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Noodle & Beer is sending us to the moon and back with an exclusive mooncake and cocktail pairing for Mid-Autumn festival
Even if you don’t know much about Mid-Autumn Festival (or know nothing at all), you would have seen images of streets and parks light up with huge red lanterns, sometimes shaped like animals or symbols. Something springing to mind? This Chinese and East Asian festival (called Mid-Autumn or Moon festival) marks the end of harvest…
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September in food: The 9 new London restaurants and bars you need to book ASAP
September is a good month to be eating in London. The city is back in full swing, the diary is filling up again and, conveniently, there’s a whole new crop of places to put in it. After the slightly looser pace of summer, this month brings a noticeable shift in the restaurant scene: chefs return…
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Spritz up your life: The 9 must-try aperitifs for summer
What says summer more than a spritz in hand? But after our umpteenth heatwave, even Aperol can start to feel less like a seasonal treat and more like the default order you reach for on autopilot. This summer, we’re looking beyond the usual orange-hued suspects to explore the wider world of aperitifs – from floral…
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August in food: The new restaurants and bars we’ll be booking first
This is peak summer, and while most restaurateurs shy away from launching mid-season (most of London is currently living its best Ibiza life), a handful of restaurants and bars have decided to go all in with an August opening instead, and we’re here for it. This month’s list includes Vagabond’s new Canary Wharf outpost (yes,…
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Here are the new food & drinks events coming to London – pizza, cocktails & more
August in London doesn’t empty restaurants and bar staff outnumbering customers, just because half of the city is away. Between a Neapolitan pizza village landing by Tower Bridge, a month of Daiquiris across six bars, a Georgian garden turned cocktail village and a brand new festival taking over two of the capital’s most-booked postcodes, there’s…
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Snack attack: New research reveals why the three-meal day is disappearing
Over the last few years, the working day stopped running on breakfast, lunch and dinner and started running on something closer to a series of alarms. Italian food-to-go brand Coco di Mama has surveyed 1,000 UK adults to find out exactly when the nation’s cravings strike, as part of “Made to Be Craved,” a campaign…
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La vie in rosé: You can now sip on Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy’s rosé from a Covent Garden terrace
Roseblood d’Estoublon is bringing its summer terrace back to Covent Garden, this time taking over The Piazza itself. It launched on 15 July and runs and will be open until 2 August, every day from 11am to 9pm. This isn’t Roseblood’s first summer residency in the area – the brand has previously run terraces at…
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London bars are throwing a month-long Daiquiri party, in celebration of Cuba’s iconic cocktail
This Sunday marks 127 years of the Daiquiri, and six London bars are using the occasion as an excuse for a full month of limited-edition menus, running throughout July in partnership with rum brand Ron Santiago de Cuba. Expect bar-specific twists on the original, live Cuban music nights, and giveaways at select venues. Daquiri’s backstory…
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July in food: London’s best new restaurants & bars to try this month
July arrives with London’s biggest hospitality groups all making their move at once. Little Door & Co, Mr Fogg’s and Coppa Club are each opening their largest sites to date, Pachamama Group is bringing a restaurant back from Abu Dhabi, and a fresh wave of independents – a British-focused handroll bar, an Istanbul coffee import,…
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A matcha made in heaven: Bombolone x Blendsmiths are bringing us exclusive matcha doughnuts and drinks
Remember when matcha was the cool-girl drink a few years ago? It still is. But these days you’re not just drinking it from a coffee cup – it’s turning up in our favourite treats too, doughnuts included. Bombolone Doughnuts, the Italian artisanal doughnut shop just off Trafalgar Square, has launched a limited-edition matcha bombolone in…
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