Drink

Renowned Leeds cocktail bar, Jake’s Bar and Still Room, launches an innovative new cocktail menu to celebrate 11 years of being in business.

I was sitting at the polished dining table at Quinta dos Canais in the Upper Douro, Portugal, the home of Cockburn’s port, when the bottle of Special Reserve Port was passed around. This was the perfect...

This American-style brewpub is impressive on a number of levels. First off, the vast copper vats at one end of the spacious, light ground-floor building and the snaking pipes carrying the newly-brewed beer to...

Leeds beer blogger and food writer Leigh Linley has become something of a local legend thanks to his hit site The Good Stuff , so who better to pick out the five best Real Ale pubs in Leeds? From iconic...

Wild at heart: Christine Austin travels south from Santiago to find out how twisted old vines are producing new wines.

The Phoenix pub in York is a proper boozer sitting almost glued to the City walls close to the Barbican. There’s not a sniff of spit and sawdust, just great scrubbed floorboards, decorative iron tables...

I hadn’t realised just how big the Neusiedler See (Lake Neusiedl) is. This shallow lake, in the far eastern part of Austria, is more than 20 miles long and six miles wide, and it runs roughly from north to...

Raisthorpe Manor’s glamorous 9ct Shimmering Toffee & Caramel Vodka Liqueur has proved to be worth its weight in gold this week – quite literally – as it grabbed a Gold Star at Great Taste.

A survey of 2,000 people, commissioned by the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) and undertaken by independent research company YouGov, shows that 34% of drinkers opt for a half pint glass when trying a new beer, whereas a joint 26% opt for a pint glass or third of a pint glass.

Licensee Antony Pratt is a relative newcomer to the pub trade. He lives in Ainsty and watched his local change hands time and time again – and in 2013 had a lightbulb moment.