Results tagged “beer”

Tony Hadley has a double reason to look forward to the Greenwich Beer and Jazz Festival at the end of the month.

The Spandau Ballet singer is headlining the Sunday night of the festival with his swing band, but also has a range of his beers being showcased over the weekend.

Meantime has signed a lease on a new brewery just ten minutes walk from the O2 arena.

The Greenwich brewer - which creates a range of beers from London pale ale to pilsner and stout - will start shipping out beer from the £1.5million facility in Blackwall Lane next summer.

The Canteen restaurant chain celebrates all things British, boasting a menu packed with the nation's favourites.

Canteen has gone from strength to strength since its first outlet opened in Spitalfields just four years ago. Chef Cass Titcombe spoke to The Wharf about Canteen's arrival in the area.

Click here for factfiles of the local haunts in the 2010 Good Beer Guide

If you're a real ale lover, this particular stretch of the Thames hasn't always been seen as a beacon of pint-related pleasure.

Aside from the Grapes in Limehouse and the North Pole in Manilla Street, the E14 postcode is often no more than a footnote in Camra's extensive Good Beer Guides.

West India Quay's Ledger Building is aiming to break into the UK's beer bible.

The Wetherspoons outlet is adopting old fashioned storage methods in a bid to be listed in Camra's annual Good Beer Guide.

If you're struggling to find a place to unwind tonight, why not try the Wetherspoons International Real Ale Festival?

The event will run at bars including West India Quay's Ledger Building from today until Monday May 4.

By Victoria Clayton

After sampling plentiful beers, lagers, and ciders on a TV road trip across Britain and Ireland last summer, double act James May, co-host of BBC 2's Top Gear, and wine expert Oz Clarke decided that tea was the drink that defines modern Britain.

Credit crunched Wharfers are raising their glasses to the prospect of a pint for less than a pound.

West India Quay Wetherspoons bar The Ledger Building is offering pints of Greene King IPA and bottles of San Miguel for 99p as part of the chain’s new pricing structure.