We had our inaugural food & wine blogger meetup last night and what a great night we had! A posse of food & wine bloggers gathered at Cantaloupe and ate, drank and some of us got very merry Cantaloupe provided some lovely Brazilian fare and some fine drinks which we very much enjoyed, and […]

We’re all about food, wine & beer here, we can’t get enough of the stuff. Food, wine & beer bloggers are the same! They’re also a sociable lot and so are we at TrustedPlaces, so, we thought it might be nice to get everyone together face-to-face. We’ll be gathering tomorrow and doing what we do […]

Tis the season to be a foodie - there’s a world of food festivals on at the moment, the largest and most diverse being the British Food Fortnight, on right now around the country.
If you’re in Nottingham, you could check out Transition Nottingham’s Urban Harvest Festival where local gardeners and producers gather together to share […]

Londoners are spoiled for choice this weekend - not only is the first London Pirate Festival taking place from today until Sunday but the Southbank Centre Festival of Food is already underway.
Running from until Sunday, it’s billed as a “celebration of food with a range of demonstrations, book signings, free events and activities for […]

Arrr, shiver me timbers, if it isn’t International Talk Like A Pirate Day today - a time to celebrate all things buccaneer. A day to dress like a pirate, act like a pirate and even think like a pirate - and there’s no need to be alone! Avast, me hearties, it’s also day […]

This weekend in London, as part of the Thames Festival, Southwark Bridge is going to be closed to motorists and transformed by a team of artists for an all day feast with dancing and entertainment from 12pm to 10pm - the Feast on the Bridge.
Southwark Bridge will be set with 170 tables and there will […]

The London Restaurant Awards have returned after an absence of two years and for the first time, they included an award for the top 10 restaurants outside London. There were some surprises and for the first time in years, no Gordon Ramsey restaurant received an award. For us at TrustedPlaces, there was the added bonus […]

Breakfast is the meal most likely to be hurried at home, grabbed on the way to work or skipped altogether. It’s a poor show for what’s supposed to be the most important meal of the day, but luckily not everyone treats it with such disregard.
London Review of Breakfasts began in 2005, a blog set […]