Sommelier Honey Spencer has joined forces with Pidgin’s former head chef, Elizabeth Haigh, on a series of pop-up dinners at Narroway Studio in Hackney.

WLC’s resident foodie, Lucy Shaw, heads to A. Wong’s second act, Kym’s, in the Bloomberg Arcade, for giant rice crackers, heavenly Ibérico pork char sui, and Sichuan Sours.

In the fourth instalment of our Guilty Pleasure series, in association with Côtes du Rhône Wines, we discover chef Roger Jones’ penchant for lambs testicles and secret visits to his restaurant’s cellar armed with his Coravin.

Fabrizio De Fenzo, head sommelier at Ristorante Frescobaldi in Mayfair, set out on his path to becoming a sommelier at the tender age of 16, working at L’Anima, Sartoria and Petrus before finding a home at Frescobaldi.

Berry Bros. & Rudd’s best-selling wine, Good Ordinary Claret, has been given a dapper makeover by artist Kate Boxer, mother of London chef Jackson Boxer.

A wine bar inspired by Greek philosopher Diogenes, one of the founders of cynic philosophy, is to open in Elephant and Castle in south London next month.

A new independent fine wine shop and bar is set to open inside Mews of Mayfair, a four-floor restaurant and bar space in a cobbled courtyard close to Bond Street.

Ex-Noma and Gordon Ramsay Group chef Tilly Turbet will open a new restaurant in Mayfair next month, inspired by the former King’s Road restaurant Pucci Pizza, which opened in Chelsea in the 1970s.

WLC’s greedy gourmand, Lucy Shaw, heads to Mayfair stalwart The Greenhouse for smoked sturgeon mousse, an impossibly pretty cep tart, and a Chartreuse-laced soufflé.

Restaurants that play uplifting music are more likely to see their diners leave generous tips, according to a study by researchers in Austria. 

A vineyard in Derbyshire enlisted local volunteers with “no minging feet” for what it believes to be the region’s first grape treading, as it gears up to launch its inaugural Pétillant Naturel in time for Christmas. 

“It is not true that Prosecco has a shelf life of just a few months, the real Prosecco can have a longer shelf life than Champagne’, claims Sandro Bottega, head of Prosecco producer Bottega.