Top 10 Healthy Eating Restaurants for Channel 4 Food Website

"After any seasonal feast, comes famine. But, as Craig Butcher discovered for 4Food, you can still enjoy all your favourites without the calories. From no-cream Indian to Michelin-starred goodness, 4Food shows you can have your cake and eat it."

To read the full article "Top 10 healthy eating UK restaurants" all about the best healthy eating restaurants across the UK, from vegetarian restaurant Terre A Terre to Michelin-starred Nottingham Restaurant Sat Bains and Bristol's Bordeaux Quay, by freelance journalist Craig Butcher for the Channel 4 Food website, the UK's biggest food website, click here.

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Features coming out soon

The Sunday Times Travel magazine have commissioned a hotel review feature for their March 2010 issue. The monthly magazine from the UK's best-selling Sunday Times newspaper will be available in the first week of February 2010.

The Channel 4 Food website have commissioned several new features for January 2010. The number one food website from Channel 4 have commissioned a healthy eating feature for the new year, as well as a drinks feature also for January 2010.

The website for the UK's leading quality men's monthly magazine, GQ, have commissioned several features for January 2010, including a Burn's Night feature, a London restaurants feature including restaurant reviews, as well as a hotel lifestyle feature. The Burns Night feature will be available on the GQ website ahead of the 25th January. The restaurants and hotels features will be available in early February.

Links to all these news stories and features will be added to the Craig Butcher website and to this blog when they become available. Click here to read more about Craig Butcher, freelance food, drink and travel writer at the Craig Butcher website. Read More......

Latest news and features from Craig Butcher

It's been a quiet Christmas and New Year on the blog, but plenty of news and features behind the scenes. I've had my first commission for The Guardian website on their food blog pages:

"From black garlic to coconut water, two top trendspotters tell Craig Butcher what they see in their crystal balls. Is there anything in it or do you think it's all a load of old cobblers?"

To read the full article "Food Trends 2010" for The Guardian Food website, by freelance food and drink journalist Craig Butcher, click here to go to The Guardian Food website.


My feature "Bean Around The World" has also published in print. It surveys different tastes for coffee around the world for leading US coffee trade magazine Roast Magazine in their January / February 2010 issue. It includes comment from well known roasters Monmouth Coffee, James Hoffman from Square Mile Coffee Roasters and PTs coffee in the US:

"Bean Around The World: How roasters are responding to customer demands and changing tastes".

To read the full article by freelance food and drink journalist Craig Butcher click here for the PDF. Note, it's a large file and may take some time to download.

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