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Finally reaches the parts other beers can’t reach…

Photography by version3point1 Lots going on and much to take in during this year’s London Restaurant Festival. A “citywide celebration of eating out”, the festival (now in its second year) is the brainchild of London Evening Standard restaurant critic Fay Maschler and restaurant consultant Simon …

Here’s an event that just needs some interpretive mime, and perhaps some synchronised swimming, and you’d have almost every activity known to man and woman in one venue. On Saturday and Sunday evenings, ArtForEating are hosting five-course meals with a molecular gastronomical twist. The menu …

View London Pub Quizzes in a larger map Over the past two weeks, we’ve been soliciting suggestions for the best regular pub quizzes in London. We’ve had plenty of suggestions, tweeted through to #bestldnpubquiz and left in the comments. The handy map above includes all …

Blonde beer? White Russian? Red wine? How about some Green Drinks? London hosts 20 monthly eco-minded gatherings all over the city, from Balham to Brixton, Hackney to Hounslow and Streatham to Sutton. The premise is simple: meet up with fellow greenies in your area and …

Meet the frappucino’s sexier cousin, the exotic one he sort of secretly fancies. Originally from Taiwan, bubble tea is ice-blended black tea and plenty of milk shaken to a deliciously frothy consistency with soft chewy “bubbles” of tapioca at the bottom. Californians refer to the …

Photography by Chris Osburn Taking over Saatchi Gallery with two hundred winemakers showcasing more than a thousand wines, yesterday’s Bibendum Times Annual Tasting gave those in the vino biz and those wishing to write about such transactions a fantastic sample of what to expect at …

Photography by Chris Osburn From its very first Narnia-esque moment of entering the rundown MC Motors frontage on a grubby Dalston side street to once inside being transported to an edgily buzzed playground of sensory delights, Saturday night’s Towards a Fluid State food and drink …

Every month, the folks at Fancyapint? get together to vote for their top ten favourite pubs. These are recently visited pubs that for one reason or another (the ambience, the booze, the company) stuck in their collective memory. Kindly, these booze-savvy Fancyapinters have decided to …

On a buzzy Friday night we were invited to Public House for dinner. The name suggested boozer but we couldn’t picture the location on Islington Park Street. The website yelped elegant bar and the sample menu made us salivate. Were we going to a pub …