Saturday morning had Londonist sitting in on a cookery class at “chic and contemporary Indian restaurant” Moti Mahal (near Covent Garden at 45 Great Queen Street, WC2B 5AA). The student/teacher ratio was low (about ten in our class). And, our teacher, head chef Anirudh Arora (aka Chef Ani) was brilliant. His guided tour of Moti Mahal’s thriving kitchen impressed us, as did his mellow yet authoritative manner while sharing his cookery skills. Indeed, the......

From this Saturday (26th July) and occurring during the last Saturday of every month until 29th November, Covent Garden’s Moti Mahal Indian restaurant will host cookery classes led by head chef Anirudh Arora. More commonly known as Chef Ani, Anirudh will share his kitchen and his knowledge as a master of Indian cuisine with small groups of eight guests with informal two-hour classes starting at 10.30am. Participants will have the opportunity to learn how......

How about a 30 minute hands-on workshop with a professional chef during your next lunch break? Well, if you can spare the 18 quid head over to Wigmore Street's newly opened L’atelier des Chefs for a session of Cook, Eat & Run. Londonist popped in L’atelier’s shiny dream kitchens recently to discover we’re actually pretty handy in the kitchen and left feeling fairly confident we’d be able to replicate the tasty lemon scented pastasotto......

Police stormed Le Cordon Bleu cookery school in Marylebone yesterday evening following a stand off with a knife wielding student threatening to kill himself unless he was allowed to retake the intermediate course exam he had failed. The distressed chef, who'd apparently spent all of his savings on the internationally renowned course, ultimately had to be tasered by riot police after 4 hours of attempted negotiations. Others picked up on this tragic, pathetic and......

On Sunday, Londonist will participate in Food 2.0: Nom, Nom, Nom. Organised by London Blogger Annie Mole, in partnership with TrustedPlaces.com, Nom, Nom, Nom pits food bloggers, TrustedPlaces.com members, food photographers, food journalists, food authors, and everyday cooks against each other in cook-off to create the best three-course meal as judged by a panel of experts. The event will take place at the Cookery School on Little Portland Street. Without giving too much away,......

It could well be Morrocan, Algerian, Egyptian or just plain North African but whatever name you discover this cuisine goes by, you're in for a treat. Spanning the length of the southern Mediterranean Sea and (obviously) the northern edge of Africa, food from this region is influenced by the many thousands of years trade, war and intrepid travel as well as what geography and climate can offer. The canny diner will spot Turkish, Spanish......