By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food For as long as there’s been fine dining restaurants, creativity in the kitchen has always been encouraged. Sure, sometimes the classics are very difficult to improve upon, yet without such focus it’s unlikely that chefs such as Heston Blumenthal, whose cooking is often reminiscent of a stereotypical mad scientist, or Pierre Gargnall – the artist behind London’s über trendy Sketch – would have risen to such prominence. However, as far as extreme creativity is...

By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Set to launch on July 31st, Storeys is an exciting new London pop-up. We’ve already heard of car parks making the ideal setting for a great food and drink experience with incredible views, yet none are placed within locations as iconic as the BBC Car Park at their old White City Television Centre. Set up by event company Afternoon Delight LDN, Storeys will feature some of the UK’s most popular street food vendors such...

Chef Jesse Dunford Wood's take on the classic dessert

Chairman Kato is an artist and musician, but until just last year he worked as an A&E doctor. Here we find out how he made such a leap. Why did you originally become a doctor, if your real passion was art? I was a bit of an 'all rounder' at school and had interests in lots of things. Growing up I didn't really have any exposure to positive career examples of people in the arts either. So I ended up...

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent Small and medium-sized enterprises in London are set to eclipse the rest of the country with revenues forecasted to increase by over £160,000 by 2025 compared to the £82,000 increase expected around the country as a whole. Despite the government’s Summer Budget pledge to put the power into the Northern Powerhouse, the gap between London’s small businesses and those in the North looks set to more than double in the next ten years according to new...

By Nathan Lee, TLE Correspondent  A third of British holiday makers who have had their hotel room robbed were iu the room when the theft took place, new research has shown. The study showed one in ten of the 2,000 holidaymakers polled had experienced theft from their hotel rooms – and a third of victims were present when it happened. Being asleep, in the bathroom or relaxing on the balcony were all cited as reasons that Brits end up having...

By Michael McNulty For many Taiwanese director Yee Chih-Yen’s latest film since Blue Gate Crossing (2002) may go unnoticed, when it shouldn’t. A charming film with socio-economic undertones Salute! Sun Yat-Sen finds itself firmly grounded as a coming of age dramedy. When Lefty, a young man brimming with charm and a smile capable of melting ice caps, finds himself struggling to pay high school tuition fees, he concocts a plan to steal, with the help of his friends, and sell...

By Pieter Cranenbroek In 1975 Britain overwhelmingly voted in favour of staying in the European Economic Community in a referendum organised by Harold Wilson’s Labour government. Forty years on, the British people will soon face the choice of renewing their vows or filing for divorce. In many ways it looks like a rerun of those past events: there’s a divided governing party, a prominent right-wing populist campaigning against Europe and a left that looks increasingly likely to campaign on both ends....

By Jack Peat, TLE Editor  Last summer I started writing a book exploring the understated role of wood in bringing to life regional qualities that lay at the heart of the most lauded drinks in the World. A trip to North Yorkshire, a trip to Bordeaux, a trip to Porto, a trip to Switzerland and a trip to the Inner Hebrides of Scotland later and I have 35,000 words of gold on a hard-drive doing not very much. But the...