Social enterprise Migrateful – which supports refugees and asylum seekers by helping them become professional chefs and access employment – is currently crowdfunding to put down roots and transform…

The much-loved Kolossi Grill is being revived for a new generation of diners When the Kolossi Grill on Rosebery Avenue shut up shop last year, it was considered a sad loss – and another sacrifice t…

Clerkenwell boasts some of London’s finest bars and pubs, with a history going back many centuries – but the effects of Covid-19 have had a dramatic and damaging effect on them By Chris Walkers Fro…

Writer, pub aficionado and Clerkenwell old-timer Johnny Homer can’t wait for the area’s excellent pubs to open again. One of the many things to emerge from the Covid-19 pandemic is a realisation th…

Make way for the high-end packed lunch The packed lunch was once considered a lesser meal – indeed, some may remember at school that bringing in sandwiches in a Tupperware container was cause for c…

Among the openings is Be-oom on Exmouth Market While the coronavirus has led to businesses closing, there have also been openings in Clerkenwell. One such business is Be-oom on Exmouth Market, a Ko…

Jeremy Brill looks back as he closes his much loved Exmouth Market café We opened in 1999 solely as a music shop. Many of the small music shops were specialist and only really interested in special…

By Oliver Bennett The coronavirus has not been kind to EC1’s hospitality industry. Some bars and restaurants may unfortunately have to close. But there have been openings too – including Mikkeller …

By Dominika Langová Seven million tonnes. That’s how much food was wasted in the UK in 2015. While most food waste comes from households, business waste still makes up to 13 per cent of this load, …

The Italian shop and restaurant Terroni’s has a secret weapon – a singing waiter by Oliver Bennett Singing waiter Alan Chan at Terroni’s in Clerkenwell During the Euro 2020 football tournament, fan…

Part 3 of my search for all the pubs of the City of London. From the Hoop and Grapes to the Lord Raglan via the Rising Sun, Viaduct and Bishops Finger