Food & Drink
From fast to feast
Our resident food historian on late spring’s bounty
Read MoreFlamboree, Old Street, food review: ‘Contemporary spin on an Alsatian classic’
This new tarte flambée restaurant is a ‘welcome departure’ from Old Street’s more expensive spots
Read MoreAngelina, Dalston, food review: ‘Ambitious vision’
The new Japanese-Italian fusion restaurant is ‘well worth a visit’
Read MoreSweet spring
Our resident food historian on the flavours of the solstice
Read MoreHomerton International Festival of Beer & Bar Snacks returns to The Adam & Eve this Easter
Rockadollar, What The Fattoush and White Men Can’t Jerk provide their take on the humble bar snack
Read MorePalm reading: Gillian Riley on coconuts
Our resident food historian on the well-travelled drupe, cocos nucifera
Read MoreEartH Kitchen, Dalston, food review: ‘Twists on brasserie classics’
The restaurant attached to Hackney’s new arts venue is ‘brimming with potential’
Read MoreAll hands to The Plough
Emma Piggott, one of the team behind the historic Homerton pub’s upcoming relaunch, speaks to the Citizen
Read MoreYard Sale Pizza, Finsbury Park, food review: ‘Simple, playful, full-flavoured’
The restaurant’s latest ‘love-in’ sees musician Loyle Carner craft a Christmas chilli cracker
Read MoreLiving Dangerously with Pomegranates
Our resident food historian on the mortal pleasures of this godly fruit
Read MoreAndi’s Wadadli Kitchen, Stoke Newington, food review: ‘Family and flavour on the menu’
The Great British Menu judge has rebranded her Stoke Newington haunt to reflect her Antiguan roots – and it does not disappoint
Read MoreThe Naturalist, Woodberry Down, food review: ‘The toilets are nice’
Compliments were hard to find after slow service and mediocre food at the borough’s new pub
Read MoreFine Food, Great Taste with Chef Christopher Bower at Well Street Kitchen
Get into a Christmas spirit with Chef Christopher Bower Pop up Nights.
6 course set menu @ £ 35.00
Cut + Grind, Dalston, food review: ‘No-nonsense celebration of all things meat and stodge’
Burger experts skilfully take on the contentious Sunday roast at this ‘proper East End boozer’
Read MoreWorld first as Hackney gets all-weekend vegan market
Sean O’Callaghan, better known as the Fat Gay Vegan, extends his Hackney Downs market to Sundays
Read MoreAll in a pickle: Gillian Riley turns her eye to microbes
Our resident food historian on the ‘busy little critters’ found inside our guts
Read MoreFold, London Fields, restaurant review: ‘A slice of the Big Apple’
A New York-style pizzeria dishing up belly-busting ‘pies’
Read MoreSmashing Kitchen, London Fields, restaurant review: ‘An oasis of calm’
‘It’s refreshing to go back to the essentials and eat vegan food that is actually, well, healthy.’
Read MoreWild courses: Gillian Riley explores the cultural traditions of preparing and eating game
Eskimo diets, venison and sixteenth-century Italian butchery are on the menu this month, courtesy of our beloved food historian
Read MoreStokey Bears, Haggerston, restaurant review: fresh beef and vegan relief
The already established eatery has a new place to call home, where it successfully unites those age-old friends, burger and milkshake
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