Inspiration

St Patrick’s Day, when many a pint is raised in tribute, reminds us what a terrific ingredient beer is in the kitchen. 

The latest trends are filling the catwalks right now at London Fashion Week, but what fashions are filling our plates? We’ve boiled down the top food trends we’ll be getting a taste for in 2016 – take a look.

Sample wines by the glass, bottle and tap at the newly opened Wine Bar at York & Albany. Carved into one of the converted stables of this 1820s coaching in, the rustic Wine Bar is a neighbourhood retreat complete with cobbled stones, wooden features and exposed brickwork.

Want to get lucky in love this Valentine’s Day? Forget the cinema or bar; it might be worth taking your date out for a Valentine’s meal first. Like men, women are much more interested in romance on a full stomach than when they haven’t eaten, according to research published in Appetite[http://www.journals.elsevier.com/appetite/].