Competitions, Design, Food & Drink
You’d be hard pressed not to get the concept behind the new cookbook from the Canteen restaurant group, which is just out (Ebury). Yes it’s British, yes there’s food involved, and — assuming you know how to follow a recipe — it’ll be pretty great too. It also looks rather handsome, as the pictures after the jump show, plus find out how to win one of five copies we’re giving away. (more…)
March 9th, 2010
Behind the scenes, Food & Drink
Press releases come in many different forms. We’ve featured some of the stranger and more lavish on this website before but we can honestly say that until yesterday we had never received a Konditor & Cook cake mocked up as a giant bottle of Wash & Go, in celebration of the preeminent all-in-one shampoo and conditioner brand’s 21st birthday. Don’t they say you should never eat blue food?
March 5th, 2010
You’d think it might be hard to add some genuine freshness to Soho’s saturated food scene but new Indian street food joint Mooli’s has managed just that. (more…)
February 25th, 2010
Earlier this month, Esquire partnered with Glenmorangie whisky to gather the great and the good (that would be you) for our inaugural Innovation Salon, in which – over a few post-work cocktails in the plush environs of London’s Home House - we quizzed the ever outspoken Wayne Hemingway MBE on design and innovation for the benefit of a roomful of Esquire readers. (more…)
February 23rd, 2010
Drink, Entertainment, Food & Drink
If you want to toast Colin Firth’s majestic Bafta acceptance speech over breakfast this morning, here is a recipe for another star of the evening, the nattily titled “L’Orange Bafta” cocktail. (more…)
February 22nd, 2010
Competitions, Food & Drink, Restaurants, Top Fives
Once again, the Twittersphere has spoken. Last week on Twitter (@esquireuk), we were extolling the virtues of our local chippy, The Golden Union on Poland Street, when all hell broke loose. The merits of crispy batter and expertly fried chips quickly snowballed into a heated (though not overcooked) debate on the best fish and chip bar in the UK. And Hungry of Tunbridge Wells certainly had his say… (more…)
February 19th, 2010
Food & Drink, Restaurants, Review
We love it when a minor royal ups the people-watching ante when we check out a new restaurant. The night Esquire visited new cabaret club Circus in Covent Garden Princess Beatrice (accompanied by bodyguard and obligatory boat and ballet-shoe wearing posse) was there. Had somebody tipped her off we were coming? (more…)
February 17th, 2010
We can’t quite decide if this is the most brilliant thing we’ve ever seen — or the most disgusting. Yes it’s a scotch egg, but the egg white is vanilla ganache, the yolk is passion fruit ganache, the pork is chocolate marshmallow with puffed rice, and the breadcrumbs are grated chocolate. Still, nothing celebrates the resurrection of the Lord Jesus like a ball of fake sausage meat. (more…)
February 16th, 2010
