Barbecue

• The best BBQ boxes being delivered

  

  Planning a barbecue this summer? We've rounded up some of the best BBQ boxes being delivered to your door - all you've got to do is fire up the grill. 

• Meatopia, the live-fire cooking festival is back for 2024 - here's the line-up

  

  It's one of London's most popular food festivals and it's back at Tobacco Dock for its 11th year - Meatopia 2024 is on the way. 

  As ever, the festival, first launched by its founder Josh Ozersky, is mainly all about live-fire cooking, alongside a big focus on sustainability. They always manage to get an incredibly impressive line-up for the festival and here's a

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• DIY dishes - London's restaurants where you're the chef

  

  Control freaks (and we mean that in the best possible way) are well served by a range of London restaurants and bars putting you in the chef or bartender’s role. Whether you’re flipping steak on your own tabletop grill or pouring your own cocktail, here’s where to enjoy the DIY experience in London.

• The Korean Cowgirl picks Camden for its mashup of Korean fried chicken and Texan BBQ

  

  A new Camden restaurant is aiming to bring the best of Texas BBQ and Korean fried chicken to the canalside at Camden. The Korean Cowgirl first opened down in Faversham in Kent, where it made a big deal of its passion for Korean flavours and the low and slow Texan BBQ style.

  So their menu features items like USDA Texas-style brisket & Korean BBQ sausage, smoked overnight for 15 hours alongside more mashed-up

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• Mayfair gets a new Parisian bar Below des Prés

  

  If you’re hankering for an intimate little cocktail bar that reminds you of St-Germain-des-Prés but without the Eurostar queues, well we have just the thing. But first, let us remind you of the Michelin-starred French version of Jamie Oliver. What? Well, that’s how we referenced chef Cyril Lignac, when we told you about his new Mayfair restaurant Bar des Prés that ...

• Big Easy head to Westfield Stratford with their 'cue and lobsters

  

  After a quiet year or so, it does seem like life is heading back to Stratford with a few new openings. Hard on the heels of the arrival of Haugen, comes Big Easy who are opening their fourth London restaurant over at Westfield.

  As to what you can expect, well it's a formula they're not

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• The Bourbon serves up hard liquor and BBQ in Bow

  

  A few streets away from Victoria Park, there's a new dive bar to check out. The Bourbon has taken over the old Kisses from Nonna site and turned it from Italian to American.

  As the name suggests, bourbon is the drink to order here with more than 40 on offer including rare, vintage bourbons such as the 23-year-old Pappy Van Winkle. There are American beers like Pabst Blue Ribbon too, along with cocktails and wine.

  In the

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• Meatopia London is back for 2021 with the line-up headliners revealed

  

  Updated 1/7/21 with headliners

  As sure a sign that London is returning to some kind of normality is the revival of some of the city's food festivals. So we're happy to report that, after a fallow year, Meatopia is coming back in September.

  The meat and fire festival is returning to Tobacco Dock for what will be its eighth year of showcasing great chefs, loads of 'cue, along with a fair amount of

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• Pitt Cue Co are back with a 10th birthday pork slider kit and more

  

  Most of us celebrate our birthdays with a night out. But in restaurant world it's a little different, so the folk at Pitt Cue Co are launching a restaurant kit instead.

  The BBQ guys may not have a restaurant in London anymore, but this year marks a decade since they first hit the London food scene with their trailer under Hungerford Bridge. Back then, we ...

• Test Driving Berenjak Bazaar - next level kebabs and mezze for your summer BBQ

  

  Looking to give your summer BBQs a bit of a boost? We took a browse through the online store from Berenjak to try a few of their kits out.

• Cue Point launch a BBQ drive-thru in Chiswick

  

  There's one returning innovation that has come about because of various lockdowns that we're very pleased to see back - the drive-thru. We've already seen a MEATliquor drive-thru just a few weeks back and now Cue Point is getting in on the action too.

  Cue Point have been delivering great BBQ throughout lockdown (...

• St. Felix Place in Borough is London's newest outdoor eating and drinking space

  

  From the team behind Flat Iron Square and Goods Way comes their latest alfresco project - featuring beer, BBQ, pizza and music

• Test Driving Blacklock at Home - and this time it's a hot food delivery

  

  Blacklock have now started delivering cooked meals and we tried them to see how they compare to the real restaurant. Spoiler alert: VERY well. 

• Test Driving Cue Point - pretty perfect Afghan smoked meats

  Cue Point mix Afghan BBQ techniques with BBQ style from around the world - and then deliver the results to you. We try out some of their nacos... 

• Smokestak are delivering BBQ and DIY bun kits across London and the UK

  

  Smokestak are already smoking up a storm for north and east Londoners every Friday and Saturday - but if you've been missing out, then news of their new DIY boxes, delivering across London (and the UK) will be very welcome. 

  Everything will be smoked in Shoreditch, for up to 15 hours over kiln-dried English oak in Smokestak owner David Carter's Ole Hickory wood-fired smoker. Then everything

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