Eat, Sleep, Drink

I’d never been to a supper club before the Friday night we darkened the door of Shabir and Sarah Ally of Durban Spice. I’ve always found the idea odd because it feels like the rules should be different in someone’s house – if you got asked to take your shoes off on your way into a restaurant you’d have every right to be a little miffed – and what if the food’s rank? How could anyone feign a ‘customer is always right’ shtick when you’re a guest in their home?

Whether you're starting the day with a Champagne breakfast in bed, ending it with a candlelit meal for two or just looking for the perfect gift to give to a loved one, celebrate Valentine's Day the right way with Aldi's award-winning wines, available in stores and online.

It's back! Cornbury Music Festival returns this year, celebrating its Sweet 16th. Are you ready to party?

The quality of ingredients matched with the brand's personality at such reasonable prices is a triple threat that is to provide a welcome alternative to your standard gut-destroying fast food options. In all, Mollie's does exactly what it needs to for the one-time customer and is full of enough quirks and comforts to have travellers reroute to include it. I'm told that other sites are already in the pipeline, so watch out — the American dream is coming soon to a motorway near you.

By definition a kitchen garden or potager is where vegetables, fruit and herbs are grown. I often include a cutting garden (cut flowers for the house) as well in my designs if space allows. When designing, there are two key things to bear in mind: practicality and beauty. The space needs to be able to produce an abundant crop and if the layout and structure can also be beautiful then it can be closer to the house and good to look at.

January 25th is traditionally Burns Night,  commemorating the life of poet and lyricist Robert Burns and his contribution to Scottish culture. If this appeals to you, and you want to experience a taste of Scottish culture - you're in luck! The following Oxfordshire venues are celebrating Burns Night in various different ways.

This Valentine's Day, one question will remain for a foodie couple: to eat in, or out? OXmag has you covered. If venturing out, newly-grownup foodie, Toby Hambly, has starry-eyed dispatches from an Oxford mainstay and a favourite haunt.

After a chance meeting at the Didcot Street Fair I find myself on the way to meet Simon Collison, a man who knows more about the UK's food and drink industry than anyone you're likely to meet. I was there to discover the ethos of a man whose enterprise, Foodylicious, had caught our attention. He's an extremely affable chap, with a generous smile and genuinely enthusiastic tone. I first ask him of the route of his career thus far and discover a raft of leading brands that he was responsible for bringing to the UK consumer.