Food and Drink
The sweet life
Antony Worrall Thompson is one of the UK’s best loved chefs. Appearing regularly on popular TV shows such as ITV’s Daily Cooks Challenge, BBC2’s Food and Drink and Ready, Steady, Cook. AWT as he is fondly known also has several leading restaurants including the celebrated neighbourhood restaurants Notting Grill and Kew Grill, as well as being a winner of the Meilleur Ouvrier de Grande Bretagne (MOGB) - the chef's Oscar.
Waitrose launch new Delicatezze range
Briton’s mealtimes are becoming increasingly influenced by the informal dining of the Mediterranean. This tradition of relaxed meals made up of dishes to share has inspired the launch of Waitrose Delicatezze.
Loch Fyne – The world’s their oyster
Loch Fyne Oysters have won the Retail Award for Fish and Seafood at the Food & Drink Excellence Awards 2008, widely acknowledged as the “Oscars” of the industry. The Excellence Awards judge not only the quality of food and drink products but also companies’ environmental and sustainability policies. Loch Fyne Oysters’ ethos is based on sustainable enterprise and rigorous maintenance of the highest levels of care enabling them to be recognised as a leader in their field.
Divine takes centre stage
Divine, the leading Fairtrade chocolate, have announced that you will now be able to have a Divine experience as well as watching a great show at all 23 of the Ambassador Theatre Group venues across the UK. All four of Divine’s 45g bars – Milk Chocolate, Dark 70% Chocolate, Orange Milk Chocolate and White Chocolate – are now available as a delicious theatre-going treat from the Savoy and Piccadilly Theatres in London to the Theatre Royal up in Glasgow.
Saki launches London’s first Shojin Kaiseki tasting menu
Saki Bar and Food Emporium, the contemporary and authentic Japanese restaurant in Smithfield will launch London’s first Shojin Kaiseki menu on 19th May. Shojin Kaiseki is an integral part of Japanese cuisine that features strictly vegetarian Ingredients in its many refined dishes, all of which are steeped in tradition and history, dating back to the introduction of Buddhism in Japan back in the 6th Century.
Chef opens England’s highest restaurant
A restaurant will open for business on top of one of England’s highest mountains on Wednesday 14th May. Local celebrity chef Peter Sidwell will be serving three course lunches on top of Skiddaw in the Lake District on Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th of May as part of the Cumberland Ale Keswick Mountain Festival.
Rainforest Cafe supports National Allergy Week
According to Allergy UK, 1 in 3 of the UK population are affected by allergies at some point in their lives and 40% of children currently suffer from an allergy. Their 2007 survey ‘Stolen Lives’ highlights how people that suffer from food allergies consider their lives “stressful and nobody seems to understand”.
Figures add up at priceyourmeal.com
The figures are adding up at priceyourmeal.com, the revolutionary food auction website, which has hit its £250,000 turnover target two years after launching in Glasgow in Spring 2006.
Online shopping is even sweeter
Every celebration calls for something special, but where do you start? From inspirational bakeware to edible sparkle dusts, squires-shop.com – Squires Kitchen’s new website – has it all. Squires-shop.com stocks everything you need to prepare and present your food, including those hard-to-find products such as garnish tools, edible diamonds, gold and silver leaf and chocolate roses.
Spring lamb – The very best of British
There’s something so special about the taste of spring lamb – with its delicate, pale and tender meat with a fine grain and white crumbly fat to keep it succulent. It is meltingly tender to eat, and represents the very best of British seasonal fare.
Food to touch your heart in Wembley
Alisan Restaurant, whose unique Golden Dumpling dim sum was recently feted by Restaurant Magazine’s ‘Best Dishes’ Awards, has introduced a new dim sum menu. Lunchtime diners at much-acclaimed modern Cantonese restaurant opposite Wembley Stadium, have a selection of more than 140 dim sum dishes from which to choose.
Tesco event named Scotland's top food festival
Tesco Enjoy the Taste of Scotland Food Festival has been crowned Scotland’s largest food and drink festival after figures showed more than 21,000 people attended the event last weekend at George Square, Glasgow.
Celebrities celebrate brewery relaunch
Last week saw the re-launch of WEST brewery, bar and restaurant at Glasgow Green. German brewery owner Petra Wetzel and Curry King Charan Gill, have rescued the brewery from the brink of administration.
Ministry of Sound launches Vodka
After 18 months of planning and careful refining with the best ingredients, the wait is finally over as Ministry of Sound Vodka goes into stores this week. The stylish bottles with distinctive yellow and black chevrons have been designed to be consumed when partying with others, and will be available to buy from 240 Sainsbury’s stores throughout the UK.
Its World Cocktail Day at the Alcron
This year will mark the 10th anniversary of World Cocktail Day, a yearly celebration held every May 13th, at the Alcron Hotel’s Be Bop Bar and at Bugsy’s Bar in Prague. This international event was launched in 1999 through the initiative of the Radisson SAS Alcron’s Be Bop Bar and its Bar Manager, Alexander Miksovic, to commemorate the date the term “Cocktail” was first coined in 1806.