Food and Drink

Image courtesy of Brooklyn Brewery. By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Strength: 5.6% Brewed: Williamsburg, Brooklyn, USA Set up in New York during the late 1980s, Brooklyn Brewery was inspired by Steve Hindy’s stint as a Middle East-based journalist, having befriended a number of Saudi Arabian diplomats that would ply Hindy with their flavoursome beer brewed at home, given the strict Islamic laws against alcoholic beverages. Upon returning to America, Hindy began to brew his own beer at home and...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food With National Amaretto Day fast approaching, taking place next week (Tuesday April 19th), this week’s featured recipe works in accordance with the day of commemoration. With Disaronno having become the world’s most globally famous brand of amaretto, it seems fitting to enjoy the evening with an original Disaronno Sour: a remarkably simple recipe that uses three easily obtainable ingredients, combined to create an extremely pleasant drink. Add the sugar syrup, stir and garnish with...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Located within a Hoxton backstreet away from the main drag, acclaimed bartenders Ryan Chetiyawardana and Iain Griffiths opened The White Lyan a couple of years ago, reinstalling life into an old East London pub. At present, the drinking scene in London is remarkable, especially in the east, yet as is the case with most anything, although already spoilt for choice, the city’s most discerning drinkers are constantly searching for new dens to frequent, bars that...

Food products such as Dolmio pasta sauces and Uncle Ben's Rice should only be consumed once a week due to high salt, sugar or fat content. Mars Food, the firm behind the supermarket staples, said it will distinguish between "everyday" and "occasional" items on packs and on its website. The announcement comes following Chancellor George Osborne's sugar tax, which aims to tackle childhood obesity by putting a levy on products that are high in sugar. Mars Food has started a Health and...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Strength: 6.5% Brewed: Manchester, England Set up at the end of 2014, Cloudwater Brew Co. is a Manchester-based brewery that operates from an ex warehouse space, just a stone’s throw from the city centre. Initially inspired by a Copenhagen Beer Celebration, the brewery was set up with a respect for the changing of seasons at its very heart, specialising in producing a fine range of constantly changing seasonal beers. In celebration of the spring...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Having worked within the kitchens of some of Europe’s most prestigious restaurants – notably Can Fabes near Barcelona and L’Atelier Joël Robuchon here in London – multi award winning pastry chef Joakim Prat opened his first solo venture last year. Located close to Kensington’s French Lycée, just seconds from South Kensington underground station, Maître Choux specialises in choux pastry, unsurprisingly, crafting the most intricately beautiful and tantalisingly delicious éclairs available outside a Three Michelin-starred...

A light and refreshing Vietnamese mango salad recipe with plump tiger prawns.

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Joining three previous openings across the city, the popular Barrio group opened their fourth venue earlier this year, taking over a space in Brixton. In addition, the group have also developed a new drinks menu which has been initially introduced at the new Brixton space, specially curated by the ‘Salts of the Earth’ team and heavily inspired by the local area. From the new menu, this week’s cocktail recipe is Barrio Brixton’s ‘Voodoo Mama’,...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food It’s no secret that we Brits are extremely proud of our tried and tested queuing system. While there’s no set rule or law that requires us to spend life forming an orderly queue, we’re somehow born with an innate desire to follow societal norms, with queuing being amongst the most popular, taking place multiple times on a daily basis. In many ways, the notion of queuing is magnificent: supermarket trips, for instance, are already...