Villandry, the renowned Great Portland Street Foodstore and restaurant, has come up with the perfect ‘cheat’ for a romantic, home cooked Valentine’s meal. The Villandry Prestige Valentine’s hamper contains four delicious courses including foie gras and lobster, and comes with full instructions for easy heating and serving. At £46.50 per head for four courses, hand delivered to your home or office, it is the perfect solution for a beautiful, hassle free Valentine’s meal at home.
London’s Rasa Sayang Offers Slice Of Delicious Tradition This Chinese New Year
Rasa Sayang, a restaurant in London serving authentic Malaysian and Singaporean cuisine, is offering a slice of tradition in the form of one of the most popular Chinese New Year dishes in Asia, Yu Sang. Yu Shang is a dish that is served in most restaurants and household in Asia to promote good luck for the New Year
Brasserie to beat Credit Crunch
Belts are being tightened and the gravy train has been derailed. Luckily however Waterloo Brasserie, with its winning combination of all-day drinking and dining in a stylish modern European setting, has some credit crunch busting offers to help alleviate the gloom.
The Victoria Pub Hotel Restaurant
Approach The Victoria from one direction and you wonder what a nice little pub like this is doing it what appears to be a residential area, albeit one that is rather pricey. Approach from the other direction though and you realise that it’s actually just a stone’s throw from Richmond Park and ideal for walkers, cyclists and anyone to aim for.
A night with the Madame
Madame Zingara’s is an exciting, bohemian circus experience and one with fine dining to accompany the cabaret. Nick Harman went backstage to see how the kitchen pulls off a major meal every night.
How about we go downstairs and enjoy a fine Cognac with a vintage cigar?
Ajay Patel and his wife Bhavna bought a run-down shop that only sold newspapers, cigarettes and sweets in Teddington in 1992. Their vision was to eventually specialise in sales of tobacco, cigars and accessories. The shop on Broad Street started selling lots of stuff that needed to be weighed – tobacco, chocolates etc, so the name Broadweighs was created and the future began.
Value salads launched at Tossed
Tossed, the new generation of healthy eating venues focusing on main course salads, has launched a new ‘value’ range which changes weekly. All priced at £2.95, these uber wholesome salads are big on taste, generous in size, the perfect credit crunch lunch.Freshly made every few hours and displayed in the chiller cabinet, they are ready to ‘grab and go’
Dorot frozen herbs make hot dishes
Frozen herbs? Well why not, they’re convenient and far better than the dried stuff which is about as much use as sawdust. Freezing keeps the flavour and saves the waste normally asscociated with fresh herbs when the last bits go all manky in the fridge. Dorot are the masters at freezng herbs and have some rather tasty recipes. You can find Dorot frozen herbs in Sainsburys.
Take a flavour trip at the Miracle Bar
Always at the forefront of new and exciting food trends, award winning caterer Dish launches the ingenious ‘Dish Miracle Bar’ a fantastic new concept set to become talking point of the social scene, at Madame Tussauds on 3rd February 2009. The Dish Miracle Bar will literally flip guests’ taste buds with an array of specially designed canapés from an array of sour foods such as rhubarb, lemons, limes and even Guinness which will all taste wonderfully sweet!
Stoppard’s son serves no stodge food
Brought to London by Barny Stoppard, son of the playwright Tom Stoppard, Barny’s is a quick service restaurant concept, serving healthy but hearty hot food using the latest fast food technology from America, but replacing frozen, fried and processed ingredients with fresh natural ingredients. This unique project promises to change the popular notion that fast food and the machinery used to produce it has to result in greasy and unsavoury cuisine that is bad for you