This is Winchester’s home to Lebanese hospitality. Serving traditional cuisine with authentic flavours crafted raw ingredients, paired with Lebanese wines and beers served with genuine heartfelt hospitality. Owner Mohamed Elshabrawy is the signature to its authenticity. After crafting his Lebanese skills working at a selection of Egyptian and Lebanese restaurants in London, in August 2023…

Is there a connection between Welsh coal dust and premium chocolate? The immediate obvious answer would be no. That preconceived notion changed after my cousin visited the Big Pit National Coal Museum Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales. For a century from 1880 to 1980 it was a working coal mine where they mined high grade type of…

Dry crisp white wines are the perfect taste match to pair with fish and seafood. Rick Stein has the taste for the best fish and seafood. That can be seen in his own label Blanc de Blancs Champagne which he descibes as being “a blanc de blancs of real weight and quality,”. A chef knows…

To the average burger eater, the fish knife is seen as a decorative piece of dining excentricity. In the early days it was made of silver to avoid a metallic taste from the pairing of lemon and fish. Its held between the thumb and first two fingers, just like  a pencil, to fillet the fish,…

A half dozen freshly shuked oysters, presented on a bed of crushed ice, is the perfect summer starter indulgence. The thought of cooking that which what tastes so delicious raw may seem unthinkable. But then in the cold of winter that conviction could change. Oysters Kirkpatrick made that case in favour of winter cooking. Freshly…