Steak sales soar by 40% during lockdown as diners try to recreate restaurant meals in their own home

Steak sales soar by 40% during lockdown as diners try to recreate restaurant meals in their own homes – with demand for gourmet salt, herbs and spices all rocketing Britons cooked half a billion more meals at home from scratch during lockdown Shoppers bought 24 million more herbs, spices and seasoning products   Top ingredients were … Read more

Richard Caring’s Mayfair restaurant welcomes back diners with curfew-busting express menu

Richard Caring’s Mayfair restaurant welcomes back diners with curfew-busting express menu and a jab at Boris Johnson – after the businessman blasted the PM’s new Covid rules By Danyal Hussain For Mailonline Published: 22:30 BST, 1 October 2020 | Updated: 22:34 BST, 1 October 2020 Richard Caring’s iconic Mayfair restaurant reopened this evening with a … Read more

Loud restaurants put a bad taste in diners’ mouths, say experts who found some sounds spoil meals

How much you enjoy your food at a restaurant depends on the venue’s noise, a study reveals. Acoustic experts at Flinders University investigated a patron’s experience under different background noise types and levels. Relaxing music at 30 decibels increased the liking of food by 60 percent, but playing it at 40 decibels decreased it to … Read more

Diners pack into busy Soho streets to enjoy a late night out

Hundreds of diners packed into the busy streets of London last night to enjoy an evening out before the Government imposes tough new restrictions to halt a second wave of coronavirus in England.  Boris Johnson will today set out a raft of measures designed to clampdown on the disease, including imposing a 10pm curfew on all pubs, … Read more

Sea-gulp! Thieving bird wolfs down a leftover sausage in one go in front of startled diners 

Sea-gulp! Thieving bird wolfs down a leftover sausage in one go in front of startled diners Footage of the crafty bird pinching the food was filmed in Cornwall  In one swift movement the bird devours the sausage as it stands on the table  The animal takes no notice of the eatery packed with customers as … Read more

Dominatrix and her ‘slave’ banned from gastropub after spanking session in full view of diners

Dominatrix and her suspenders-clad ‘slave’ are banned from gastropub after sadomasochistic spanking session in full view of diners A dominatrix and ‘slave’ have been barred from The Mill in Ulverston, Cumbria The pair put on a sadomasochistic display on the terrace in front of customers  Some customers who witnessed the spanking session shared a video online  … Read more

Protesters who yelled at diners says the confrontation sparked after men shouted ‘Blue Lives Matter’

The protesters who were captured on video yelling at outdoor restaurant patrons said the footage was one-sided and the confrontation sparked after a group of men shouted ‘Blue Live Matter’ and one man swung a bike. The explanation from demonstrators present during Saturday’s rally in Rochester, New York, comes after footage of the incident was … Read more

Outrageous moment BLM protesters scream ‘f**k the white people’ at elderly outdoor diners

Black Lives Matter protesters screamed in the face of white elderly outdoor diners during protests in Pittsburgh on Saturday, disturbing new video shows.  Cellphone footage shows the crowd taking over the outdoor dining space with one person even approaching the older couple’s table before drinking their beer in front of them; another smashed a glass … Read more

Protesters cause diners to flee in panic as they ‘shut down’ a restaurant in Rochester

A large group of demonstrators caused diners to flee when they surrounded a New York restaurant during a protest over the death of Daniel Prude in New York.     More than 1,000 anti-racism supporters gathered together in downtown Rochester, where 29-year-old Prude suffocated to death while in police custody. The huge crowd surrounded a restaurant where … Read more

Eat Out to Help Out ends TODAY as Rishi Sunak urges diners to keep heading out

Eat Out to Help Out ends TODAY after 64 million meals were ordered in August as Rishi Sunak urges diners to keep heading out amid call for scheme to be extended in hard-hit city centres Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme is ending today Mr Sunak said that more than 64 million … Read more