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300 years languishing as a store room, Hampton Court's chocolate kitchen is open for business once more and the palace's archaeologists are discovering what it's like to make a mug of cocoa wearing a wig. When your palace has 1,600 rooms, it's easy to mislay a chocolate kitchen or two. "People used to point and say, 'Oh it was over there somewhere,'" says Marc Meltonville, food historian at Hampton Court, "but no one knew for sure." Read more from The Telegraph  

Is railway-station food finally getting good?

Rejoice, rail users. Maybe. The news that the restaurant chain Giraffe is about to open its first Kiosk at London King's Cross station may not set your pulse racing. What is significant, however, is that the Tesco-owned chain is now targeting travel hubs in its expansion plans. It is merely the latest in a series of indicators that the quality of food and drink at British train stations may, finally, be on the up. Read more from The Guardian