When invited to an event, celebrating 700 years of Armagnac production, I thought how bizarre – well who wouldn’t when the theme was pairing Armagnac with Indian cuisine from the Moghul region in the north west of India? It was absolutely an invitation I wasn’t going to turn down and I was glad I didn’t.
‘Hand-picked’ by Harvey Nichols
The idea of Handpicked is that head chef Jeremy Bloor from Harvey Nick’s OXO restaurant takes the press to visit one of his suppliers, in this case, his cheese one. Towny girl Anita Pati tags along avoiding cowpats and gets to eat a locally sourced al fresco lunch in a field with a load of random strangers.
James Martin: Scotch Emissary
BBC Saturday Kitchen presenter and prominent petrol-head, James Martin will be at classic car festival, Goodwood Revival this weekend as ambassador for Speyside single malt, The Singleton of Dufftown.
A potted tale of Canteen
On the 19th of October 2005, Canteen was opened to the public at Old Spitalfields Market where it was welcomed with open arms. Fast forward to today, Canteen remains a firm favourite of critics and customers alike and continues to serve traditional dishes like devilled kidneys, potted duck, fish and chips and treacle tart. And it seems that everyone who is anyone on the food scene has eaten there, liked it and written about it; everyone from A A Gill to Fay Maschler.
Cachaca tasting. Brazil in a bottle
Always ready to be moved by the Brazilian spirit, William Morris sambas into the Langham Hotel for a tutored tasting of some stand out Cachaca cocktails. Then he crawls out again.
The Cambria, Camberwell.
If anyone gives you lip about South London being a cultural wasteland and tells you the only food we specialise in is fried chicken, I suggest you take them down to The Cambria where it’s so good they’ll feel very much at home, wherever they’re from.
Auberge du Lac. A star break wine tasting
Auberge du Lac, Hertfordshire’s only Michelin-starred destination restaurant situated on the Brocket Hall estate, is teaming up with one of Italy’s leading wine producers to launch the first of a series of extraordinary wine tasting events later this year.
Anjum Anand’s Thai noodle, Clawson paneer and vegetable curry
Anjum Anand shows you how to make a delicious curry using Clawson Paneer.
Bel Canto
Intense. That is probably the best way to describe the experience at Bel Canto. You see, at Bel Canto, guests are served by waiters who perform opera at regular intervals. And in the relatively small room of the restaurant, that’s quite a lot of reverberations to take in.
A three course meal courtesy of Prince Charles, sort of.
You may remember that back in September 2009, Waitrose and Duchy Originals joined forces in a partnership deal which gave Waitrose exclusive rights to manufacture, distribute and sell Duchy Originals products. A year later, Duchy Originals from Waitrose has finally hit the shelves so Qin Xie got hold of a couple of products and tried to make an easy meal out of it.