One restaurant has been a part of our family. Now we mourn its passing | Jay...
We measured out the landmarks of our lives at London’s Y Ming. So long, and thanksMy family has suffered a great loss. We will still have our memories, of course, each one suffused with a warm glow....
View ArticleClaridge’s to part ways with chef after rejecting plan for all-vegan menu
Mayfair hotel says it respects Daniel Humm’s plant-based vision but it ‘is not the path we wish to follow’The five-star Claridge’s hotel in Mayfair has lost its chef after it rejected his vision for an...
View ArticleBrutto, London: ‘The exceedingly good Italian we didn’t know we needed’ -...
The name means ugly, but Brutto’s dishes are a handsome, precise rendition of the Florentine trattoriaBrutto, 35-37 Greenhill Rents, London EC1M 6BN (020 4537 0928). Starters £7 – £12.50; mains £13.75...
View Article‘You can’t run a team on empty’: how the restaurant staff meal is changing
Restaurant workers once lived on coffee and cigarettes. Now more chefs are cooking for one other, making food good enough to end up on the menuNaturally, you would assume chefs eat well at work. These...
View Article3D-printed steak, anyone? I taste test this ‘gamechanging’ meat mimic | Zoe...
Marco Pierre White is championing Redefine Meat’s products, but do they live up to the hype?Across four major cities – London, Amsterdam, Berlin and Tel Aviv – a new meat was born, containing precisely...
View Article‘I don’t blame customers for getting annoyed’: a coffee house owner on life...
Anas Zein Al-Abdeen owns a chain of four Middle Eastern coffee houses around Birmingham. But, the 40-year-old says, while customers are plentiful, staff are another matterAnas Zein Al-Abdeen doesn’t...
View ArticleBrook’s, West Yorkshire: ‘A startlingly good modern brasserie’ – restaurant...
It’s come sailing through a storm and a pandemic, no wonder Brook’s in Brighouse is looking on the bright sideBrook’s, 6 Bradford Road, Brighouse, West Yorkshire HD6 1RW (01484 715284). Small plates...
View ArticleThe Star Inn at Harome: Michelin-starred restaurant 'reduced to ashes' – video
One of northern England's best-known restaurants has been engulfed in flames after its thatched roof caught fire. More than 40 firefighters were called to the Michelin-starred the Star Inn at Harome,...
View ArticleMichelin-starred the Star Inn at Harome ‘reduced to ashes’ by fire
Owner says North Yorkshire restaurant ‘won’t be open for a while’ after blaze breaks out in thatched roof A Michelin-starred restaurant in a 14th-century thatched inn has been “reduced to ashes” after...
View ArticleHow to eat: charcuterie
This month, How to Eat is grazing at a meat board. Should it contain cheese? Is there a place for ‘soft charcuterie’? Can that board ever be a plate or slate?Had you taken a random sample of 200...
View ArticleThe Star Inn at Harome: police treating restaurant fire as arson
Investigators believe blaze at Michelin-starred pub in North Yorkshire was started deliberatelyA fire that reduced a Michelin-starred restaurant in North Yorkshire to “ashes” is being treated as...
View ArticleSchnitzel Forever, London: ‘A total crowd-pleaser, without crowds’ –...
Breaded and fried foods are the good sort – and Schnitzel Forever is a good idea done very wellSchnitzel Forever, 119 Stoke Newington Church Street, London N16 0UD (020 7419 0022). Starters £7-£10,...
View Article‘Greasy spoon’ cafes close doors as today’s diners shun fry-ups
With tens of thousands of traditional cafes shutting down or being repurposed as coffee shops and brasseries, is it really the end for the all-day breakfast? Bonnie’s cafe in St George, Bristol, was...
View ArticleUnalome by Graeme Cheevers, Glasgow: ‘Self-consciously ambitious’ –...
Might it bring a Michelin star back to Glasgow? Jay Rayner isn’t sure he caresUnalome by Graeme Cheevers, 36 Kelvingrove Street, Finnieston, Glasgow G3 7RZ (0141 501 0553). Three courses à la carte...
View ArticleFranco Manca owner reports profits ahead of pre-pandemic levels
The Fulham Shore, which also owns the Real Greek, says return of office workers has boosted tradingThe owner of the Real Greek and Franco Manca restaurant chains has said that business is booming and...
View ArticleWant to see the world’s worst pizzas? Step this way | Jay Rayner
The Random Restaurant Twitter feed shows that mini chip fryer baskets and terrible food photos are a planet-wide phenomenonIt’s a familiar image. There’s a well-stacked burger: domed bun, a couple of...
View Article‘It dances in your mouth’: why Americans are eating more cilantro than ever
The US has embraced an herb that is a staple of cuisines from India to Vietnam Just in time for the holidays, Chipotle has released its own cilantro soap. It is a joke, because cilantro tastes soapy to...
View ArticleStaff shortages: small restaurants forced to offer £1,000 sign-on bonuses
Jobs site says ‘new phenomenon for the hospitality industry’ shows no sign of abating as Christmas loomsIndependent restaurants are being forced to offer hefty sign-on bonuses of £1,000 or more for...
View ArticleAndi Oliver: ‘I let my daughter start cooking, then I take over. It annoys her’
The chef, broadcaster and singer on breaking her legs, the pain of reading Enid Blyton as a child and why she bit a policemanBorn in London, Andi Oliver, 58, fronted the band Rip Rig + Panic with Neneh...
View ArticleThe 10 foodie things that saw me through 2021
From perfect fish pie to the power of food as a gift – here are some of the things I’ve been grateful for this yearI ate the most delicious and original dinner of 2021 at the Black Bull in Sedbergh,...
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