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London’s restaurants offer up edible gold

Restaurants across the city have been serving up delicious London-honey based specials in a UK first as part of Capital Bee’s London Honey Festival. 

A staggering half a tonne of urban honey from 18 apiaries has been made available to the Capital’s restaurants to date, The festival took place at the Royal Festival Hall on 21 August, but many of the participating restaurants - Caffe Caldesi, Dishoom, Eden Caterers, The Three Stags, Roast, Skylon, The Table Café, L'Eau a la Bouche, The Charles Lamb and Drake & Morgan - made the specials available throughout August.

Caffe Caldesi in Marylebone Lane served up oven-baked salmon with pistachio and honey crust, and The Three Stags in Lambeth is offered a special three course meal, consisting of grilled goat's cheese with roasted beets, honey dressing; honey-glazed whole chicken with fennel, chilli, red onion & bacon, olives and preserved lemons, served with buttered greens and new potatoes; and honey-poached greengages with marscapone, Amaretti biscuits. 

The Refinery on Southwark St devised ‘Cowboy Fries with London honey infused sauce’, and a Skinny honey passion cocktail.  Honey-based cocktails were also popular with other restaurants:  Roast, in Borough Market, which already gets its honey from George Green school in Isle of Dogs, served a ‘Bare Back Rider’, made with Calvados, honey, fresh grapefruit juice, Dishoom’s Southbank Chowpatty Beach Bar on the Southbank produced a ‘Honeymoon’ cocktail, and up the road Skylon shook up the ‘Honey Trap’, made with honey vodka, rosewater, ginger liqueur, lemon juice and London honey.

A staggering half a tonne of urban honey has been made available by 18 apiaries to the Capital’s restaurants – so get down to your nearest participating restaurant to sample their specials and support urban bees the tasty way. Many restaurants have their specials on throughout August.

Restaurants that participated with London honey specials were:

  • Caffe Caldesi (118 Marylebone Lane, London, W1U 2QF): Oven-baked salmon with pistachio and honey crust. http://www.caldesi.com/caffe_caldesi/caffe-caldesi-gallery
  • Dishoom’s Southbank Chowpatty Beach Bar (Queen Elizabeth Hall Terrace, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London SE1 8XX): honey cocktail. http://www.dishoom.com/southbank-pop-up/
  • The Three Stags (67/69 Kennington Road, London SE1 7PZ ): rooftop garden salad to start with a honey dressing, Arabic  meat marinate of honey and preserved lemons, served with saffron chickpeas, cous cous and honeycomb ice cream or honey cake with almonds. http://www.thethreestags.org/ 
  • Roast (The Floral Hall, Stoney Street, London SE1 1TL ): "Bare Back Rider" cocktail - Calvados, honey, fresh grapefruit juice, and rosemary-baked custard with figs and honeycomb. http://www.roast-restaurant.com/ 
  • The Table Café (83 Southwark Street, London, SE1 0HX): Toasted banana bread with homemade ricotta and honey. http://www.thetablecafe.com/
  • L'Eau a la Bouche (35-37 Broadway Market London E8 4PH): London honey with breakfasts and in dressings and sauce. http://www.labouche.co.uk/ 
  • Skylon (Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX): “Honey Trap” cocktail, with honey vodka, rosewater, ginger liqueur, lemon juice and London honey,  and honey parfait dessert http://www.skylon-restaurant.co.uk/ 
  • Manson (676 Fulham Road, London, SW6 5SA): London Honey and almond sponge, plum ripple ice cream, and London Honey Ciaprahina cocktail. http://www.mansonrestaurant.co.uk/ 
  • The Parlour (The Park Pavilion, 40 Canada Square Park, London E14 5FW): Skinny honey passion cocktail and Cowboy Fries with London honey infused sauce.  http://www.theparlourbar.co.uk/
  • The Drift (Heron Tower, 110 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4AY): Skinny honey passion cocktail and Cowboy Fries with London honey infused sauce.  http://thedriftbar.co.uk/
  • The Folly (41 Gracechurch St London EC3V 0BT): Skinny honey passion cocktail and Cowboy Fries with London honey infused sauce. http://thefollybar.co.uk/
  • The Anthologist (58 Gresham Street, London, EC2V 7BB): Skinny honey passion cocktail and Cowboy Fries with London honey infused sauce. http://www.theanthologistbar.co.uk/
  • The Refinery (110 Southwark St, London, SE1 0TF): Skinny honey passion cocktail and Cowboy Fries with London honey infused sauce. http://www.therefinerybar.co.uk/
  • Eden Caterers (locations across London): Cherry & Walnut flapjack. http://www.eden-caters.co.uk/