Beer of the Week: Einstök Icelandic White Ale
Named after the Icelandic word for “unique” – Einstök Brewery is located within the fishing port of Akureyi, 60 miles south of the Arctic Circle.
London’s Best New Restaurant Openings – March 2016
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food With plenty of exciting restaurant openings constantly taking place across the Capital, here’s our pick of the best new restaurants arriving in London over the coming month. Sosharu – Clerkenwell It’s been a long time coming, but Sosharu – the newest restaurant from Chef Jashon Atherton and Irha...
Restaurant Review – Bierschenke
By Adam Clark, @AdamClarkers Bierschenke promises an authentic German beer cellar experience in London, and has clearly found its niche, having moved out of its original space onto a huge multi-level site in the London wall buildings a few minutes walk from Liverpool Street Station. With a friend’s birthday to...
Bar Review – American Bar at The Savoy Hotel
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Widely renowned as the oldest surviving cocktail bar in England – as well as being one of the finest – The American Bar at The Savoy is particularly steeped in British history. First opened in 1893, four years after the initial opening of it’s...
Beer of the Week – Brixton Effra Ale
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Strength: 4.5% ABV Brewed: Brixton, London Founded in 2013 by two local couples, inspired by the energy of Brixton, with its history, noise and vibrant mix of cultures and people, Brixton Brewery make beer in the heart of the neighbourhood. Drawing on traditional techniques,...
Restaurant Review – Orrery
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food It’s quite incredible to think that Marylebone high street is not a semi-rural village nestled on the outskirts of the city. Instead, the mutinous carnage of Oxford Street ebbs dangerously close to one end. The other end, meanwhile, is just feet away from herds...
Restaurant Review – OXO Tower Restaurant
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Throughout the past five years or so, high-rise dining has become increasingly popular within the city. And it’s certainly unsurprising given the erection of so many monolithic new landmarks now piercing the sky, and towering over the iconic structures of yesteryear enticing with their...
The Weekly Cocktail Recipe – The Exiles Gin Julep
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food Having enjoyed an impressive popularity resurgence in recent years, gin is currently taking the drinks market by storm. Last year, for instance, gin sales in the UK surpassed the £1 billion mark for the first time ever, and are predicted to steadily increase in...
Restaurant Review – Patara, Berners Street
By Jonathan Hatchman, Food Editor, @TLE_Food London is widely regarded as one of the world’s most exceptional cities for food, with just about everything any hungry foodie could ever crave all available within less than an hour’s tube ride, give or take. And, aside from British food, it’s no secret...