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Food & Drink126Historic Three Cranes pub gets a Gallic makeover
Samuel Pepys’ experience dining at the Three Cranes in January 1662 wasn’t a happy one. The famed diarist did not mince words when he described the best room of the house as “a narrow dogg-hole” that reduced the meal to...
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Food & Drink222Why it’s time for the coffee industry to grow up
Being a relative newbie to the world of coffee, it came as a surprise just how hard it was to hire good, motivated, and engaged baristas. In my first few weeks in the role of CEO at The New...
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Food & Drink204Searcy’s at the Gherkin has the pick of the brunch
Brunch is, by its very nature, the most indulgent of meals. Invented by British writer Guy Beringer in the 1890s as a Sunday cure-all for those who had overindulged the night before, it is timed too early to achieve much beforehand...
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Food & Drink579Top vegan restaurants around the City of London
Plant-based diets have officially taken root in the UK, with 2018 predicted to be the year veganism finally enters the mainstream. The year has already gotten off to a solid start for promoters of animal-free eating, with the organisers of...
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Food & Drink566The wine bar putting stock in stories over spicy finishes
THERE is a slip of paper pinned to the shelf below a Loire Valley Chinon at Humble Grape that reads: “Fat, toasted oak & dark fruits. Made by a cantankerous old French man.” Hundreds more notes just like it decorate the...
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Food & Drink217Starbucks trials ‘latte levy’ in City stores
City workers in need of a caffeine hit will need to bring their own cup or stump up an extra 5p for one at Starbucks as of this week, with the coffee chain trialling its 'latte levy' in stores across central London. Eleven stores...
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Food & Drink785Beyond the bean at The New Black coffee bar
‘BRITS are shunning tea for coffee’, so screeched the headlines in 2017 after a study found 61% of people said they preferred a cup of Joe to good old Rosie Lee. The survey results, generously shared by coffee syrup company Monin, had pundits predicting the...
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Food & Drink436For regional Italian, all roads lead to Via Emilia
“Prosciutto, mortadella, egg pasta, bolognese, balsamic vinegar, olive oil,” restaurateur Christian Pero barely draws a breath between rattling off a list of delicacies from Emilia-Romagna, a region in Italy’s north east near the fertile Po River Valley. He pauses. “Why would...
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Food & Drink226Tradition is twice as spice at India India
MORE than 200 years have past since the Hindoostane Coffee House opened in Marylebone’s George Street and London got the hots for Indian food. Since then, few food traditions have woven themselves into the British cultural fabric quite like a chicken tikka masala washed down...
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Food & Drink380Lose your noodle over Koya City
Type the words “udon” and “London” into Google and the search yields pages and pages of results that point to one restaurant. Koya, a small udon-ya in Soho, is either very good at SEO, or the Capital’s sole source of these...
By Jo Davy