Food and Drink

With plenty of exciting restaurant openings constantly taking place across the Capital, we pick the best new restaurants arriving in London over the coming month. MEATliquor - Queensway Since starting life as a food truck, MEATliquor has become one of London’s, if not the UK’s, best-loved comfort food institutions. The restaurant’s first permanent site opened behind Oxford Street in 2011, and 10 more venues have since opened across London, Brighton, Bristol and Leeds. This month, the twelfth site is set to open...

A neighbourhood restaurant with food inspired by its heritage at the heart of London’s ‘Little Scandinavia’ – The Harcourt first opened last summer. Established in 1826 as The Harcourt Arms, the Grade II listed building has been an iconic building amongst London’s Scandinavian expat community for decades. What’s more, with Finnish Head Chef Kimmo Makkonen now at the helm, the restaurant has become renowned as one of the only venues in London to serve reindeer, amongst a number of other...

By Dominika Piasecka The UK’s largest producer of healthy meat alternatives, Quorn, has registered its entire Vegan Range with the Vegan Trademark, calling the logo the “cherry on top” of a very successful launch. Some of the products have been available throughout the UK since October 2016 but the new registration gives extra credibility and assurance to consumers avoiding animal ingredients. George Gill, Chief Executive at The Vegan Society, said: “We are delighted to welcome Quorn to join over 800...

After what feels like years of waiting, I’ve found a number of genuinely brilliant restaurants close to my home. So when I’m (often) asked for restaurant recommendations, I constantly find myself waxing lyrical about these local treasures. With that comes a price, nonetheless: the only thing worse than an accusation of being biased is the whinging replies of: “Greenwich, oh that’s much too far.” “Zone 2? No way, I’ll need to bring my passport!” Or even worse, “Sorry, darling. We...

The perfect London pub was described in a 1946 piece by George Orwell for the Evening Standard. Orwell named one pub, The Moon Under the Water, as the quintessential boozer. There was one catch, it didn’t exist. Since pubs in the capital continue to close at an alarming rate, it is unlikely that any pub come close to Orwell’s ideal today. This is especially the case in The City, where Lloyds, one of the most historic financial institutions in the...

With the upcoming General Election in the UK, the French Presidential Election, constant threats of nuclear war and terrorism; the hummus shortage that’s been sending the nation into a frenzy does seem somewhat trivial. News of a UK ‘hummus crisis’, nonetheless, still managed to find its way onto the front pages of yesterday’s newspapers. Reports have suggested that a number of UK supermarkets such as Sainsbury’s, Marks & Spencer and Tesco have suffered a “crisis”, in which stocks of hummus...

Strength: 5.8% Brewed: Kentish Town, London Currently celebrating their 10th anniversary, Camden Town Brewery was founded in the basement of The Horseshoe pub in Hampstead by Jasper Cuppaidge. The current brewery is located in Kentish Town, though a brand new facility will open this summer, a little further north-east in Enfield. Quite an achievement, the new Enfield brewery is set to be the largest brewery to be built in London in over 30 years. With a core range of seven...

The World’s greatest food photo was unwrapped at a packed awards reception at the Mall Galleries in London last night. Bangladesh-based Shoeb Faruquee was declared overall winner of Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2017 and was presented with a cheque for £5,000 by Andy Macdonald, who heads up Pink Lady in the UK, headline sponsor of the awards. Shoeb had won the Food for Celebration category, which is sponsored by Champagne Taittinger earlier in the evening, and then went on to...

Switch on E4 on any given Monday night and ten minutes of Made in Chelsea will give you a rough idea of the veritable number of establishments this part of South West London has to offer. Glamorous clubs, private members bars and palace-like cafes serving high teas from shiny trinkets are accommodation enough to host an hour’s worth of bitching and whining. But far from being an isolated neighbourhood for the privileged few Chelsea is now awash with quirky cafes,...