Marcus attends a dinner with wine expert Olly Smith at the Hotel du Vin, and finds his warm eccentricity just as enjoyable as the wine.

Alan Kingsbury gets caught up in ‘tapas frenzy’ during the week of the Spanish National Tapas Competition in the gastronomic city of Valladolid.

The Loving Excellence website is a drool wish list,  online ordering is straightforward and there’s still time to take delivery and have a very excellent Christmas. We take a taste.

How does one go about the daunting task of reinventing a 120-resturant business from the ground up? Alex Ozga has lunch with Theo Randall and the bigwigs of ASK Italian to find out.

Deepest Highgate was darkest too that night. And rainy and shot through with the kind of cold winds that are fantastic help if you ever wish to forget you have a nose and toes, but pretty unwelcome assistance if you’ve any other goal in mind. This was the first time a vineyard had invited me to its birthday,

Ever wondered what really goes on in the Saturday Kitchen? Nick Harman gets an invite to watch from behind a camera and finds a show that really is as fun as it looks.

Do you lust after James Martin? Does seeing how fast your favourite chef can make a three egg omelette make you squirm with excitement? Cactus Kitchens, who produce BBC One’s Saturday morning primetime food show, have opened their studios up to normal punters like you and I for their Taste of Saturday Kitchen experience.

His name is spoken with a tone of hushed reverie amongst the culinary cognoscenti. On Sunday, the acclaimed Rene Redzepi, founder of the two Michelin star Noma in Copenhagen, was in Islington’s Almeida Theatre to give a talk about his new book.

The strengths of these dishes and the other tempting combinations in the’Simply Italian’ range is the deviation from the usual dry paste found in similar fresh pastas. Ingredients such as the cheese found in the Selected Italian Cheeses Ravioli are predominately products of designated origin.

A bowl of meatballs is a classic winter warmer, especially when eaten cuddled up on the sofa in front of a movie!