As the first doors on advent calendars are opened, it’s time to start planning properly for the season. Here, we turn our thoughts to the Christmas cocktail hour – with three recipes to ensure you celebrate in style With December’s jam-packed diaries, it’s all too easy for one drinks party to merge with the next. […]

As the market starts to flood with food and drink titles (just in time for Christmas), we pick a few of the best, those that won’t linger unloved on the bookshelf. First up, Emily Holden dips into Olia Hercules’s second book, Kaukasis Food trends come to London to breed, and in the last few years […]

In the run up to Michaelmas (Friday 29th September), our Head Chef Stewart Turner rustles up a tart which highlights the sweet and sour tang of autumn’s last few blackberries Michaelmas – also known as the feast of the archangels – is synonymous with goose (and the practice of rearing geese for the early autumn […]

We asked our Head Chef Stewart Turner to come up with the perfect recipe to match off-dry Riesling: he came up with this sumptuous spicy prawn curry, inspired by the flavours of Bangkok I’m a real fan of Thai food (well, I’ve yet to meet a cuisine that I don’t like…), but Thai is more […]