Wagamama owner to raise £175m because of Covid struggles
The Restaurant Group’s revenues fell 57% in 2020 on back of hospitality restrictionsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Restaurant Group, the owner of the Frankie &...
View ArticleHidden joys of the UK's holiday spots: seafood in Yorkshire and Scotland |...
We’ll soon be able to venture beyond our local park … and to help us, the Observer has launched a guide to Britain’s hidden treasures, starting with Jay Rayner’s hunt for tasty morsels in unlikely...
View ArticleCooking recipes from Real Fast Food is like having Nigel Slater by your side
Warm, generous, unshowy… No wonder the cookbook became an instant classicOne day in 1992 the phone rang at Books for Cooks, the famed specialist bookshop in London’s Notting Hill. It was answered by...
View ArticleBeer gardens sold out for months as English pubs count the days to April...
Customers, keen to once again eat and drink outside with friends, have overwhelmed venues with reservations Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageBritons are planning to “eat,...
View ArticleWild garlic, nettles and berries … how foraging went mainstream
Once it was the domain of upmarket chefs. Now thousands are collecting ingredients when out for a walkLiz Knight once stopped short of sending her daughter to primary school with nettle omelette in her...
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 ArticleNSW restaurant fined $100,000 after patron died following allergic reaction...
Restaurant owner’s daughter admits she forgot hummus contained sesame seed paste or tahiniA Wollongong restaurant that served up a deadly plate of hummus has been fined over $100,000 after the New...
View ArticleTaiwan official urges people to stop changing their name to 'salmon'
Dozens of people have changed names to include ‘gui yu’ to take advantage of sushi promotionA Taiwanese official has pleaded with people to stop changing their name to “salmon” after dozens made the...
View ArticleMadhur Jaffrey’s Indian Cookery was a guide to another world
The actor-turned-cookery writer saved us from terrible British versions of curry and taught us how to roast and grind spicesIn 1982 the food writer and novelist Sue Lawrence was in the depths of early...
View ArticleFrom kala bhuna to shatkora curry – let's all get a taste for Bangladesh
Most of Britain’s Indian restaurants are run by Bangladeshis. So why don’t they promote their cuisine, asks restaurateur and poet Ahsan AkbarIn 1810, Hindoostane Coffee House in Marylebone became the...
View ArticlePlans for pub and restaurant Covid checks unworkable, says industry
Lobby groups raise practical concerns and say the checks would not be appropriate or necessaryCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe UK pub and restaurant industries have...
View ArticleCovid checks at pubs 'could nudge young people to get vaccine'
Exclusive: UK government insiders believe certificates may tackle hesitancy in younger age groupsCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageMaking Covid certificates compulsory to...
View ArticleNigella Lawson’s How To Eat is a feast of favourite recipes and high camp
The glorious sense of indulgence is matched by a life-saving sense of humourA still-warm yorkshire pudding is placed in a bowl. It’s darker than I might like, but then my oven sometimes runs hotter...
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 ArticleThe restaurant putting workers in charge – and inequality on the chopping block
A rotating menu of Filipino, Moroccan, and Mexican cuisine underpins an ambition to uplift the food industry labor structureAt Understory, a new restaurant in Oakland, diners can sample Kare Kare...
View ArticleCook dinner with Robert Carrier and you’ll need butter, cream, wine and quite...
Great Dishes of the World was a fabulous book full of all the richest flavoursThe late Robert Carrier loved butter. He loved butter the way small children love puppies. Early on in his masterpiece,...
View ArticleRestaurants and pubs see surge in bookings for planned reopening
Venues prepare to be busy from 12 April if coronavirus data allows outdoor hospitality to reopenCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageRestaurants and bars with outdoor seating say...
View ArticleCovid forces two of Barcelona's oldest restaurants out of business
Restrictions in city contrast with those in Spanish capital as Agut and Can Soteras shut for goodCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTwo of Barcelona’s oldest restaurants have...
View ArticleThe rice of the sea: how a tiny grain could change the way humanity eats
Ángel León made his name serving innovative seafood. But then he discovered something in the seagrass that could transform our understanding of the sea itself – as a vast gardenGrowing up in southern...
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