Tag: London

Your guide to London Wine Week

Today marks the start of the Big Smoke’s annual celebration of wine, and with hundreds of events and offers on around the city, we highlight the ones we’ll be making a beeline for This year’s London Wine Week “hub” is Flat Iron Square – drop by for jeroboams of Pol Roger, white Port and tonic […]

Our new Chenin Blanc

Our Own Selection Old-Blocks Chenin has just landed; here Buyer Katherine Dart MW explains how the wine found its way into our range and why it’s worth trying Tierhoek is a tiny estate nestled at the foot of the Skimmelsberg Mountain in the Piekenierskloof. It is one of the oldest surviving, original Sandveld farms, dating […]

On the table: Cabotte

With Burgundy on the mind ahead of January’s en primeur, we sent Sophie Thorpe to sample the list at Cabotte Last week, I tasted a cheese like no other. A cheese that – bizarrely – I couldn’t devour a block of. A cheese so mesmerising that I have thought about it at least once every […]

On the table: Hoppers, St Christopher’s Place

London’s second Hoppers is the latest in a series of restaurants challenging British perceptions of South Asian cuisine. We sent Alexis Self to Marylebone to sample its rich karis and famous flatbreads Though a mere falafel’s throw from Dean Street, Marylebone is a world away in dining terms. Not here for the queues and sharing […]