Mark Moriarty from the Culinary Counter was crowned the best emerging chef talent from the UK & Ireland at a live cook off for the S.Pellegrino Young Chef 2015 competition. Hosted at Harrods of London, the judging panel comprised four acclaimed chefs – Clare Smyth MBE, Chef Patron at Restaurant Gordon Ramsay, Atul Kochhar, Chef…
Good news everybody, the small batch Woodford Reserve Double Oaked has arrived in the UK. Double Oaked starts life as fully matured Woodford Reserve Distiller’s Select, and then transferred into a second, heavily toasted barrel for a further 12 months. Aroma notes claim rich notes of dark fruit, caramel, sharp honey, chocolate, marzipan and toasted…
Dan Doherty’s meteoric rise to food fame has been swift and decisive. At a mere 28 years of age, he became Executive Chef of Duck & Waffle, one of the UK’s first, high-end 24-hour restaurants perched on 40th floor of London’s iconic Heron Tower. Born and raised in Shrewsbury, a quaint town nestled on the…
A century ago, had you walked into a bar and simply asked for an Old Fashioned, quite likely you’d have been answered with an inquisitive raise of the handlebar ‘tache. The very name of the cocktail we all know and recognise as the go-to tipple for serious whisky cocktail imbibers was purely an instruction for…
Ditch the barbie, beers and pavlova and create your own Antipodean experience with inspiration from Australia’s number one wine brand, Hardys. THE WINES Hardys Stamp Sparkling Pinot Chardonnay Chardonnay: regrettable name for a girl, but a rather undervalued white wine at the moment. Each glass delivers fresh lime with hints of nectarine and apricot and a…
Style. A good thing right? Stylish people, stylish things, stylish places, stylish magazine. In his mesmerising ‘lost’ 1971 interview, Bruce Lee says “I do not believe in styles anymore: because of styles people are separated. They are not united together because styles became law.” Granted, he was talking about style in the context of Jeet…
It’s almost unsurprising to see a line of shiny Morgan cars in various pristine hues rocking up at Cromlix House, near Dunblane. They look like they belong on the gravel. I mean, how else is one going to get to Gleneagles for a spot of clay pigeon shooting? Cromlix House isn’t a razzle-dazzle kind of…
After you’ve sampled all the warehouse parties and love parades and art collectives that make the Last Great Bohemian city in Europe, it’s time for dinner. I’m not going to wax lyrical about fried chicken and beer in Berlin. Henne is a century-old, world-renowned restaurant in Kreuzberg that serves a sublime brine and milk-soaked…
Why not mix mischief and pleasure with the worlds most awarded gin this New Year. The Snowflake Ball 50ml Tanqueray London Dry Gin 15ml lemon juice 15ml lime juice 1/2 an egg white 15ml double cream 3 dashes of orange flower water 15ml sugar syrup Top with soda Cinnamon powder Method – add all ingredients but…
Restaurants in London come and go. People move on; tastes change; leases run out and new ones become prohibitive. Good sites are snapped up by hamburger and pizza chains and coffee shops now proliferate. But some places stand the test of time and one such, about to celebrate its 30th year, is Sally Clarke’s on…