Food and Drink

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Opened as the sibling of Westminster’s Cinnamon Club, situated within a Grade II listed Library, Cinnamon Kitchen landed in East London’s Devonshire Square in 2008, just metres from Liverpool Street Station. While Brick Lane is generally regarded as the area’s prime Indian restaurant destination, Cinnamon Kitchen was surprisingly busy during our early dinner visit, leading up to the recent grand reopening of Cinnamon Club, having undergone a £1 million refurbishment, as well as the...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food It’s that time of year once again when Great Britain and Ireland’s foodie elite will flock to sample what’s on offer at the latest wave of restaurants to have been praised by the newly published Michelin Guide 2016, with the results having been published on Twitter, one day early. In total, this year’s comprehensive restaurant guide features 15 new One Star restaurants, two to be awarded Two Stars, and no new Three Stars, meanwhile...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Strength: 6% ABV Brewed: Hackney, London The Five Points Brewing Company is the latest of London’s microbreweries to have caught our attention. Based in the heart of East London’s Hackney, the brewery first started to become established in 2013, following their Five Points Pale Ale, and now there are four beers within the brewery’s core range – including Five Points Pale, Railway Porter, Five Points IPA, and Hook Island Red. The latter of which is...

A choux pastry recipe from Maitre Choux founder Joakim Prat.

Photo: © Yuki Sugiura By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food “This book, ‘My Kind Of Food’, is a document of my life in food, and of my travels and my loves,” begins the introduction to John Torode’s brand new cookbook. “Why did I decide to write it? Because cooking is what I do and what I have always done. I do it professionally and it is my way of life, but cooking is also the way I relax. It is...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Just across the floor from the dining area of London’s Hutong, specialising in delicious Sichuanese cooking, the restaurant’s bar offers a range of exciting cocktails that are available to enjoy as you gaze across London’s constantly growing skyline, from the 33rd floor of The Shard. One of the highlights of said Cocktail menu is the ‘Bright and Stormy’, which features Zacapa Rum and Maraschino, and we have the recipe to share for this week’s...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Situated towards the less exciting end of the King’s Road, Masala Grill first opened in May, taking over the spot of the now relocated Chutney Mary (now in St. James). Set up by the MW Eat Group, which also works with Michelin-starred Amaya, Veeraswamy, Masala Zone, and the aforementioned Chutney Mary, Masala Grill bridges the gap between the group’s formal and casual outposts. And although the restaurant’s name does sound reminiscent of a local...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Way back in 1989, Robert Zemeckis’ classic cult Sci-Fi blockbuster – 'Back To The Future 2' – predicted that 2015 would behold all sorts of outrageous, futuristic contraptions most probably designed by an outrageous (evidently very prolific) scientist with dreams that even the most brainy of scholars would struggle to conceive. Many of those predictions of 2015 did, in fact, come true. Self-lacing Trainers and actual Hover Boards have been invented (although just for...

A simple recipe for one of the iconic restaurant's most popular desserts.