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• Bake for Ukraine charity cake sale brings in the big bakers

  

  We're always happy when doing good tastes good, and next weekend's bake sale in aid of Ukraine definitely sounds as though it'll achieve both those aims.

  The event, dreamt up by Toklas Bakery and Instagrammer Clerkenwell Boy, sees some of London's best known restaurants and bakeries taking part. The impressive line-up includes BAO, Flor Bakery, Meringue Girls, Ottolenghi, Violet Bakes and more.

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• Outstanding in the Field tour returns to London for one date

  

  If you don't know about Outstanding in the Field, let us quickly fill you in. This 'roving restaurant without walls' spends the summers travelling across America setting up alfresco dinner tables in the most gorgeous settings - from farms to vineyards and beaches. Their aim is "to connect diners to the origins of their food while celebrating the hardworking hands that feed us".

  Last year they came to the

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• Celebrate St Patrick’s Day with grass-fed Irish beef and Smith & Wollensky

   

  Head down to Smith & Wollensky in Covent Garden for a St Patrick's Day party to remember

• Top chefs and farmers join the Culpeper for a regenerative agriculture festival

  

  If you don't mind a little forward planning, there's a festival of food and drink coming to London in January that we think you should know about. The Culpeper Family of pubs (The Duke of Cambridge, The Green, The Culpepper and The Buxton) are hosting Regenerative Agriculture - a Conversation. The two day event will feature panels and dinners involving key people working to regenerate the UK's food

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• Top chefs tackle the humble sprout for Taste of London's Christmas sprout bar

  

  If your favourite part of the Christmas lunch is not the turkey but the Brussels sprouts then Taste of London's festive edition has just the thing for you.

  The Christmas food festival, which opens in Tobacco Dock this week, is having a one day only Brussels Sprout Bar, and they've roped in four top chefs to tackle everyone's favourite (or most loathed) element of the Christmas spread.

  First up is Jay

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• The National Burger Day party is coming back to London

  

  26/8/21 - updated with all the burger details

  It's so nice to see the big food events coming back to life, isn't it? After last year's craziness, one of our favourites - the National Burger Day Party - is returning with a vengeance for 2021. The event devoted to all things burger related is going to have a central event in the heart of London.

  This year, they'll be taking over Vinegar Yard at London

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• Piper-Heidsieck are throwing a prohibition party at Bentley's

  

  If you've forgotten what it's like to go 'Out Out' and worry that you've lost some of your key social skills, then the folks at Champagne house Piper-Heidsieck have come up with a fun experience to ease you back into the fray.

  For three nights in August they'll be running an immersive prohibition experience in the Swallow Street Rooms at Bentley’s Oyster Bar. We popped in last night to try it out and can

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• Meatopia London is back for 2021 with the line-up headliners revealed

  

  Updated 1/7/21 with headliners

  As sure a sign that London is returning to some kind of normality is the revival of some of the city's food festivals. So we're happy to report that, after a fallow year, Meatopia is coming back in September.

  The meat and fire festival is returning to Tobacco Dock for what will be its eighth year of showcasing great chefs, loads of 'cue, along with a fair amount of

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• Enjoy great wine in London this summer with 31 Days of German Riesling

  

  Enjoy great wine in London this summer with 31 Days of German Riesling's celebration at bars, restaurants and wine merchants.

• Three gin-inspired gardens to look for at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2019

  

  Heading to the RHS Chelsea Flower Show this year? There's a distinct G&T theme to some of the gardens at this year's show.

• Stroud Green deli pays tribute by renaming itself for Delia Smith's 80th birthday

  

  Next week, one of the UK's biggest cookery names turns 80. Yes, Delia Smith celebrates her birthday on 18 June and one North London deli has found the perfect way to honour her.

  The Stroud Green store Deli at 80 will rename itself Delia at 80 for the week. Staff will garb themselves in vintage Norwich Football tops (the team Delia co-owns), there'll be Delia bunting and even a collection of the food writer's vintage cookery

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• Where to eat, drink and watch the Euros in London

  

  In addition to all the London pubs showing the Euro 2020 games, we've put together a handy list of some of London's largest outdoor venues to book a table at for the key games this summer.

• LeBlanq launches luxury cycling tours with Blanc, Bosi, Palmer-Watts and Bradley Wiggins

  

  Love cycling? Love eating well? If you're at the intersection of both of those on a Venn diagram, then LeBlanq would be the perfect holiday for you. Imagine world-class food and the best sports icons in cycling coming together for a weekend.

  Originally organised for last Autumn, before certain restrictions got in the way, it's now kicking off this summer. 

  The man behind this luxury cycling tour is

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• The London Pizza Festival Home Edition is all about demos, recipes and deliveries

  

  Restaurants, bars and pubs are coming back - but what about the festivals? Looks like they're going to be mainly virtual for the foreseeable, which is forcing a lot of folk to be particularly inventive about how they do just that.

  The 2020 London Pizza Festival is one such bash. Run by Daniel Young of Young & Foodish, it's spent the last five years bringing in the crowds at Borough Market. Now that that's not possible the new event will be

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• Watch our aperitivo hour Prosecco tasting on Instagram Live

  

  Missed our online Prosecco tasting? Here's what to buy to recreate it and you can watch our Instagram live video to taste along with us.