Topics: Food, Drink

  • Discover delicious gluten-free cake recipes with cookbook baking app "Cook & Bake Gluten Free", says CloseUp PR

    Nothing beats a good homemade cake whether it’s for a birthday party, coffee break or dessert. Cook & Bake Gluten Free is a new interactive cookbook with gorgeous classic cake recipes all baked without gluten, created by Swedish baking gurus Maria Blohm and Jessica Frej. Published as an app for iPad and iPhone, it's available in Swedish and English, with measurements in both metric and imperial.

  • Lisa’s Swedish bar and restaurant launches in London’s Notting Hill, announces CloseUp PR

    Lisa's a stylish new contemporary Swedish restaurant and vibrant bar has arrived in London’s uber fashionable Notting Hill, where rustic food is delivered with modern simplicity. Inspired by Swedish founder, Lisa’s Wallén’s childhood memories, the menu offers a unique culinary experience coloured by Sweden’s four distinct seasons of the year.

  • Acclaimed Swedish bakers team up to open their first London store

    Bageriet brings a touch of Scandinavian style to London’s Covent Garden as the traditional Swedish bakery opens at 24 Rose Street. Award winning Swedish bakers Daniel Karlsson and Sven-Gunnar Appelgren aim to bring quality and originality to their newly launched operation as Daniel explains: “We want to provide the best fresh bread, pastries and traditional Swedish open sandwiches in London."

  • CELIA wins FreeFrom Food Awards as ‘Best Gluten Free Beer’

    CELIA lager is delighted to have won ‘Best Gluten Free Beer’ at the prestigious 2013 FreeFrom Food Awards, presented by Antony Worrall Thompson. The judges verdict states: "Very clear, not much head but tastes great. Pleasant feel in the mouth, lovely sweet taste after a few mouthfuls, refreshing, clears palate. Lager drinkers will like this." http://www.celialager.co.uk

  • Freedom Deli wins Free From Food Award in Ready Meal category for gluten-free Panini

    Freedom Deli, one of the UK’s most exciting and fastest growing free-from food producers, is celebrating a further accolade for its range of chilled and frozen gluten-free and wheat-free ready meals, pastries and filled paninis, following last night’s Free From Food Awards 2013 in London where Freedom Deli received the top award in the Ready Meals category for its Ham & Cheese Gluten-Free Panini.

  • CELEBRATE A TRADITIONAL SWEDISH CHRISTMAS ON YOUR SMARTPHONE

    London-based Swedish ex-pat Mia Karlsson has devised a truly charming and innovative new Advent Calendar app for smart phones, Swedish Christmas (1 app. 24 windows - text in Swedish and English). Features include traditional Swedish Christmas songs and videos displaying festive traditions such as candle-making, dancing games, baking saffron buns and a Lucia procession.

  • London's TotallySwedish to launch a range of exciting new Swedish deli products

    Swedish food specialists TotallySwedish will be exhibiting at stand 127, The Scandinavia Show, Earls Court, London 6-7th of October. They are launching a range of regional artisan foods, most of which have received awards by Husmansbord and Jakten på Sveriges bästa landskapsmat. TotallySwedish have two London stores and an online shop, which stock more than 800 different Swedish food products.

  • Hole-free Swiss cheese wins the 2012 FreeFrom Food Awards!!

    FreeFrom Food Awards is the industry's only award for excellence for freefrom food – raising the profile of freefrom within the industry and with the consumer. The 2012 awards were presented by Antony Worrall Thompson at the 5th annual FreeFrom Food Awards party on 17th April 2012 at the Museum of London in Docklands, London.

  • FRIA – NOW AVAILABLE IN BELGIUM

    A large selection of Fria’s products now being available in over a hundred O’Cool stores in Belgium. “The demand for Fria products is increasing so we’re really excited that our products have been so well-received in Belgium – it’s clearly an important new market for us", says Gunnar Adås, founder, co-owner and managing director at Fria.

  • 5th annual ‘FreeFrom’ Food Awards open on 15th September

    An increasing amount of people in the UK buy freefrom food. It's estimated that the global market for freefrom food will be $17 billion by 2017! The annual FreeFrom Food Awards seek out the the best of those freefrom foods. The awards, whose patron is long-term champion of freefrom food, Antony Worrall Thompson, have been hugely successful in raising the profile and the quality of freefrom food.

  • TOTALLYSWEDISH HITS BARNES - New Swedish shop opens in High Street Barnes, West London

    The massive popularity of central London’s TotallySwedish store, has prompted the launch of a second TotallySwedish in High Street, Barnes in West London: “I’ve been running the shop in Crawford Street in the West End of London since September 2005", says owner Annethe Nathan, “and the business has been going very well and it’s so popular, we’ve decided to expand and open a new store".

  • COOKING GLUTEN, WHEAT AND DAIRY FREE - A NEW FREE-FROM COOKBOOK

    Cooking Gluten, Wheat and Dairy Free is a new Free From cookbook from Michelle Berriedale-Johnson. "If you want to stick to a dairy, gluten and wheat-free diet, you need to know where your forbidden ingredients are likely to be found and what alternatives to use", says Michelle Berriedale-Johnson, who is an expert on 'free from' cooking with over 20 books to her name.

  • FRIA DEBUTS AT ALLERGY & GLUTEN-FREE SHOW 2011

    Scandinavian market-leader responds to UK demand and confirms exciting new deal to distribute its award-winning gluten-free bakery products online through the UK's GFF Direct.

  • FRIA PROVES A UK HIT

    Following the highly popular Swedish food trials during January and February 2011 at John Lewis Foodhalls from Waitrose, Oxford Street and Bluewater, Kent, public demand means that Scandinavian gluten-free market-leader Fria's breads will continue to be sold in both flagship stores.

  • ROYAL VISIT FOR FRIA TO CELEBRATE THE UK'S GROWING APPETITE FOR NORDIC NOSH

    His Royal Highness Prince Daniel of Sweden, Duke of Västergötland, dropped by John Lewis Foodhalls from Waitrose on London's Oxford Street to sample products from FRIA the award-winning gluten-free bakery. FRIA has arrived in the UK as part of a major Swedish food trial in collaboration with the Swedish Trade Council and Waitrose in response to the UK’s growing appetite for Scandinavian food.

  • UK DEMAND FOR FRIA'S GLUTEN-FREE PRODUCTS

    Scandinavian market-leader FRIA responds to uk demand for its new gluten-free products. Further february tasting days scheduled in London and Kent as consumers provide positive feedback on arrival of FRIA.

  • SWEDISH READY MEALS ARE A SUCCESS IN LONDON AND KENT

    Meatballs, Cured Salmon, Cabbage Pudding and Lingonberries. Swedish ready meals from Pure Scandinavian are now on trial for their third week in London and Kent, and the results are exceeding all expectations!

  • FRIA, Sweden's favourite gluten-free bread arrives in the UK

    Fria is the Scandinavian market-leader in gluten-free bread. From January 2011 the UK will be able to enjoy Fria’s delicious award-winning products in selected John Lewis foodhalls from Waitrose. Once you try Fria, you’ll realise what you’ve been missing from other gluten-free breads!

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