “I haven’t always drunk coffee”, Amir explains, reclining in his plush...