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The salads with more fat than a Big Mac

Some supermarket salads contain more fat than a Big Mac and fries, consumer group Which? has found, with leafy lunches stocked at Morrisons and among the least healthy options.
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Inside Food & Drink

Chilis, along with Maggiano?s, closed yesterday

Restaurants blow for Victoria Square

Thursday, 18 June 2009

Victoria Square in Belfast suffered another blow when it was announced that two restaurants were closing immediately.
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Venezuela bans 'harmful' Coca-Cola Zero

Thursday, 11 June 2009

Venezuela's health ministry has banned the sale of Coca-Cola Zero, claiming the no-calorie soft drink contains harmful ingredients.
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Rosé wine rule stays in place

Monday, 8 June 2009

A plan to allow wine makers to mix red and white to make rosé was dropped by the EU today.
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Luigi's Extra Virgin Olive Oil 
Luigi, who has run the same deli in Chelsea for more than 30 years, relies on an old school friend to produce this magnificent oil in Tuscany. It's a beautiful, grassy olive oil with a hint of apple and a strong and pungent taste - typical of Tuscan oils.
Price: £17.50 (750ml)
www.luigismailorder.com

The Ten Best Olive Oils

Friday, 22 May 2009

Here is a healty selection of Olive oils to get cooking with
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Maureen hooks Twitter fans with tasty Tweets

Friday, 22 May 2009

Celebrities use Twitter to keep their fans up-to-date on their activities and opinions. But a Canadian woman living in Whitehead is putting the 140 characters it takes to make a Tweet to more practical use — bite-sized recipes for a range of delectable dishes.
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Sweet job: Boy, 12, lands job as taster

Thursday, 14 May 2009

A 12-year-old boy will spend the next year sampling sweets after landing a job as an official taster.
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The Metro Friday team - Sarah Mayes and Ryan McBride

Best value evenings in Belfast

Friday, 8 May 2009

With the start of May comes festival season so last Friday we enjoyed two shows as well as drinks and dinner!
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Armagh’s apples: recipes for tasty treats

Friday, 8 May 2009

As Co Armagh marks 200 years of Bramleys, you can try out these tasty treats
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The 50 Best Bars

Wednesday, 6 May 2009

Hip hotels, hidden speakeasies and classic cocktail lounges, mixed by Toby Green
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2006 Codorniu Vintage Rosé Cava
There are not many half-price deals that are worth having but here's one that is. Slashed in two for the Christmas period, this modern Catalan sparkler made by the traditional champagne method using pinot noir and Spain's homegrown monastrell grapes offers a summery glassful brimming with strawberry-cut fruitiness with a touch of sweetness, but tacks on a lively dry finish that puts it a cut above your common-or-garden cava.
Price: £5.49 - Tesco

The 50 Best Wines

Tuesday, 5 May 2009

From vintage champagne to party-friendly plonk, we taste the finest wines of the year, and last year, and the year before...
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Bateman's Rosey Nosey (4.9%)
Warming, rich, malty beer with a good, solid underpinning of spicy hops and the typical ripe fruit signature of all Bateman's ales that come from a family-owned brewery in Lincolnshire.
Price: £1.69 from Aldi, Asda, Booths, Co-op, Morrisons - www.bateman.co.uk

The Ten Best Winter Ales

Monday, 4 May 2009

Relax by the fireside with a warming winter ale.
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Revealed: cereals with as much sugar as ice cream and as much salt as a packet of crisps

Wednesday, 29 April 2009

Pitched as the most important meal of the day, a leading consumer organisation today revealed startling evidence about popular breakfast cereals.
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An iconic brand: The original advert for Barrett?s Sherbet Fountain

How the fizz is being sucked out of iconic sweet wrappers

Tuesday, 28 April 2009

For the hardcore sentimentalists it is a step too far. First Fairy Liquid replaced its squeezy white bottle (and perfect water pistol substitute) with a snazzy but less fun clear container.
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The Metro Friday team - Sarah Mayes and Ryan McBride

Metro Friday - have a great night out in Belfast

Friday, 24 April 2009

Hi and welcome to the very first Hot Ticket — a brand new guide to what’s hot in Belfast on Fridays, using your Metro bus ticket to access great-value dining, drinks, entertainment and pampering in the city.
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Spanish eatery El Bulli is ‘best in world’

Tuesday, 21 April 2009

A restaurant in Spain that only opens for seven months a year has been voted the best in the world.
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Gordon Ramsay

Ramsay backs ready-made food at his restaurants

Saturday, 18 April 2009

Gordon Ramsay has been forced to defend his reputation after it was revealed he uses ready-made food at one of his restaurants and in his gastropubs.
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Still some cheer for local wine suppliers

Saturday, 11 April 2009

There are grapes of wrath in the UK’s alcohol business due to falling wine sales, it was claimed today - but Northern Ireland’s wine sellers deny they have any reason to cry into their wine glasses.
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Innocent smoothies stake sold to Coke

Tuesday, 7 April 2009

As 160 Innocent staff stood on the artificial grass in the "chill-out room" of their headquarters, Fruit Towers, yesterday, they were about to receive some news that not all of them found as palatable as their smoothies.
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Conor McCarthy of The Apartment, Michael O'Connor from The Barking Dog, Darran Baker of Ba Mizu and Martina Connolly from Belfast Chamber of Trade and Commerce

Credit crunching Meal Deal is back

Friday, 3 April 2009

Food lovers are in for an affordable gastronomic treat with the return of the highly successful Meal Deal promotion.
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The Ten Best Easter Treats

Thursday, 2 April 2009

Sit back and relax with one of these delicious Easter treats.
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