Showing posts with label lunch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lunch. Show all posts

Friday 1 March 2024

In time for Mother's Day: Introducing the Della Vite Paloma Bellini, in collaboration with Ixchel

Ixchel, named for the Mayan goddess of the moon, is a beautiful Mexican restaurant on the King's Road, Chelsea. 

The talented team has created the Della Vite Paloma Bellini in honour of the weekend and all the women you choose to spend it with. 

This enticing cocktail is an exciting, zingy mix of the finest Tequila Blanco, fresh lime juice, homemade sugar syrup, zesty grapefruit soda and the smooth, extra bubbly and decadent Della Vite Superiore Prosecco, an award-winning Vegan premium fizz founded by Poppy, Chloe and Cara Delevingne. A delicate dusting of hibiscus salt on the glass adds floral and citrus notes to the finish. Salud!

Lunchtime diners will be offered a complimentary Della Vite Paloma Bellini with their meal. Head Chef Ximena Gayossa Gonzalez has crafted an exquisite menu with 'platos' designed to be shared. 

Why not try a Paloma Bellini alongside the Crab Macha Tostada, Grilled sea bass in pipián verde and sage butter and what is said to be quite possibly the best guacamole in London. Plus - prosecco AND tequila in the same cocktail? Sounds wonderful for all mums!

Friday 8th-Sunday 10th March; Ixchel, 33H King's Road,London, SW3 4LX. 

Visit: https://www.instagram.com/della_vite/?hl=en-gb 

Thursday 28 September 2023

Boutique lunch raises almost £3,000 for Francis House Children's Hospice

“Francis House is an amazing charity, and we were proud to be sponsors of the Boutique Lunch.

A glamorous Boutique Lunch at Gusto Italian Restaurant in Cheadle Hulme, Cheshire, raised £2,700 for the Francis House Children’s Hospice.

The event was sponsored by Sinclair Law and supported by ladies’ fashion retailer Flair Boutique UK.

Lucy Hart, director of Sinclair Law based in Wilmslow said: “Francis House is an amazing charity, and we were proud to be sponsors of the Boutique Lunch. A fabulous afternoon was experienced by all in support of this incredible charity.”

A variety of stalls from chocolates to handbags, fashion to skincare were on hand for guests to browse including Jewellery from Deanne, Beehive Boutique Manchester, Tropics with Shirlie, Henshaw’s House of Cocoa, and Cheshire Home Fragrance, all adding to the relaxed and enjoyable atmosphere.

Based in Didsbury, Francis House supports over 600 families from across the Greater Manchester and Cheshire region with respite care, homecare, sibling support, emotional and bereavement support.

At the lunch, guests enjoyed a special two-course lunch and a fashion show of new season styles by Flair Boutique UK.

Singer Andrew Alty performed beautiful ballads and had everyone up on their feet dancing to Sweet Caroline.

Guest Victoria Young commented on the event: “I had a fantastic afternoon catching up with networking colleagues and raising money for such a worthy cause, it was a lovely afternoon with beautiful food and flowing drinks and even had chance to do a little retail therapy from the stalls that were showcasing their lovely items – a great afternoon and highly recommend, we can’t wait for the next one.”

Raffle prizes included a handbag, beauty hamper, chocolate hamper and a diamond necklace donated by Beaverbrooks.

Lucy Thompson, events manager of Francis House said: “A big thank you to all the ladies that came along and supported our Boutique Lunch. The atmosphere was great, and everyone was so generous with their donations.’’

Tickets are now on sale for the Francis House ‘Let’s Party’ Christmas Ball at the Concorde Conference Centre on December 1. To book for this unmissable event visit www.francishouse.org.uk/christmas-ball

Thursday 31 August 2023

Back to school: Tasty lunchbox fillers for under £2

Making the back-to-school shop more affordable, Asda has lunchbox filler options for under £2.

From tasty sandwich fillings to snackable light bites to keep energy levels up, Asda’s fresh and delicious options are nutritious and affordable, without any compromise on taste, too.

Starting with the staple sandwich, shoppers can bag a loaf of Just Essentials Whole Meal Bread for just 45p or Asda Soft White Medium Bread for 75p. Paired with any of the mix and match cooked sliced meats, and on a 2 for £3.50 offer, shoppers can tailor their tastes to create something affordable and flavoursome.

The 2 for £3.50 offer has in excess of 20 options; including customer favourites Asda Oven Baked Dry Cured Ham (£2.25), Asda Sliced Chargrill Style Chicken Breast (£2.25) and Asda Wafer Thin Honey Roast Turkey Slices (£2.15). With this breadth of options shoppers can always try something new, keeping kids excited about what’s for their lunch.

Perfect size for a lunchbox and to keep energy levels high between lessons or-after school clubs, Asda has a 3 for £1.20 offer on packs of fruit, including ASDA Grapes (50p), ASDA Crisp and Juicy Watermelon Slices (50p) and ASDA Crisp and Juicy Apple Slices (50p).

For cheese lovers, Asda has nifty offers on Mini Babybel Light Cheese Snack (£1.50 for pack of six) and Dairylea Cheese Triangles (£1.25 for pack of eight). For the savoury snackers, the ASDA Southern Fried Chicken Bites (89p) and ASDA Caramel Rice Cakes (£1.10) are the perfect pick-me-up.

No lunchbox is complete without a sweet treat and there are plenty of fruity options available, including Hartley's Strawberry Flavour Jelly Pots (£2 for pack of six) and Soreen Strawberry Lunchbox Loaves Snack Bars (£1.75 for five).

With many of the lunchbox filers being included in Asda’s recent price drop of over 400 products, Asda’s offers mean the back-to-school shop doesn’t have to break the bank. Shoppers can shop the full range of Back to School supplies here https://groceries.asda.com/cat/back-to-school/1215685931218

www.asda.com

Thursday 17 August 2023

Sushi beats classic sandwich as it becomes UK’s fastest growing premium lunchtime treat

Japanese rice dish sushi is now so popular with Brits, it's become the UK’s fastest growing premium lunchtime main.

Demand at Tesco has grown so much sushi has replaced the smoked salmon sandwich as Britain’s favourite premium lunchtime treat. 

Since the beginning of the year when Tesco launched its £5 Clubcard Meal Deal, sushi sales have rocketed by a staggering  90%.

Included in the Premium deal, which offers Tesco shoppers a main, a drink and a snack, are a choice of sushi boxes, poke bowls and other pan-Asian delights like gyozas and bao buns.

As a result of the extra demand the supermarket now sells an amazing 21 million packs of sushi a year.  

Tesco Food to Go Buying Manager Emma Williams said:  “It's the first time we’ve ever put premium quality sushi in one of our meal deals and this has had a really significant effect in making it more affordable and accessible for Tesco shoppers.

"Demand's also been boosted by people returning to work and it’s led to restaurant group YO! opening more fresh sushi counters in our stores across the UK.  

“Sushi has never been more popular and for a salmon poke bowl to  overtake our previous top-selling premium lunchtime staple, the smoked salmon sandwich, really underlines that.”

One of the main reasons for sushi’s growing popularity is that it's a really non-fuss snack that can really be eaten on the go.

As part of the deal, shoppers can pick up well-known brands including Itsu, YO! Sushi and Pollen & Grace, plus a wide range of Tesco Finest mains.

The Tesco Premium Meal Deal is available now in 1,100 stores, offering a range of quality options to suit all tastes for just £5 per head with a Clubcard, or £5.50 without.

FOOD FACT:- The concept of sushi began about 500 BC when south-east  Asians found that raw fish could be preserved by placing it between vinegared rice.

The process is believed to have arrived in Japan in about 600 AD and quickly grew in popularity as a delicacy.

Modern sushi, as we know it, originated in the 19th century when a street food stall holder in the Japanese city of Edo, now Tokyo, shaped vinegared rice with his hands and the added a slice of raw fish on the top.

www.tesco.com


Thursday 11 August 2011

Mint Hotel Creates The 45-Minute Lunch Hour for a Tenner!


Mint Hotel, the award-winning city-centre hotel brand, is celebrating summer in novel style by launching a 45-minute express lunch, available from just £10 per person, across the group’s City Café restaurants.

For that amazing price guests get to enjoy two-courses from the restaurant’s Market Menu coupled with a drink, including any house wine, spirit and mixer, beer or soft drink – all of which the group pledges to serve within 45 minutes.

The £10 ‘Fresh this Summer’ offer is available in City Café restaurants at Mint Hotel Glasgow, Mint Hotel Birmingham, Mint Hotel Bristol, Mint Hotel Leeds and Mint Hotel Manchester. In London, the offer is priced at £10.95 at Mint Hotel Westminster and £12.50 at the new Mint Hotel Tower of London. At Mint Hotel Amsterdam, which opened its doors in June, the express lunch offer is priced at just €15.00.

Guests choosing the ‘Fresh this Summer’ offer will also be handed a City Café loyalty card, entitling them to receive a complimentary two-course lunch (exclusive of drinks), after five return visits to the restaurants – a great excuse to keep coming back. What’s more, the loyalty card can be used through across all City Café restaurants in the Mint Hotel group, and lasts until 30 March 2012.

The fantastic lunch offers are available between 12–1 pm weekdays, and 12.30–3pm on Saturdays, with the promotion lasting until 3 September 2011.

City Café offers diners a modern European cuisine experience with the Market Menu focusing on locally sourced, seasonal produce, all created under the careful guidance of group executive chef Scott Macdonald. Summer dishes in the offer include breast of chicken with roast pumpkin, curly kale and caper jus, or fillet of mackerel, steamed bok choi, spring onion, red watercress, grapefruit and ginger reduction. As City Café’s Market Menus change weekly, regular diners can expect new dishes based on the freshest seasonal, regional ingredients throughout the summer.

The offer guarantees that guests will be wined and dined within a 45-minute time window – ideal for busy city workers, locals and visitors wishing to sample the delicious cuisine of City Café. Mint’s 45-minute pledge does not apply to diners who wish to add a third course to their meal, available for an additional £3.

Mint Hotels is dedicated to creating fresh, contemporary hotels thoughtfully designed to blend with each property’s cityscape. The group has eight properties - seven in the UK and its first international location in Amsterdam. People are put at the heart of each Mint hotel, with the customer truly coming first and Mint’s staff empowered to deliver memorable service.

Please visit www.minthotel.com/freshsummer for further information.


(EDITOR: Right! The That's Food and Drink team know where WE are going to be dining when we next visit the big city!)

Wednesday 13 April 2011

Workers fork out over £1,000 a year on lunch despite credit crunch


A survey of office workers across the UK has revealed that more than a third buy sandwiches in their lunch hour, rather than making their own.

On average workers are spending around £3 on sandwiches every day, with some spending up to £5. Around half of those surveyed say they sometimes buy a drink with their sandwich, adding another one or two pounds to the cost.

The research called ‘Lunch in the Credit Crunch’, on behalf of www.nigelsecostore.com, also revealed that three times the number of women make their own sandwiches compared to men.

Nigel Berman, founder of www.nigelsecostore.com, said: “With around 240 working days in the year, lunchtimes are making a huge dent in salaries and some people are spending over £25 a week. But because people are spending a small amount every day, they don’t think about the cost over the year and it can really add up. The research shows that the average spend is around a staggering £1,000 a year.”

Just over 66 per cent of the workers surveyed claimed that they always make their own sandwiches.

Of those who buy sandwiches, 25 per cent said they always recycle the packaging, with 54 per cent sometimes recycling. The remainder, around 20 per cent, never recycle the packaging.

The survey also asked people what would encourage them to make their own. Around 20 per cent said they could be persuaded if there was a large cost saving and a similar number said they would make their own if they had a way of transporting them easily. Interestingly, just over 24 per cent said they would make their own if they had some good ideas for fillings.

Making your own sandwiches can help the planet, especially if you re-use the foil or cling film. There are also solutions like a reusable sandwich wrapper called Wrap n Mat which costs £4.99 from www.nigelsecostore.com. The Wrap n Mat helps commuters transport sandwiches easily and means you don’t have to use foil or plastic. It is washable and the cotton wrapper acts as a placemat.

According to health experts, as well as helping to save hundreds of pounds a year, home-made sandwiches can be better for you.

Kate Arnold, of Kate Arnold Nutrition, explains: “Bought sandwiches can be pricey, and you have no control as to what goes in them. They are often very high in fat and calories so making your own at home can be so much better for your health and your purse.

“The issue I have with bought sandwiches is they are all bread and no filling. By making them at home you can reduce the carbohydrate, choose your own bread and create a high-protein filling for less than half the price of a shop-bought sandwich.

“Choose a good-quality wholemeal bread, or whatever suits you, and really fill it with protein. Leave the mayonnaise and focus on high-protein foods as a salad sandwich will not fill you up.”

Kate has come with ten fillings to inspire people to make their own:

- Hummus and cucumber
- Turkey, avocado, tomato, sprouting seeds
- Avocado, smoked chicken and cranberry sauce
- Mozzarella and sun dried tomatoes
- Mash a can of red salmon in a bowl with freshly chopped dill, 2 tbsps live yoghurt and pepper.
- Generous slices of honey roast ham with mustard.
- Tofu and tahini: (Crumble tofu and mix brown miso, tahini, minced onion, carrot and sunflower seeds)
- Goats cheese and char-grilled pepper with sweet chilli sauce and leaves
- Turkey with low fat mayonnaise and cranberry sauce with crushed walnuts
- For a fresh undressed summer sandwich try: Grated carrot, beansprouts, grated apple, sesame seeds, chopped walnut, chopped baby spinach, low-fat cottage cheese, chopped red onion and chopped parsley.

According to The British Council, British people eat 2.8 billion sandwiches each year but the humble sandwich started life as a snack for England’s super-rich.

In 1762 the first written record of the word ‘sandwich’ appeared in the diary of the English author Edward Gibbons. He remembered wealthy men eating ‘a bit of cold meat’ between pieces of bread.

The snack was named after the Fourth Earl of Sandwich. He was a frequent gambler and was so addicted to gambling that he would often refuse to stop even to eat meals. To avoid having to stop gambling, the Earl of Sandwich asked for a meal consisting of beef between two slices of bread so that he always had one hand free to play cards and gamble and his hands wouldn’t become dirty from the meat.

When other men saw what he was eating, they began to order ‘the same as Sandwich’ - so the sandwich was born. It quickly became popular and widespread as a quick and easy food to eat.

Sandwiches have become so popular in the UK that there is even a British Sandwich Week. It’s being held from 15th to 21st May 2011.

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(EDITOR: There's also soup that you can make at home and take in a flask, or for those on a diet a diet shake can make a handy lunch, too)