Cookbook Cafe

Now here's one with a real difference. Cookbook Cafe is located at the InterContinental in Park Lane, and is designed as a venue for aspiring chefs and sommeliers. There is an extensive programme of wine and food tastings, book launches, drinks master classes, cooking demonstrations and roundtable discussions, many attended by renowned visiting chefs, all bound into the normal day to day business of a chef's restaurant.

A library of over 200 original cookbooks embraces volumes that are rare antiques to bang-slap up to date collections. Unlike other restaurants, cooking stations are located centrally enabling the artisan chefs to demonstrate their skills whilst gaining valuable feedback from the customers, if their attention can be gained from observing the goings on in Hyde Park through the large windows. I doubt if London, or anywhere else for that matter, has ever seen anything quite so innovative in its class as Cookbook Cafe.