So remember last week when we told you about this really cool cookery course we tried? Turns out cookery courses are something of a trend at the moment – credit crunch, mayhaps? – and us Londoners are doin’ it for ourselves. Looks like that whole DIY thing is really catching on.

We’ve got two brand new cookery courses to report about to you at the moment. First up are the cookery classes at Moti Mahal, who are absolute legends when it comes to producing first class Indian cuisine. …

There have been some strange things on the news lately, but none more puzzling than the information that the UK is one of the biggest food wasters around. Ok, we’re all guilty of making a bit extra now and then, but we were planning on eating it, honest! Turns out that we cook enough extra food at dinner to feed at least an extra 19 million people. Yikes. (Although, for all that food, you’d think they could at least help with the dishes…)

Luckily eco-champion Arthur Potts Dawson of Acorn House and Water House has come to our rescue, along with online supermarket ocado. …

Here at the ViewLondon offices we’ve been to plenty of baby showers, and whilst we watched the lovely mothers-to-be smiling benignly and graciously thanking their guests for yet another bobble-topped hat or squeaky dino toy, we couldn’t help but be suspicious that what they were really thinking was, ‘God, I could really go for some baked beans and sultanas right about now.’

Thankfully someone has come to the rescue of these hungry mummies. Eco Pizzeria in Chiswick, after receiving a series of bizarre pizza requests from pregnant ladies, decided to give in to popular demand and create a series of oddly-topped pizzas.

They’ve gone one step further though and, …

To cook, or not to cook? That’s usually the question you ask yourself on the way home from work, stuck on the tube and dreading the prospect of fighting the crowds at your local Tesco. But thanks to L’atelier des Chefs, a new cookery school that’s just opened up by Oxford Circus, it can be a question you ask yourself at lunchtime, too.

L’atelier des Chefs has a host of cookery schools in France and they’ve just crossed the Channel to teach us Londoners how it’s done. Although the capital’s gotten quite a reputation over the past four years for being a foodie destination, even we can admit that we could use some help every now and then when it comes to cooking… ok, maybe a bit more than every now …

The ultimate going out to dinner dilemma: You want sushi, your mate wants a cheeseburger, your other mate fancies a curry – then you just give it up as a lost cause and order in your respective takeaways. Oh, to be able to go to a restaurant where you can have everything everyone is in the mood for!

Well, as long as you’re craving British and/or Lebanese food, we have the solution. Noura, London’s upscale Lebanese stalwart, is nudging their way into the renowned Cookbook Cafe at the InterContinental Hotel. For July and August, Noura is taking up residency at the …