The Rex Whistler Restaurant at Tate Britain is offering a festive set Christmas menu every lunchtime until Tuesday 23rd December. The menu at this iconic London location has a distinct Modern British flavour and special attention is paid to sourcing regional and seasonal ingredients, evident in dishes such as Roast parsnip soup with honey crème fraîche, Three bird roast with game chips & bread sauce, Root vegetable & sweet potato casserole and Cranberry & walnut tart with cranberry sorbet. The special set menu is £33.10 for three courses including illy coffee or Jing leaf tea.
Rasa Sayang Opens Its Doors To Offer Authentic Malaysian & Singaporean Cuisine
Rasa Sayang, a restaurant in London serving authentic Malaysian and Singaporean cuisine, was officially declared open on 14 December, by the Malaysian Transport Minister, Dato Seri Ong Tee Keat, who is also the President of the Malaysian Chinese Association. Over 250 people turned out for the opening ceremony which was also attended by the Malaysian High Commissioner Datuk Abdul Aziz Mohammed.
Racing driver makes winning beer
A box of Laverstoke Farm Ale lands with a merry festive clink on the desk, courtesy of Jody Scheckter former 1979 Formula One world champion racing driver who owns and runs this totally organic farm in Hampshire. His traditional bottle conditioned ale is the latest ‘farm produce” and has been produced by master brewer Derek Lowe utilising the traditional hops and barley grown on the farm.
Home made cranberry sauce
As we carve our traditional roast turkey this Christmas Day, how many of us will be treating our families to proper cranberry sauce as an accompaniment? By all means keep a jar of ready-made sauce in the cupboard as a standby, but when there are lovely fresh cranberries so readily available, and they taste so much more delicious, surely it makes sense to make your own? And when you are using fresh cranberries, be sure to maximise their delicious flavour: By using Fruisana Fruit Sugar in your recipes you will find that the flavours are enhanced.
25% off the finest malt whiskies and champagne at Albannach
The Quality Hour gives true connoisseurs of ‘the water of life’ a fantastic opportunity to enjoy some particularly rare whiskies in the most elegant of surroundings. Representing remarkable value, the honey, cinnamon and banana aromas, and honeyed, vanilla, lemon and toffee palate of The Balvenie 1966 can beexperienced for £52.50 a dram, a saving of £17.50. The Quality Hour also offers the chance for lovers of the finer things in life to sample a measure of thedistinguished Isle of Jura 36 year old for £67.50, normally £90.
Bistro One Ninety
Bistro One Ninety at 190 Queen’s Gate, Kensington, received great critical acclaim when it was opened by Anthony Worrall Thompson in the early 90’s. Under its new ownership, Bistro One Ninety is seeking to return to its heyday with the appointment of a talented new Head Chef, Taher Djeebet.
Rooburoo restaurant
The delicious paradox of a ‘Hindoostani Coffee House’ by the presciently named Dean Mohomed would have intrigued liberal thinkers and epicurean romantics of 1809 – the year that England’s first Indian restaurant appeared. Although Dean was declared bankrupt a few years later his legend lives on, namely as a historical snippet on the menu at Indian restaurant Rooburoo where this fusion of English and Indian is evident some 200 years later.
Give your coffee-lover their dream machine
Have you noticed the sudden changes in small appliances lately? DIY seamstresses can purchase a machine that draws and cuts out every pattern or shape they can think of. And who needs to learn calligraphy beautiful fonts can be printed out in two seconds. So why grind coffee beans or stand over hot steam to make a cappuccino? With the new Bosch improvements to the Tassimo machine, hobbiest baristas can join the second wave of computerized appliances. With a small TDISC full of flavouring and the push of a button, create a perfectly measured coffee-shop drink in the time it takes to boot up the on-line morning paper. No mess, no grounds and no waiting. Just pure pleasure, one cup at a time.
Madame Zingara. Restaurant and show
It is undeniably lovely inside; the rich colours, the way the mirrored walls reflect back on each other and the small stage at the centre is wreathed in clouds of dry ice Costumed theatricals and grotesques amble about and I think I spot my dear friend Giles among their number, but it turns out to actually be the Bearded Lady.
Trishna Restaurant London
Trishna is a new breed ‘Indian’ with stylish little copper lampshades that hang intimately over each table, bare brick walls painted a fashionable grey and even some of the original wood panelling left to add a bit of tone. So it’s somewhere to fine dine, not a spot to indulge in a post-pub frenzy. That the food hasn’t the coarse kick associated with more traditional British-Indian restaurants is to be applauded; it’s time for the food to come out from under the spice.