A Paleo feast in London

Back in Issue One, Ceri Jones told us all about getting back to our nutritional roots with the Paleo diet. While there are loads of hearty Paleo meals you can cook for yourself (see page 38 of Issue One for one of Ceri's delicious recipes), eating out can be tricky. Even if you do manage to find something you can have, you're not likely to get much choice - and surely half the fun of having dinner in a restaurant is poring over the menu and trying to decide between all the delicious options.

So thank (nutritional) goodness for Pure Taste, Britain's first Paleo restaurant, which opened recently in Notting Hill and provides a whole treasure trove of Paleo treats. The menu - which is also entirely gluten-free and dairy-free - offers everything from sourdough to scallops, beef to banoffee and caters to a variety of other diets too, including vegan and low carb. 

As London wakes up to the demand for healthy, ethical places to eat out, an increasing variety of cafes and restaurants are popping up to meet the needs of health-seeking foodies. If Paleo isn't for you, perhaps raw food is more up your alley. If so, look no further then Tanya's Cafe in Chelsea, which offers 100% raw and organic breakfasts, lunches and dinners plus a range of superfood cocktails. So raise your glass of Tanya's Toddy and say three 'chias' to good health!

The Paleo path - sneak peek

Think of the Paleo diet and you might picture neanderthals sitting round a fire in loincloths, tearing hunks of meat off the bone. Ceri Jones is here to show us that there is far more to the Paleo lifestyle than this; it can be a simple, delicious and modern way of living.

Extract from Issue One

"The basic concept of the Paleo diet is eating food in its most natural state - as humans would have done in the Palaeolithic or caveman era. Obviously we don't know everything about how cavemen really did eat, since there were no books or records then. However we have a pretty good idea that they ate indigenously and only ate foods that were available to them - meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds.

With the Paleo diet (or lifestyle as is often preferred) a strong emphasis is placed on the quality of the ingredients - grass-fed meat, free-range poultry and eggs, cold-pressed oils, organically grown and produced where possible. This is particularly important since agriculture and modern farming developments with pesticides and growing hormones have greatly affected the quality of 21t century food - cavemen didn't feed their chickens a little pill to make them grown quicker and fatter, or feed them cheap mass-produced grains."

See Issue One for full article