Tag: food and wine matching

Essential ingredients: strawberries

In our series identifying key seasonal ingredients, our Head Chef Stewart Turner sings the praises of the humble strawberry, while Demetri Walters MW suggests potential vinous partners. On the table: Strawberries and cream has to be the national summer dish, and this month’s recipe is really just an extension of that. I love panna cotta: […]

On the table: Social Wine & Tapas

As part of our ongoing series inspecting London’s gastronomic offering, food writer Victoria Stewart escapes London’s drizzly pavements and settles in at Jason Atherton’s Social Wine & Tapas. ‪There is one thing better than walking off a rain-soaked street and into the hands of smiling restaurant staff, and that’s doing the same thing in August, […]

Essential ingredients: tomatoes

This month our Head Chef Stewart Turner creates a sweet and savoury gazpacho with the season’s tomatoes, while Demetri Walters MW recommends wines to serve alongside this potentially problematic red fruit. On the table: The summer brings an amazing bounty of fruit and vegetables into the kitchen, but two ingredients always stand out for me: […]

On the table: Brunswick House Café

This month food writer Victoria Stewart risks all on the A3036 in the name of gustatory goodness, hopping across the lanes at Vauxhall to visit Brunswick House Café – an intriguing Aladdin’s cave serving sensational seasonal grub. My experience of people talking about Vauxhall was in reference to it having a park amusingly called the pleasure […]