Wallace & Gromit are whipping up a frenzy from the 2nd - 8th December 2013 - calling on the nation to roll out your rolling pins, whip out your whisk and preheat your ovens to help raise some 'dough' for kids in hospitals and hospices across the UK. Whether you bake cupcakes or cheesecakes, pies or pastries, brownies or bloomers, or your own unique showstopper now is the time to rise to the occasion.
Morgans Hotel Group have announced the debut of Henry, a cocktail bar and lounge featuring an inventive and experimental mixology program at Hudson. Located just off the hotel's lobby in midtown, Henry draws inspiration from the legendary explorer Henry Hudson and his boundless spirit of adventure. Spanning a wide variety of liquors, the cocktail menu was ingeniously crafted by the bar's creative director and world-renowned mixologist Ryan Chetiyawardana, a two-time UK bartender of the year who's best known throughout London as the "Heston Blumenthal of cocktailing."
The Ambrette award-winning restaurants in Margate is to host another 'Flavours of Syria' gourmet evenings to raise funds for victims of conflict in the country. Chef patron Dev Biswal has developed a special tasting menu of dishes from the region with the help of Turkish and Kurdish friends from the regions. The menu will be served on 29th September in Margate, priced at £25 per head, £5 of which will be donated to Syria Relief.
With crowds stretching out into the morning rain and a new surge of visitors arriving with each passing train it is a sure sign that this year's Cake & Bake Show at London's Earls Court was going to prove as popular as it was in 2012.
Even more phenomenal artists, attractions and acts have been confirmed for the 9th London International Tattoo Convention, the greatest, most respected and prestigious body art convention in the world, taking place over the weekend of 27th, 28th and 29th September at Tobacco Dock, 50 Porters Walk, London E1W 2SF.
September 2013 sees the launch of 'Kitchen Clinic', a six-week unique series of Vegetarian and Vegan food and drink events in the heart of Soho by the team behind Sutra Kitchen, Central London's first exclusively Vegetarian cooking school. Creating a platform for smaller concepts, some run from living rooms and as a 'second job', Kitchen Clinic will showcase a fabulous mix of talented individuals and some truly delicious food where vegetables and herbs take centre stage.
