Saki, the Japanese restaurant and bar in Smithfield is renowned for its excellent sake list and for promoting Japan’s favourite drink among London’s discerning diners. This March, Saki dedicates the whole month to sake from Japan’s Nagano prefecture.
Festival de la Mer at le Bouchon Breton during March and April 2009
This Spring, Spitalfields best loved French brasserie, Le Bouchon Breton launches a stunning Festival de la mer, an exceptionally well priced selection of seafood based treats to celebrate the last few months of the season. Throughout March and April, the team at Le Bouchon Breton have come up with a very special seafood ‘Festival menu” which features three delectable seafood courses, ½ a bottle of white Burgundy (Macon) per person all for the recession busting price of just £25 a head. This menu is available at both lunch and dinner.
The National Cookbook by Oliver Peyton
In The National Cookbook over 120 traditional dishes are given a modern twist by restaurateur and Great British Menu judge Oliver Peyton and his chefs. Since opening in 2006, the award-winning National Dining Rooms has established itself as a favourite with London’s National Gallery visitors, offering a great British eating experience.
Ribollita Soup
Keep warm this March with this delicious, easy to make Ribollita Soup from olive oil specialists, Filippo Berio. Packed full of healthy vegetables including carrots, courgettes and beans, it’s the perfect pick me up until the sunshine arrives!
Babylon Roof Gardens restaurant
It’s popular, this design trope of papering one wall with loud, geometric and rather 70’s patterns. Stick a Yes poster on the wall and it could be one quarter of my teenage bedroom. If anyone is going to do it in a restaurant though then Babylon Roof Gardens (prop. R. Branson) is the one.
Mums eat free for Mother’s Day
Celebrating Mother’s Day, Mela, the country-style Indian restaurant group is spoiling all mums by treating them to a delicious meal on the 22nd March for absolutely nothing! What better way to show your Mum how much you love her than to whisk her to Mela for a delicious range of Indian dishes from the à la carte menu, while you can tuck in too – knowing that it’s not going to break the bank.
Tanqueray® Gin and Magnum Photos join forces for a unique photography competition and exhibition
The makers of Tanqueray® Gin have teamed up with the world’s most prestigious photo agency, Magnum photos, to offer amateur photographers the chance to win £5,000 and have their work showcased alongside Stuart Franklin, the president of Magnum and some of the world’s greatest photographers in a unique exhibition.
Korean Beef Tartare
This recipe is an absolutely delicious introduction to eating raw meat. If you’ve ever had carpaccio or steak tartare, this Korean version known as ‘Yuk Hwe’ is a brilliant next step. The sesame dressing is really addictive!
The Oak Restaurant
Whilst sitting on the train, on my way over to Teddington to review this restaurant, I wondered how busy it would be. What with the credit crunch clamping us by the jugular and consistent job losses, I was intrigued by how the suburbs were coping. On arrival, at 1 o’clock, it was plain to see. We were the only people there, and for the two hours we were there, three others came in for lunch and two locals enjoyed a pint, on separate tables.
Mela Restaurant Redhill
My understanding of Indian food is largely based on years of always-the-same-order telephone takeaways (`yes, that’s right, the usual … chicken dhansak please`) or crouching in the funereal silence of a high street curry house exchanging sidelong glances with the waiter, who regards you with that finely-honed mixture of caution and contempt perfected through years of doling out lager and baltis to rowdy, over refreshed men in outsize sportswear.