Food & Drinks
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Restaurant Review: Indulge in Indian Cuisine at Lotus in Charing Cross
We’re always on the look out for yummy places to eat at the weekends and luckily we found this little gem that’s just opened its doors. Looking for a delicious, authentic Indian cuisine and top treatment to boot? Look no further than Lotus. Why Go? If you are on the search for the holy grail of Indian cuisine, you’ll be glad you walked through Lotus’s doors. Chef-Patron Bhaskar Banerjee has over two decades of culinary experience, working as Chef d’Hotel for exclusive venues such as Marriott, Sheraton, Le Meridian and The Taj Group. For Lotus he’s created a collection of signature dishes which combine traditional cooking techniques with imported Indian spices…
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This Weekend’s Adventure Guide: Parties, Roof Top Bars, Yoga, Taste of London & Picnics
Ah, saying goodbye to the weekend is never easy, but saying hello to a new one most definitely is! Here at Yumi HQ, we never sit in the back seat when it comes to our weekend planning. This weekend’s adventure guide consists of Magic Doors, 6 story high rooftops and a hell lot of yummy food. Want to make the use of your weekend? Then read your way through this weekend’s guide… Before making a visit to Lunar Festival, The Garden Festival and Eastern Electrics, one of the UK’s best kept secrets is making a summer return. After its sold-out event last December, Magic Doors is back! Now if you’re fed…
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Yumi Loves: Clean eating deliveries from Mindful Chef
It’s always a challenge keeping up with new food trends, so at Yumi HQ, we decided to make it that little bit easier for you. Let us introduce you to Mindful Chef, a delivery box business unlike the rest (and we didn’t even mean for that to rhyme…) A couple of weeks ago we stumbled upon this new food delivery service, one which guarantees to take the hassle out of clean eating. With 3 freshly prepared Paleo-inspired meals in each weekly box and average prep time of 15-20 minutes, we couldn’t have been more intrigued. The boys at Mindful Chef let us in on their secret: “You won’t find any pasta, white/brown rice or white potatoes in…
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Best Cocktail Recipes for Easter
Easter’s this weekend and there’s nothing better than a cocktail or three to wash down all those choccy bunnies we’ll be chomping on. We’ve got a number of awesome concoctions to make with chocolate bitters by The Bitter Truth Range of Bitters and Liqueurs. Cocktail bitters are becoming more and more popular with avid cocktail makers. Like adding salt and pepper to a meal, the equivalent in the drinks world is a dash of cocktail bitters, made from aromatic oils, herbs and spices. We’re pretty sure you’ll be addicted to the stuff by the end of Easter. Cue the Easter-themed recipes: SPRING IS IN THE AIR 50 ml Lanique 20 ml Lemon Juice…
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Adventure Guide: Easter Special
Looking for ideas to do this Easter weekend? Well we’ve pulled together 5 ideas every Easter weekend needs. Chocolate at the ready? Yes? Well sit back relax and take a read through our ‘Egg-venture’ Guide for this coming weekend. 1. Easter Cocktail Crawl – Regent Street, London. Join in the alternative adult Easter ‘cocktail’ hunt this weekend. Six restaurants surrounding London’s Regent street have joined forces to bring you bespoke Easter themed cocktails. Momo and Mash, Gordon Ramsay’s Heddon Street Kitchen, Brasserie Zedel, Frescobaldi and Cafe Royal. Hunting starts from now until Sunday 12th April… what are you waiting for? 2. 500 Years of Hampton Court Palace – Surrey, Greater London. Hampton Court Palace…
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How to: The Ultimate Hot Cross Bun Recipe
From the owner of Frankonia Bakery, Birgit Gunz, this is the only recipe you’ll need to get you through Easter. Fresh, spongy and totally moreish, you’ll want to munch on seconds…thirds…fourths… We don’t mind if we do. Here’s the how-to: Buns: 700g unbleached white bread flour 115g sugar 5g salt (1 teaspoon) 15g ground mixed spice (3 teaspoons) 113g butter (room temperature) 70g fresh yeast 440g dried fruit such as sultanas, currants, mixed peel 1 large egg 300ml lukewarm water Cross Mixture: 65 g flour 20g sugar 60 ml water Glaze: 1 large egg and a little water Method: · Before you do anything else, weigh your dried fruit and soak…
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This Weekend’s Adventure Guide
Now we’ve said good-bye to the 2015 eclipse, we can all celebrate that the world is still here and we haven’t all turned into hairy werewolfs, thank god! So let’s celebrate as it’s only the best day of the week… FRI-YAY-DAY! Got Plans this weekend? … No?… Well now you do… One. ‘Hawker House’. Set every Friday and Saturday evening for 10 weekends. This three story street feast is something each and every foodie needs to discover. Hawker house hosts some of the most delicious mouth watering food venders we have in and around London. Yum Bun, breddos Tacos, Smokestak, Bobs Lobster, Born & Raised, Bad Brownie and more! Feeling…
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Festival Guide
Yess! Now that Dry January’s over, and we no longer have to see blue. We can now all stand and watch the countdown for summer to begin… Ok, ok maybe I’m getting a little too excited and I didn’t mean to miss out on Spring, but I can’t be the only one jumping up and down at all the Festival announced? No… I thought not. If you’re like the select few here at Yumi HQ, then you’ll have your festival plans already written up (and probably laminated…) but if your more of the laid back type then stay laid back, because here at Yumi HQ we’ve done the hard bit…
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A yummy Cointreau cocktail recipe for parties
We had our SS15 launch party last week and not only did we get to shmooze with the lovely Lilah Parsons, we also got to try her favourite Cointreau cocktail recipe, the Cointreau Fizz. Chic and easy, it’s the perfect weekend party go-to. But remember, always drink responsibly… Here’s how to make this delish cocktail: The Cointreau Fizz Ingredients: 50ml Cointreau 15ml fresh lime juice 50ml sparkling water Method: In a shaker glass: add Cointreau and lime juice – fill with ice. Shake until the metal tin is frosted. Strain into the glass over ice, and top up with sparkling water. Garnish with a sprig of orange blossom or some mint leaves. Et…