Food

THE FELIX PROJECT has a simple job: it collects good food which is surplus to its owners’ requirements and uses it to cook meals which it then delivers to needy families in East London. Most of the food comes from ...

JUST SIX months after it opened its doors to diners from far and wide, the Tapas restaurant in Bushmead, Luton, has been shortlisted for the best restaurant and the best newcomer categories in the British Curry Awards. The restaurant is ...

AMIR KHAN, the former unified Light Welterweight World Champion, and his wife, the global influencer Faryal Makhdoom, were  the guests of honour as The Ottoman Doner opened the doors to a new venture in Redbridge. Huge crowds gathered in Ilford ...

Emdad Rahman THE OTTOMAN DONER, established in December 2018, was crowned “Best Restaurant in South & East London” last night at the ninth British Kebab Awards at a packed Westminster Plaza Hotel.  In their short but very successful journey, the ...

NO CHILD should go hungry! That was the aim of the Island Network as they carried out a mega delivery of food parcels to primary schools on the Isle of Dogs, E14, last weekend. Not only was there a delivery ...

Emdad Rahman THE MASJID AL FALAH and Fatima Foodbank have been working in a coalition, providing essentials to needy, elderly and vulnerable people within Redbridge. The coalition serves the whole community, irrespective of race or religion.  It has received regular referrals from ...

ISSUES WITHIN the hospitality industry as a result of the Covid pandemic were on the agenda when the Bangladeshi Catering Association held a virtual meeting with Kier Starmer MP, Leader of the Opposition, and Lord Bilimoria, founder and Chair of ...

A LARGE INJECTION of fresh fruit and veg is going into the charitable food donation sector, thanks to co-operation between two organisations which both try to redefine how we look at and deal with food resources. StreetBox is the work ...

THERE WAS A light drizzle on the Isle of Dogs yesterday, 27th July – but still the volunteers from the Island Network were out and about, delivering food supplies to elderly and vulnerable residents. Seventeen volunteers braved the unseasonal weather ...

WE’VE BEEN stuck indoors for weeks – and kept out of all those places called the “hospitality industry”. It’s brought on cravings: some for the experience of eating food someone else has cooked, some for branded food – and some ...