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In this column, Ananda Pellerin and Neil Wissink uncover the secret pleasures of the gastronome

  • Foraging Display

    The Hunger | Copenhagen: Mad Foodcamp

    A two day symposium dedicated to vegetables, held in a dimly-lit marquee on a muddy, ex-military island in the Copenhagen harbour – it hardly sounds like the type of thing you would plan for a holiday.

  • Lamb's Belly with Courgette

    The Hunger | Nuno Mendes at The Corner Room

    There seems to be no stopping chef Nuno Mendes. Shortly after gaining a Michelin star in the first year of opening Viajante, he has now launched The Corner Room, also in the Town Hall Hotel at Bethnal Green.

  • Club Gascon Clams and Mussels

    The Hunger | Bastille Day at Baranis and Pascal Aussignac at Club Gascon

    Club Gascon has been one of London's leading French restaurants since it opened 11 years ago across from Smithfield market.

  • The Ginger Pig meat locker

    The Hunger | The Ginger Pig meat book

    Much to our delight, the highly anticipated The Ginger Pig Meat Book was launched last week with an appropriately brawny spread at Daunt Books on Marylebone High Street – including some knock-out honeyed ham, sausage rolls and pies.

  • Radishes and black sesame

    The Hunger | Frankie Goes To Peckham

    Frank's Campari Bar has been sitting atop the roof of a disused multistory car park in Peckham for several years. This week for two nights they welcome London's most exciting cooking collective, the Young Turks...

  • Richard Vine’s kitchen garden at Lucknam Park

    The Hunger | Richard Vine’s kitchen garden at Lucknam Park

    Horticulturalist Richard Vine has established a new Eden in the already idyllic grounds of Lucknam Park Hotel and Spa. Within six weeks the organic kitchen garden he planted in April started providing fresh vegetables, fruit, herbs and...

  • 88* interior

    The Hunger | Bistrotheque's 88*

    1988 is the year to re-live this week, with east London’s Bistrotheque setting up shop in Canary Wharf as part of the Create Festival’s Restaurants in Residency series. Situated in a soon-to-be demolished office building – one of the first...

  • Polpetto's Chickpea Bruschetta

    The Hunger | Venetian London: Ombra, Polpetto

    This week, The Hunger visits to Venetian-inspired establishments. Restaurant Ombra opened just under a month ago at One Vyner Street, on the edge of east London's gallery district and Polpetto, above The French House in Soho and an smaller...

  • Club Gascon's black salmon celeriac remoulade

    The Hunger | René Redzepi at Taste of London

    London’s annual food and restaurant festival in Regent’s Park was opened this year by Noma’s René Redzepi, one of the world’s most talked about chefs.

  • Yoji Tokuyoshi creates This is Not Truffle

    The Hunger | Yoji Tokuyoshi at The Loft Project

    After studying Italian cooking in Japan, Yoji Tokuyoshi furthered his education in Italy but then struggled to find a kitchen position. Down to his last euros and waiting on a return flight to Tokyo at Milan Malpensa airport, he read about...

  • Alexandre Guarneri in the Androuet cheese locker.

    The Hunger | Androuet/Paxton & Whitfield fine cheeses

    Buy less more often. This is the advice given by Alexandre Guarneri, cheesemonger and Director at Androuet fine cheese shop and cheese & wine bar in Old Spitalfields market.

  • Hot cross buns at St. JOHN

    The Hunger | Easter Treats: Paul A. Young & St. JOHN

    When chocolatier Paul A. Young shows us his basement kitchen in Camden Passage, it’s hard to imagine that every piece of chocolate ever made for the shop upstairs, and the branch at the Royal Exchange (millions, no doubt) has come out of...