Archive for 'London'

The King and Thai in Broseley, Shropshire, are winners of prestigious UK Thai Eatery - Asian Curry Restaurant of the Year Award
At a star studded ceremony held at the London Lancaster Gate Hotel last night, over 400 restaurateurs, and industry specialists packed the opulent dining suite, to hear the nominees and lucky winners.
The King and Thai were [...]

Selfridges Birmingham  launched their Project Ocean last week, and on Tuesday hosted Midlands food journalists, and ETM kindly invited along to their Gallery Moet Bar & Restaurant to sample their sustainable produce. This is an inspiring initiative that challenges the public to imagine a world with “no more fish in the sea”.  Project Ocean is [...]

Adam Bennett, head chef at Simpson’s Restaurant in Edgbaston, has beaten some of the country’s top culinary talent to scoop second place in this year’s National Chef of the Year competition.
Run by the Craft Guild of Chefs, this is one of the UK’s most respected culinary competitions, acknowledging and rewarding the crème de la crème [...]

The new Arch Hotel and Restaurant London Review

The Arch Hotel, London

I often like to escape the beauty of the countryside and indulge in some city life and its related adrenalin, with all the trappings of convenience, opulence and pampering – what better place than one of the new London Gourmet-Set additions to Gourmet Life, Midlands’ [...]

Arch London Afternoon Tea - Champagne & Strawberry Eclair!

Many visitors from overseas still imagine that we are a nation where at half past three, everything stops for tea!
Sadly these days Afternoon Tea is usually only an occasional luxury for us mere mortals, a Sunday treat in a country house hotel, or a welcome break [...]

During yesterdays successful launch of Shrewsbury based Wrexham and Shropshire Railways’ new rolling stock, at Marylebone station London, local hotelier, Howard Astbury of the Lion Hotel, Wyle Cop (pictured with Michael Palin), was praised for his support in helping promote the service from Shrewsbury to London.
Howard explained the historic links of the hotel with the [...]

I love trains. Not in the notepad, rucksack, end-of-platformclicking-camera sort of way, but the concept of the golden age of trains – Brief Encounter style, with well-maintained stations and attentive, smart, uniformed, platform staff helping with luggage and directing confused travellers towards trains which arrive, and leave, on time.
Some of my most memorable travels have [...]

Aktar Islam of Lasan Congratulated by James Day of ETM

Lasan Winners of Best Local Restaurant as Voted their customers, and judged by Gordon Ramsey’s ‘F’ Word (and yours truly) on Channel Fours ‘F’ Word Finals.
Congratulations Lasan & Team!

We were granted the exclusive final lunch interview with Executive Chef Aktar before his busy afternoon of preparing [...]

Lasan Birmingham ~ Winners of  The ‘F’ Word Final with Gordon Ramsey?
See if the team at top Midlands Asian restaurant ‘Lasan’ win this Thursday night on Channel 4 The F Word with Gordon Ramsey in his search for Britain’s Best Local Restaurant, as voted for my James Day editor of Eat-the-midlands.co.uk when he was invited [...]

I love trains. Not in the notepad, rucksack, end-of-platformclicking-camera sort of way, but the concept of the golden age of trains – Brief Encounter style, with well-maintained stations and attentive, smart, uniformed, platform staff helping with luggage and directing confused travellers towards trains which arrive, and leave, on time.
Some of my most memorable travels have [...]