If you were anywhere near Liverpool Street Station towards the end last week you may have wondered what on earth was going on. Round the back of the station in Broadgate Arena – that circular …

Last Friday we had a rather special lunch here in Spoonfed Towers. Instead of the usual bland and overpriced supermarket sandwich, gobbled down at our desks, the editorial team were instead treated to some rather …

The days of shooting Tequila between barrels of lager and splicing them with sambucas are over. Tequila Chamucos have set their raison d’etre to improving the reputation of the Mexican drink from being the late …

This is not, I have to confess, the kind of place I usually find myself in. As far as I can tell, Tower Bridge is where people who don’t really know London go for a …

It’s about time that North London had some place to compete with the South’s swanky Wandsworth and Brixton branches of the Grand Union. And considering the posh pub’s twelfth addition to the family is smack …

The usual formula for restaurant reviews these days is predictably tripartite: 1, the critic bangs on about his girlfriend/gout/celebrity pals for as many words as the subs allow. 2, the critic mentions the food. 3, …

Nestled in the quaint quarters of Chancery Lane sits Baranis, a chic new bar offering a cocktail-infused taste of Provence. With the promise of free food and quality booze, I’ve roped a friend along for …

Tomas reviews the latest Zilli branch of restaurants that has opened in Soho – Zilli Green!

You might not know you do, but you do. You know James Street. It’s that one that runs parallel to St Christopher’s Place, from Bond Street up towards Marylebone High Street, that one that tries …

I go past Grand Union on Upper Street almost every day on the bus on the way to work, but for some reason I hadn’t got round to paying a visit until last week. In …

I’ll be brutally honest, posh places kind of scare me. I don’t know if it’s some ingrained worry of not belonging or standing out or something but there’s always this nagging worry in the back …

An unassuming little place, nestled in the cobbles of Battersea High Street, with simple wooden furniture and several locals propping up the bar, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Chez Manny was just another average …

What do you look for in a bar? For some it’s great drinks; for others a lively atmosphere. For me, I reckon, it’s somewhere I feel happy and comfortable – somewhere I can return to …

Cocktails are funny things – get them wrong and they’re simply an overpriced waste of some perfectly adequate booze. Get them right though, and you can have something truly wonderful on your hands. Well I’m …