Fortnum & Mason

• Test Driving the savoury afternoon tea at Fortnum & Mason - all the theatrics without the sugar high

  

  When historic food store Fortnum & Mason opened their Diamond Jubilee Tea Salon in Piccadilly, they also introduced a savoury afternoon tea for the first time. We went down to see how it compares with the traditional version. 

• Rick Stein classic dishes are popping up at Fortnum's

  

  You'll see Rick Stein restaurants all over Padstow, but at the moment his only London outpost is in Barnes (a notably great restaurant for riverside dining). But if you fancy trying the chef's dishes in a little more of a central location, it might be worth checking out the special Rick Stein menu that Fortnum's are putting on at their Royal Exchange outpost.

  It's all to celebrate 50

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• Viral Leeds bakery Get Baked is popping up at Fortnum's

  

  Leeds bakery Get Baked makes a cake so viral that mere minutes after sales go live on their website every slice is gone in a flash. Now, Get Baked by Rich Myers is coming to London.

  Best known for its Bruce cake - a towering 24-layered chocolate cake - the London pop-up will showcase the creation of Bruce's successor, the Bertha which is exactly the same except for one detail, the ganache will be a mix of milk and

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• Fortnum's honour The Hairy Bikers and Rick Stein at their annual food and drink awards

  

  It's always one of our favourite parties to go to each year and last night's bash by Fortnum's at The Royal Exchange was no different. The party was held to announce the famous food shop's annual Food and Drink Awards, celebrating the UK's writers, photographers and content creators.

  Going home with gongs last night were the Financial Times restaurant critic Tim Hayward, writer and expert on Chinese

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• St John is popping up at Fortnum & Mason while the builders are in

  

  Most restaurants have to close for a few weeks when they do any internal work. But St John, always one to do things differently, has approached its upcoming kitchen refurb as an opportunity to try something new. So while their Smithfield restaurant is shut next month, they'll be decamping to Piccadilly store Fortnum & Mason for a three-week pop-up.

  "Smithfield may be closed," says co-owner Trevor Gulliver,

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• Fortnum & Mason unveils a new food and drink studio, transforming its third floor

  

  Fortnum & Mason: home of extravagant wicker hampers, a famous food hall, a signature Eau de Nil shade of blue-green and now…a brand new food and drink studio.

  Taking over the third floor of the historic flagship department store in Piccadilly, the purpose-built interactive space will feature a production kitchen where over 100 of Fortnum’s chefs will

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• The 10th annual Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards celebrate food writers, presenters and more

  

  Last night saw the 10th annual Fortnum & Mason Food and Drink Awards take place at The Royal Exchange. And, as you'd expect from a ceremony chaired by Claudia Winkleman and Angela Hartnett, the bash attracted quite the foodie audience including Mary Berry, Monica Galetti and Claudia Roden.

  Here's who went home with a bioplastic hamper-shaped award (and an actual hamper) from this year's

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• Field by Fortnum's is their new sustainable in-store restaurant pop-up

  

  Fortnum's is getting ready to launch a new restaurant, its first in the main Piccadilly store in six years (the last was the standalone restaurant (but connected to the main store) 45 Jermyn Street). It'll be a pop-up restaurant with a focus on sustainability called Field by Fortnums. 

  It'll take over the restaurant at the back of the store as a pop-up in the run-up to the

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