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• The best London restaurants to eat grouse from The Glorious Twelfth

  

  From estate to plate, here's where you'll find grouse on the menu at London restaurants from the start of the grouse season.

• Lyle's start delivering - with three new food boxes available nationwide

  

  As the lockdown continues one of the (few) positives is that there are now many more opportunities to get meals from some of London's best restaurants sent right to your door - anywhere in the country. The latest to throw their hat into the ring is particularly interesting - as the Michelin-starred Lyle's gets ready to send out their own boxes. 

  There are three boxes -

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• In and out: Test Driving the grouse menu at 45 Jermyn St. and the Glorious Grouse kit from Mac and Wild

  

  For London's grouse lovers there are two ways to enjoy the game bird - in restaurants and at home. We gave both a try.

• Five great game dishes to eat in London right now

  

  Wild British game - it's seasonal, it's local, no wonder London chefs are loving putting it on their menus. Everyone goes crazy when grouse hits restaurants for The Glorious Twelfth in August, but the game season is now fully on with everything from partridge to woodcock and mallard available. We've picked out a few hero dishes where you can try it in London right now.

• Test Driving The Woodsman - Stratford-upon-Avon's hot new restaurant

  

  When the chap behind Michelin-starred pub The Harwood Arms opens a new place devoted to British food cooked over fire in Bard country, we thought it was worth taking a look. And yes, it happens to have a cracking cocktail trolley too. Sold.

• Test Driving the Wild Pasta menu at The Ninth on Charlotte Street

  Knowing how much Londoners love their pasta, we popped along to Jun Tanaka's Fitzrovian restaurant to check out his new seasonal menu.

• Lyle's reveal their line-up for 2016's Game dinners

  

  If you've wanted to attend either of Lyle's previous two game events but weren't fast enough off the mark, then this year might be the year you finally get to go. Hot Dinners have the scoop on the 2016 line-up for this top chef event and it looks pretty unmissable.

  The gist of it is that Lyle's chef James Lowe invites really interesting chefs from all over the world to come and cook over two days in October. But the dinners are the

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• Fancy some finger-licking pheasant?

  

  With all the spurious National Weeks we have flying around it's not surprising that a London pub chain has taken it upon itself to launch its own such week. This is how National Pheasant Week came about. It's the brainchild of the ETM group and takes place from the 16-22 November 2015.

  Which is where this rather marvellous sounding dish comes into play. The Finger Lickin’ Pheasant Bucket costs £15 and features eight

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• Racine's epic grouse returns for one night only at Craft London

  

  If you were tempted by blogger Chris Pople's elegiac account of eating grouse at Racine last year, only to have your hopes at replicating that meal dashed when chef Henry Harris decided to close the restaurant down, then we have good news for you. Henry is returning to the pass for a night at Craft London to cook up a game supper worth

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