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Chefs at home - London's chefs are cooking for themselves during lockdown (11 April)

Information: 11 April 2020

Looking for inspiration? With chefs self-isolating at home, many of them are showing just what's possible in your own kitchen. We've picked five of the best from the past week.

Eat and cook with other Londoners at The Deli Cat - a virtual supper club

Information: 09 April 2020

Online wine tastings, where you try wine (sent to you in advance) from the comfort of your own homes, have been around for years. But the current Lockdown has encouraged food and restaurant folk to...

Darby's in Nine Elms is opening its hatch as a bakery and deli

Information: 08 April 2020

8/4/20 - Update - after temporarily closing, the Darby's hatch is now up and running again. Down in Vauxhall, Robin Gill and his team at Darby's are opening their hatch, having turned the restaurant into a...

Leon has launched its new delivery service, Feed Britain

Information: 08 April 2020

They may have closed all their London restaurants, but now Leon are back with a completely new service that delivers right across London. Called Feed Britain, they're looking to make it easier for...

Côte launch Côte At Home - bringing their restaurants to your door

Information: 08 April 2020

We've been talking a lot about what London's more independent and high-end restaurants are doing since the lockdown but, of course, the chains are finding it hard too. So it's interesting today to...

Dominique Ansel Bakery extend their Cronut delivery range for Easter

Information: 08 April 2020

In the past few weeks, we've seen more and more restaurants, cafes and bakeries open all over town, offering delivery for the first time. But every so often there's something that you really want...

Mark Hix's restaurants go into administration

Information: 07 April 2020

We all know how tough it is in the restaurant business right now, so we're sad to be reporting the demise of Mark Hix's restaurant empire. The news was broken by The Telegraph over the weekend,...

The Feelgood Food Feed - cheery news during the coronovirus crisis

Information: 07 April 2020

If you're looking for news stories to take your mind off the awfulness of the current coronovirus crisis, you've come to the right place. Here's what the food world are doing to make things just a...

Monty's Deli are running a salt beef bagel delivery service

Information: 07 April 2020

We'll be honest, we completely missed this news when it was first announced - but if we didn't know, there's a good chance you didn't either. So think of this as a public service announcement. Many...

Get beer from your favourite London restaurants at home, including Bao, Salon and more

Information: 06 April 2020

The latest lockdown version of "let the restaurant come to you" comes from delivery beer company Biercraft. They've teamed up with a pretty impressive list of restaurants, creating cases featuring the...

Chefs at home - London's chefs are cooking for themselves in self-isolation (3 April)

Information: 03 April 2020

Looking for inspiration? With chefs self-isolating at home, many of them are showing just what's possible in your own kitchen. We've picked five of the best from the past week.

The Oystermen have launched a shop that delivers across London

Information: 03 April 2020

We've already seen that many restaurants are becoming shops during the current lockdown, and the latest to join them is The Oystermen. They may be based right in the heart of London in Covent Garden -...

Holborn Dining Room's Calum Franklin is bringing out a pie book

Information: 02 April 2020

File this under "now that's something good to look forward to". We (and many, many others) have often waxed lyrical about Calum Franklin and his preternaturally gifted skills at pie-making. But how -...

Jack Monroe and Matt Tebbutt join forces for Daily Kitchen show on the BBC

Information: 02 April 2020

Twitter burst into spontaneous virtual applause today with the news that the BBC has commissioned Jack Monroe for its newest cookery programme. Following weeks in which Jack's legions of fans urged The...

The Clarence in Stoke Newington kicks off a delivery service with pies, dauphinoise & more...

Information: 02 April 2020

Just pre-lockdown, we wrote about new pub The Clarence, which saw a Stoke Newington institution taken over by the people behind the much-loved Anchor and Hope. Alas, then came the lockdown and they...

Test Driving Le Marche des Chefs hampers - Hot Dinners At Home

Information: 02 April 2020

With every restaurant in London shut (except for those doing deliveries), their suppliers are looking for new customers. The good news is that London's foodies are the beneficiaries.

Claridge's hotel reopens to put up NHS workers during the Covid-19 crisis

Information: 01 April 2020

It's sad to witness any businesses closing their doors during the London lockdown. But seeing landmark hotels, which had remained open throughout both world wars, battening the hatches seemed...

The Quality Chop House Shop is back in action

Information: 01 April 2020

Have you been going low on pork pies and confit potatoes? Well, if you're local to Clerkenwell, the painful wait is over. The Quality Chop House shop closed just as the current lockdown began, as...

There will be no World's 50 Best Restaurants awards this year

Information: 31 March 2020

As there are no actual restaurants open in many places across the world right now, the people behind the World's 50 Best Restaurants have made the fairly sensible decision to delay their next awards...

Cyber Fest - a virtual beer fest - is coming

Information: 27 March 2020

Obviously, there aren't and festivals happening right now - particularly beer festivals. But that isn't stopping beer delivery service Beer 52. They're launching a virtual beer festival, Cyber Fest,...

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