Profiles

How to get hold of bottles from London’s best restaurants for wine
While eateries remain closed, we round up the ways you can get your hands on bottles from London’s top wine-focused restaurants as rated by 2020’s Wine List Confidential guide.

Table Talk: André Garrett
The Corinthia London’s executive chef on an epic lunch at The Waterside Inn, eating puffer fish in Japan, and the beautiful simplicity of Chablis and oysters.

Top 10 food and drink trends for 2021
With the coronavirus pandemic having shaped many of the food and drink trends that emerged last year, we bring you our top 10 trend predictions for 2021.

Table Talk: Jeremy Lee
The ebullient head chef of Quo Vadis on the joyful union of langoustines and white Burgundy, eating porcupine offal, and being treated to rare bottles of Rhône by Bill Baker.

London restaurateurs react to tier three ruling
After only two weeks of trading since the last lockdown, hospitality businesses across London have been forced to close yet again, with just over 24 hours’ notice. Eloise Feilden speaks to four restaurateurs in the UK capital to find out what being moved into tier three will mean for their businesses.

Top London restaurants offering delivery
With London restaurants shuttered again following the capital’s move into tier three, we’ve rounded up some of the best delivery offerings to sink your teeth into over the holidays.

London restaurants with Christmas and New Year hampers and wine
We round-up a selection of London restaurants, which featured in this year’s Wine List Confidential guide, that are offering Christmas and New Year hampers, meals and wines for delivery and collection.

Mr Yquem: How Leonid Shutov got Londoners sipping Sauternes
We catch up with Leonid Shutov, the Russian entrepreneur turned London restaurateur who got the capital pressing for Champagne and ordering Château d’Yquem by the glass at his whimsical diner deluxe, Bob Bob Ricard in Soho.

Winter warmers: London’s best festive pop-ups
With London out of lockdown, a plethora of festive fixtures have popped up around the capital to get you in the Christmas mood, from 100 Wardour’s Alpine Lodge to the igloos at Somerset House.

Table Talk: Anthony Demetre
The chef/proprietor of Wild Honey St James on cooking chocolate mousse with his Greek grandmother, eating dog in Vietnam, and drinking Trimbach Riesling Michel Bras’ Le Suquet.

Top new entries in this year’s Wine List Confidential
We round-up the top new entries in this year’s Wine List Confidential, which sees 22 restaurants make their first appearance in the guide.

Meet London’s top restaurant group wine buyers
With restaurants in London allowed to reopen this week, Lucy Shaw talks to some of the capital’s top group wine buyers to find out how they’re navigating their way through the pandemic, and the challenges that come with buying wine across multiple sites.