Food and Drink

A ceiling fixer has made £400 from selling £10 KFC bargain buckets online - for £100 each. He posted an ad on Facebook selling ‘rare’ ten-piece bargain buckets for £100 from the chicken takeaway chain, which had to close more than half of its stores nationwide due to a problem with their supplier. The man managed to flog each chicken portion for a whopping £10 each - a 1000 per cent mark-up. The 30-year-old said he drove from his home...

Modern Indian food is in vogue. While Mayfair has reached saturation point, with a ratio of almost one Indian fine dining restaurant per local resident, surrounding areas such as Soho and Marylebone are thriving with more casual restaurants celebrating Indian and South Asian cooking (Kricket, Hoppers, Tamarind Kitchen). Bridging the gap between the two, a second branch of Hankies opened within the Montcalm Hotel near Marble Arch earlier this year, taking over Nirvana Kitchen’s former site. While Hankies’ original London...

Through the opulent lobby and down a spiral staircase - behind a seedy bar with low lighting and a floor-to-ceiling palette of red – The Curry Room is hidden beneath the The Rubens at The Palace hotel. Following a multi-million-pound refurbishment, the hotel now boasts upgraded rooms and guest areas, plus a complete dining overhaul. Alongside the aforementioned Cavalry Bar, The English Grill offers fine dining, while The Curry Room is the hotel’s latest restaurant opening, launched earlier this year....

I should come clean. Although I’m a particular fan of the cuisine - no stranger to jerk chicken and plantain chips are one of my favourite snacks - I am by no means a connoisseur of Caribbean food. This can, perhaps, be attributed to  spending the past 16 years  living on what’s arguably the wrong side of London in terms of  access to any exceptional Caribbean food hotspots.   And so, as we make the short walk from Finsbury Park...

Inspired by the new talent of Tokyo’s vibrant food scene, Tokyo-based photographer Andrea Fazzari will release Tokyo New Wave next month. This luxe collection is filled with portraits, recipes and profiles on 31 chefs shaping the future of eating out in Tokyo. Here, the predominant focus is a generation of young chefs redefining what it means to be a chef in Tokyo: well-travelled, embracing social media open to the world and its influences, but still distinctly Japanese in style, tradition...

The London Viva! Vegan Festival comes to Shoreditch in March, with a stellar line up of talks, cookery demonstrations, delicious vegan food on offer. With over 70 stalls spread across Shoreditch’s spectacular town hall, this festival promises to be an exciting family day out. Organised by Bristol-based vegan charity, Viva!, this is the second annual event in London and it is expected to attract over 3,000 attendees. Entry to the event is £5 and throughout the day free advice and...

A classic Italian cocktail, the Negroni typically features Campari, gin and red vermouth. Since the drinks invention in 1919, however, a great number of reinterpretations have been created. Caravan Coffee Roasters, for instance, have created a ‘Single Origin Negroni’, featuring the addition of a fruit-driven coffee element. Here, London dry style gin is teamed with Campari and a homemade single origin Columbian coffee syrup to add a new dimension to the drink. Bitter orange and lemon notes imparted from the...

A British interpretation of a traditional German Gose from Yorkshire's finest craft brewers.

“We are the puppets of the lemmings,” Markus Lemke tells me, straight-faced. I nod and sip my cup of coffee. I’ve been with Markus and his sister Melinda for an hour and am beginning to settle into their alternative universe. Along with business partner Rolf Nylinder they are the people behind a rather eccentric coffee company. “This is what we call kokkaffe,” explains Markus, lighting a fire in a woodland clearing, “It’s very popular up here in the north but...