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Food Shop selling gourmet ready meals, cakes and puddings in Blackheath, London.

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If you’re planning an event for a charity, club or other community group and need food for 20 people or more, we might be able to help with our 30% Community Kitchen discount.

New mums and dads, you can get 10% off the entire COOK range for six months.

We prepare all of our food by hand, so you can enjoy meals that look and taste as good as those you’d make yourself if you had any time to make them.

We give new parents with our New Parents Discount Card a 10% discount for 6 month to help out a bit.

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Jikoni Restaurant Review: London's Best New Romantic Eatery

Opening on upmarket Blandford Street in Marylebone at the end of last year, the name means ‘kitchen’ in Swahili and it describes itself as a ‘a neighbourhood restaurant’, serving food that draws on Bhogal’s mixed heritage of East African, Middle Eastern, Asian and British.

The big Jikoni theme is homeliness, with a menu offering ‘soothing’ food that serves as a tribute to the wisdom of mother figures who have passed down their kitchen skills.

The food: Colourful English/American comfort food with an Asian twist (or vice versa, hard to tell) – all cooked with a light hand and plenty of unusual spices and flavours.

The Sweet Potato Bhel, £7, was like a vegetable version of a banana sundae – a great long strip of succulent sweet potato, drizzled in creamy, yoghurty sauce and nuts.

For our main course, I moved on to the Lobster Khichdee, £24 – a whole meaty lobster tail on a bed of ‘moilee broth’ – a liquid, soupy bowl of rice flavoured with coconut chutney.

Cook Daily, restaurant review: vegan joint beloved of grime royalty ...

But a new Shoreditch haunt, Cook Daily, bucks the trend – all the food served is 100% vegan.

Boxpark, the shipping container-based Panopticon of brands that juts out at you as soon as you exit Shoreditch High Street station, is the home of Cook Daily (or #cookdaily, to use the Boxpark argot.)

The Hard Bowl comes with sprigs of thyme sitting on the top, and this rounds out the scotch bonnet sauce really well – practice caution with the actual scotch bonnet chilli itself though, even “occasionally putting my fork in it” was enough heat for my comrade.

The trick with this dish is the inclusion of steamed plantain, yams, and wholemeal dumplings – home-cooked Jamaican ‘hard food’ in this street-food style is a brilliant idea, vegan or not – comforting, but with that kick.

If, like us, you’re more than happy to trade 45 minutes of conversation for a bowl of good food, then the only other negative is that the display bananas previously mentioned, combined with the bin outside, means there may be fruit flies to battle with over your meal on a hot day.

Konditor & Cook • Spread Joy Through Cake

Here at Konditor & Cook we’re on a mission to Spread Joy Through Cake!

We create beautiful, handmade cakes using only the finest ingredients, such as free range eggs & natural butter.

We have a wide range of celebration cakes to suit any occasion.

Restaurant review: Murano, London - Telegraph

I interviewed Gordon Ramsay once, and on the subject of female chefs he said women couldn't cook because you wouldn't want to go home to someone who'd had her hand up a pigeon's, er, aperture all day (I'm paraphrasing – he didn't say aperture).

Right, on to my health-giving halibut, a gorgeous piece of fish, dense but delicate, handled with total confidence, man enough to stand up to quite a beefy red-wine sauce (that's 'beefy' as in 'like Desperate Dan'; it did not taste of beef), and surprisingly filling (I think it might be the first time I've ever failed to finish a fillet of fish).

C had the fillet of Scottish beef with a barolo vinaigrette, baked potato purée and gratinated white onions.

The ice-cream didn't really taste of popcorn (pre-pud sorbets, on the other hand, were amazing, especially the basil), the dulce de leche was a bit so-what (you can get it in a tin!)

C's apricot soufflé, on the other hand, blew my mind.

Restaurant review: Trullo | Life and style | The Guardian

Meal for two, including wine and service, £75 Towards the end of our rather lovely dinner at Trullo, the sort of dinner that can restore your faith in the often grisly business of getting food cooked for you by other people in return for money, my companion asked what I didn't like about the place.

The influence of all three places is felt in plates of simple, ingredient-led food, with a generally Italian bent.

Here, where a plate of impeccable handmade pasta costs £4.50, it's peasant food at prices the mere bourgeoisie could afford.

The success of a cannellini bean bruschetta had less to do with the beans themselves, good though they were, than the wonderful olive oil, the crunch of salt and the aromatic green herbs.

Tagliarini was mined with nutty, intense brown shrimps and fine strips of courgette – zucchini in the menu, a minor affectation – and chilli.

Oklava: restaurant review | Jay Rayner | Life and style | The Guardian

It ticks all the boxes, and the young chef is a star in the making, but this new restaurant isn’t quite the finished article Oklava, 74 Luke Street, London EC2 (020 7729 3032).

Meal for two, with drinks and service: £80 If you happened to be terribly smug and decided to prove the irritating depths of your London restaurant knowledge by coming up with a place that ticked every box marked cliché, it would look like Oklava.

Give it a country-specific wine list, and an east London postcode, and there you have it: Oklava, where much-adored chef Selin Kiazim draws on her Turkish-Cypriot heritage to explore the food of Turkey, with a few modern twists.

It is the sound of young people working their hearts out to bring their distinct offering to a London ever hungry for new tastes.

It specialises in pide, topped with the likes of caramelised onions, with walnuts and cheese, as well as the classic tomato with minced lamb (babaji.com.tr) ■ Jacob Kenedy’s semi-fast food-style Italian eatery Vico, on London’s Cambridge Circus, reviewed here in October, has been re-launched.