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06 Feb 2012
Nestlè Professional & thefoodpeople celebrate the best of British with series of trend inspired recipes that help chefs implement the latest food trends across their menu using the quality stocks from CHEF® .
Read more03 Feb 2012
Peruvian food and drink has a long and distinguished history and for many has come to be considered one of the finest and fastest growing international gastronomic movements today. In Spring 2012 chef Virgilio Martinez and the Gonzalez brothers, will open LIMA in Fitzrovia, London, a new restaurant integrating traditional and contemporary Peruvian cuisine.
Read more31 Jan 2012
When you think of street food, do you think of greasy burgers from a battered van or Goan seafood from a modern trailer? We’re witnessing a street food revolution and thefoodpeople have been keeping a close eye on this global food trend.
Read more31 Jan 2012
Toffee Break Desserts, a suburban Chicago-based artisanal toffee maker, was recently awarded Best Toffee in America by The Taste Awards.
Read more29 Jan 2012
A collaboration between celebrated chef and food writer Mark Hix and the Thompson Hotel Group, sees the opening of Hix Belgravia and the second of Hix's award-winning Mark's Bar opening on 1st February.
Read more26 Jan 2012
Due to open any day soon, Donostia will serve food in the style of the Basque region in Northern Spain.
Read more23 Jan 2012
Located in the heart of London's West End on Whitfield Street, Dabbous is the first solo venture for Ollie Dabbous, laterly of Michelin-starred Texture and one of a handful of young chefs Restaurant magazine recently hailed as shaping the UK culinary scene, and award-winning mixologist Oskar Kinberg, formerly bar manager of the Cuckoo Club.
Read more20 Jan 2012
Award-winning Restaurant Mark Greenaway, who has received acclamation nationwide since the opening of his first signature restaurant in Edinburgh last year, is currently running a promotional campaign inviting diners to eat what they want and pay what they want to prove that fine-dining doesn't have to be expensive.
Read more17 Jan 2012
Seniors in Thornton, Lancashire, has been named the best British fish and chip shop after battering its rivals in the National Fish and Chip Awards 2012 today.
Read more14 Jan 2012
One of Belgium's oldest and best loved restaurants, Chez Leon, famed for its exceptional moules frites and hearty Flemish classics, has chosen London for the setting of their first international branch of its Leon de Bruxelles franchise, opening on 17th January. They're going for a 'soft' opening between 17th and 20th January, when all food will have 50% off.
Read more12 Jan 2012
Tomorrow sees the opening of The Lounge at ODEON Whiteleys London - a boutique take on cinema-going. Rowley Leigh will be partnering with The Lounge as Consultant Chef, developing a menu that offers a playful, grown-up take on classic film food to be ordered and enjoyed from the comfort of your seat.
Read more10 Jan 2012
The restaurant world is reeling from the shocking news that Charlie Trotter is to close his Chicago restaurant after 25 years.
Read more08 Jan 2012
Typically a greasy, salty snack sold in pubs and called pork scratching, Mr Trotters Pork Crackling take scratchings to a whole new level.
Read more04 Jan 2012
thefoodpeople have released their trend setting cuisine and influencing cuisines for 2012. Each year we take a look at 20 global cuisines and rank them according to their trend setting influence, in addition we take a look at the chefs that will be influencing the gastronomic stage.
Read more23 Dec 2011
Pounding the pavements in the bitter cold, looking for those unique and innovative products are all part of the course at this time of the year for thefoodpeople. In 2011 the themes range from stark white to flamboyant feathers and pastel tones to natural and paired back, so something for everyone. We’ve seen some truly innovative and interesting products all helping consumer to either make Christmas easy, create a wow or surprise or just to share festive cheer. We couldn’t possible list them all but a few of our favourites that include a Turkey Brining kit, Glittering Marmalade and a Gingerbread House kit.
Read more23 Dec 2011
Rather than sending Christmas cards to all of our many hundreds of subscribers and contacts across the food industry, we feel that there are some charitable groups that would benefit more from the financial support than our subscribers and contacts would benefit from the card, so that’s what we have done again this year! We have a made a charitable donation to the following charities who are all dear to our hearts. The…
Read more16 Dec 2011
thefoodpeople have released the 2012 food service trends predictions to subscribers. A few of the trends that we can expect to see in everything from fast food to casual dining and fine dining include fire cooking, stripped out service, agro tourism, chef farmers, wild harvest, less heat for longer, pure molecular regress and neo-global foods.
Read more10 Dec 2011
Charles Banks, Director & Co-founder of thefoodpeople was conference chair as well as a speaker at Taste Trends 2011 held at Leatherhead Food Research on 8th December 2011.
Read more10 Dec 2011
thefoodpeople have just released the 2012 food trends predictions to subscribers. For 2012 they've been broken down into food service and retail trends as well as trend setting cuisnes. Some of the trends that we expect to evolve in 2012 include a renewed focus on value for money, fun rather than fine dining, even more informality, twisted classics, pound stretch pride, producer focus, chefs on the move, well being awareness and British pride.
Read more30 Nov 2011
After leaving Sydney last year, Bill Granger opened his new London venture, Granger & Co on Westbourne Grove, London, we went along for coffee and cake to check out this eagerly anticipated opening.
Read more28 Nov 2011
Jamie opened his much anticipated new British concept Union Jacks last week, thefoodpeople were amongst the first to sample the delights during week one.
Read more22 Nov 2011
Butcher & the Burger is like nothing you've seen before…at least not under one roof. While a neighbourhood burger counter at heart, It’s also a dash of old fashion butcher shop with a pinch of culinary artistry mixed in.
Read more21 Nov 2011
With a preference for British sourced, organic, authentic produce our menus and dishes have been carefully, and lovingly, designed to tempt, entice and satisfy.
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