The Longroom: restaurant review
Artisan beer with salty snacks sounds like a good idea, but the Longroom's short menu doesn't quite hit the spot18-20 St John's Street, London EC1 (020 7336 6099). Meal for two, including wine and...
View ArticleAntonio Carluccio's Piedmont: a region rich in food … and artisan chocolate
Italian cooking with a focus on traditional meat dishes, polenta, and fine pastries defines a region with Turin at its heartI was brought up in a village called Borgofranco in the Aosta valley. The...
View ArticleRestaurant: Maxelâ, London SW7
'This place might as well be subtitled "Up yours, vegetarians!" 'The frontage of this small restaurant deviates from its neighbours quite dramatically. There's no menu, no decoration, no view into the...
View ArticleBrasserie Chavot: restaurant review
Eric Chavot's brilliant brasserie shows what happens when a top chef uses his powers in the service of gluttony41 Conduit Street, London W1 (020 7078 9577). Meal for two, including wine and service:...
View ArticleKFC expansion to create 1,600 jobs
Fried-chicken chain plans to open more than 40 restaurants across UK and Ireland, and refurbish 160 existing eateriesFried-chicken restaurant chain KFC will create 1,600 jobs this year by opening more...
View ArticleMoro chef Sam Clark recommends Mangal - video
Where do chefs go to eat? Sam Clark, the chef-patron of Moro, recommends Mangal, a Turkish ocakbasi restaurant in Dalston
View ArticleRestaurant: Electric Diner, London W11
'Sometimes you've just got to lie back and enjoy it'I'm slinking into this review via the back door. No more boring the bahookie off us with pimped comfort food, I said. Or dude food or dirrrty food or...
View Article40 Maltby Street: restaurant review
Regulars at 40 Maltby Street want to keep it a secret – but the food at this quirky kitchen is just too good for that40 Maltby Street, London SE1 (020 7237 9247). Meal for two, including wine and...
View ArticleLondon's cooking waste to fuel power station
Thames Water and 2OC in deal worth £200m over 20 years to turn 'fatbergs' clogging capital's sewers into energy for sewage works and homesCooking waste from thousands of London restaurants and food...
View ArticleA quick guide to Portuguese cuisine
There's more to Portugal's rich culinary heritage than piri-piri chicken, says top chef Luis Baena, who hopes to convert Britain to his country's foodNext month, one of Portugal's best known chefs,...
View ArticleRestaurant: Ametsa with Arzak Instruction, London SW1
'Apparently you can't get a table for months. Well, dear chums, don't bother'Above our heads are what we're told are more than 7,000 test tubes full of spices – turmeric and cumin and whatnot. They...
View ArticleBalthazar: restaurant review
Balthazar has arrived in London in a cloud of hype. A shame then that it fails to live up to the expectation4-6 Russell Street, London WC2 (020 3301 1155). Meal for two, including wine and service:...
View ArticleEl Bulli: watch the film on demand
El Bulli: Cooking in Progress – a mouth-watering documentary about the Michelin-starred Spanish restaurant
View ArticleEl Bulli: Cooking in Progress – watch the film here
Our New View film season kicks off with a study of the brilliant chef Ferran Adrià and his groundbreaking restaurant El Bulli. Available in the UK and Ireland onlyReading on mobile? Click here to watch...
View ArticleYorke Arms chef Frances Atkins recommends Bettys tea room in Harrogate - video
Where do chefs go to eat? Frances Atkins, Michelin-starred chef of the Yorke Arms in Nidderdale, North Yorkshire, recommends Bettys tea room in Harrogate
View ArticleRestaurant prices are on the rise – so where can you still eat well for less?
With wine, the average meal for two now costs around £55; at Michelin level, triple that. But need genuinely good food always cost a lot? Tell us about your cut-price gastro thrillsBlimey. How much!?...
View ArticleRestaurant: Hartnett Holder & Co, Lime Wood, Lyndhurst, Hampshire
'Boy, can this pair write a menu. Every dish is something you'd like to eat, all peppered with contemporary foodie button-pushers'Our drive to this Arcadian idyll takes us past several wild ponies. We...
View Article'Our recipes are from the land as much as from the chef'
The team from the award-winning Ethicurean restaurant explain the food philosophy behind their new cookbookIn 2010, four friends discovered a Victorian walled garden in the Mendip Hills, 10 miles...
View ArticleSpring dessert recipes
Chocolate and salt caramel brownies with cherry and elderflower sauce, and rhubarb and custard, from the Ethicurean CookbookChocolate and salt caramel brownies with cherry and elderflower sauceThere...
View ArticleSpring meat and fish recipes
Salt marsh lamb with tidal greens, and sweet-cure mackerel with morels, spelt soda bread and horseradish, from the Ethicurean CookbookSalt marsh lamb with tidal greensIn England, the benefits of salt...
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