‘An instinct to feed’ – New British Classics by Gary Rhodes
In the first of a series thumbing through his most-beloved cookery books, Jay feasts like it’s 1999The dust jacket is long gone and the title-embossed spine flaps free. Naturally, many of the pages are...
View ArticleClare Smyth and Hélène Darroze celebrate three Michelin stars
Female chefs awarded maximum stars in online ceremony after tough Covid-hit year for hospitality Clare Smyth, who catered for Prince Harry and Meghan’s evening wedding reception, was celebrating on...
View ArticleClare Smyth, UK's first female three-star Michelin winner: It's been...
Before Covid her restaurant, Core, would have been booked out for months. Now, after the Zoom award ceremony Smyth had a pizza and went to bedThe day after Clare Smythwon three Michelin stars, becoming...
View ArticleOut of the box: a guide to the best UK restaurant meal kits
Restaurants may be closed as Valentine’s Day looms but you can still taste dishes from top chefsRestaurant doors may be closed but chefs are boxing clever. Takeaways have evolved into home-delivery...
View ArticleA taste of home: Claudia Roden’s majestic Book of Jewish Food
It took 16 years to write and is more an ‘encyclopaedia of Jewish life’ than cookbookIn matters of culture my late mother, Claire, took her lead from the great Times columnist Bernard Levin and...
View ArticleCould we see the wine list? | David Williams
The top restaurants that are raiding their cellars for home wine deliveriesMilan Nestarec Forks & Knives White, Moravia, Czech Republic 2018 (from £26, buonvino.co.uk, sagerandwilde.com) For...
View ArticleBoxing clever: Britain’s top chefs reinvent fine dining at home
Restaurants stay afloat and customers enjoy haute cuisine delivered to the door: a passing fad, or will it endure post-Covid?Guide to the best UK restaurant meal kitsSee all our coronavirus...
View ArticleBirmingham Indian restaurant to offer in-car lockdown meals
Varanasi will serve three-course meals styled on business class aeroplane food direct to customers’ cars Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageWith restaurants facing a...
View ArticleThe vivid flavours of Sichuan, with Fuchsia Dunlop as our guide
Expert advice on this most intricate of regional Chinese cooking traditionsA Saturday morning and I am roaming the broad aisles of Wing Yip, the thrilling Asian supermarket in Croydon, trying to bring...
View ArticleBirmingham restaurant in-car dining not Covid-friendly, say police
Indian restaurant must change plans for luxury three-course meal in car park next to premisesCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA Birmingham restaurant which was preparing to...
View ArticleI quit food delivery apps – the absurd convenience was not worth the cost |...
Ordering food on your phone may save time, but for Josephine Tovey, the bitter aftertaste became too hard to swallowAbout two months ago I deleted Uber Eats from my phone.Not because I didn’t like...
View ArticleFrom the archive: a gourmet guide to transport cafés, 1967
Some of the snack-scoffing regulars were delighted to see our intrepid reporter, others less soMarika Hanbury-Tenison took to the road for the Observer Magazine to find out which transport cafés were...
View ArticleHow we all fell for Simon Hopkinson's lovely tale of roast chicken
Simon Hopkinson’s much-loved book of French dishes is about cooking – and many other storiesIf you’re going to do something that feels utterly filthy and wrong, it’s always good to believe you’re only...
View ArticleFay Maschler: ‘A lot of male chefs found it hard to take my reviews’
The doyenne of restaurant critics on working incognito, cooking as seduction and being vegetarian in Surrey in 1955I always used another name to book a table – often the name of the person I was eating...
View ArticleHow Ottolenghi’s bright colours and vivid tastes changed the way we eat
The sheer vibrancy and joy of Yotam Ottolenghi’s Mediterranean-inspired dishes caught everyone’s imaginationIn 2002 the literary agent Felicity Rubinstein found herself drawn to a white-walled deli...
View ArticleFrom the docks to the eBay – will online marketplaces save the fishing industry?
Britain’s inshore fleet has been pummelled by Brexit and Covid. One firm hopes to help it connect with its customers, secure better prices and make it a sustainable successOn a bracing January morning...
View ArticleGordon Ramsay: my restaurants are £60m down thanks to Covid
Celebrity chef says £10m worth of reservations were ‘wiped out overnight’ in DecemberCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageGordon Ramsay has suffered his own kitchen nightmare...
View ArticleFergus Henderson’s ‘whole animal’ recipes inspired chefs on both sides of the...
From a white-walled restaurant in Clerkenwell, his roast bone marrow dish has gone on to conquer the worldIt is November 2009 and I’m in a new restaurant on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles called Animal....
View ArticleHow Marco Pierre White’s White Heat launched a culinary revolution
MPW was the first of the rock ’n’ roll chefs, and many followed in his flaming footstepsMatt Tebbutt remembers exactly where he got his copy. “I found it in Whiteleys in Bayswater,” the chef and TV...
View ArticleAngus Steakhouse seeks help from landlords as Covid curbs threaten future
Restaurant chain asks KPMG to negotiate rent concessionsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageAngus Steakhouse, the chain of restaurants beloved of London tourists, is asking its...
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