Food and Drink
A taste of paradise
The creamy blend of Bounty Drink has been relaunched, with a new enhanced recipe. With the unmistakable taste of Bounty chocolate, why not indulge in a taste of paradise. Now available in a larger easy grab bottle with new graphics, the exotic recipe has been fused with 6% real coconut, creating a refreshing yet creamy chocolatey drink.
Introducing Waterloo Brasserie
Waterloo Brasserie (119 Waterloo Road, SE1 8UL) launches on Monday 3 December and is the second restaurant from the team behind the Cheyne Walk Brasserie in Chelsea. Waterloo Brasserie will offer an all day dining experience serving classic brasserie-style dishes from breakfast through to dinner.
PIADA - Italian slow food, fast and fresh
PIADA, located at 12-14 St John Street, London, opened in Smithfield Market in September 2006, with a second restaurant just opened in Soho’s Frith Street. Piade - or piadine as they are also known – are a unique Italian flatbread hailing from the Emilia-Romagna region of northeast Italy and considered by many to be one of the country’s most delicious forms of street food.
Festive tips from Antony Worrall Thompson
Even celebrity chefs have short cuts to ease the pressure of catering for family and friends during the festive season. Here, celebrity chef Antony Worrall Thompson shares five festive tips and foolproof fast snack recipes that take just five minutes to prepare – perfect when guests pop by unexpectedly.
Festive fizz
Christmas is a time for celebration so why not pop the cork on a bottle of festive fizz with one of these fantastic champagnes.
Game to eat this Christmas
If you’re tired of the same old Christmas lunch and fancy tantalising your taste buds with something different give game a go this Christmas. Whether you choose pheasant, venison or partridge the wonderful flavour of game will make for a very different but successful Christmas lunch - and there’s the added bonus that you are making a healthy choice.
Marlborough Tavern wins national food award
The Marlborough Tavern in Bath has been named Newcomer of the Year at the prestigious national Pub Food Awards 2007. At a lavish awards ceremony on Wednesday 7th November in London’s Hurlingham Club, The Marlborough Tavern fought off fierce competition from hundreds of other UK entries plus three other shortlisted finalists on the night to pick up the accolade.
Start your day with an authentic Spanish breakfast
Say adios to queues for a bland coffee chain breakfasts and hola to a fresh, friendly and speedy Spanish breakfast at Camino, King’s Cross. Breakfasts in Spain are unfussy yet delicious – a bikini (honey roasted ham and cheese toastie) and a café con leche (espresso with hot milk).
Champagne Gosset launches prestige cuvée
Champagne Gosset - the oldest wine house in Champagne, Aÿ, 1584 - has launched its latest prestige cuvée - Gosset Celebris Extra Brut Vintage 1998 – one of its finest vintages in recent years.
James Martin heads to Birmingham Bites
Birmingham Bites, the campaign which celebrates the city’s diverse food and drink offering, invites you to meet celebrity chef James Martin. James, star of Saturday Kitchen, will be doing a demo on the Birmingham Bites stand (T50) at the BBC Good Food Show on Wednesday 28th November.
An evening with Michael Caines at Fifteen Cornwall
For one night only, the two Michelin-starred chef Michael Caines will be cooking up a storm in the Fifteen Cornwall kitchen for a special evening that will bring together French and Italian inspired dishes, into a single menu with a distinctive Cornish twist.
Acclaimed Shoreditch Vietnamese wins a 'Terry'
Acclaimed Shoreditch Vietnamese restaurant, Viet Grill, has won 'best value' category of the Independent on Sunday restaurant critic Terry Duracks' annual restaurant awards, 'The Terrys'.
Pick up a pudding and run for Cancer Research UK
Pudding pandemonium is about to break out in Covent Garden with the Cancer Research UK Great Christmas Pudding Race. Teams in fancy dress are polishing up their pudding-balancing skills to negotiate an Its-A-Knockout-style course of inflatables while balancing a Christmas pud on a tray and being pelted with flour, foam and water.
Welsh food takes to the small screen this Christmas
Shoppers looking to stock up for Christmas will be in for a treat as a host of Welsh food takes to the small screen next week (November 19) in a special show on UK TV shopping channel QVC, marking the first anniversary of its True Taste of Wales Show.
The Westerly wins Rémy Martin’s ‘Restaurant Excellence Award’
Jon amd Cynthia Coomb, proprietors of The Westerly in Reigate, have announced that the restaurant has been selected as the winner of the Rémy Martin ‘Restaurant Excellence Award 2008’ in conjunction with Harden’s UK Restaurant Guide. Over 8,000 people contributed to Harden’s UK Restaurant Guide 2008 submitting more than 100,000 reviews. From these a shortlist of restaurants was drawn up for the Rémy Martin Excellence Award.