Top 10 budget restaurants, cafes and street-food stalls in Bristol
Bristol is famous for its music and culture, and it has a vibrant food scene to match. Updating our first cheap eats guide to the city, we pick 10 more great restaurants to eat for under £10The...
View ArticleBritain's best fish'n'chip shops
Quayside in Whitby is officially Britain's best fish'n'chip shop – but it had to fight off strong competition from a new wave of top-quality chippiesBritain has a new fish'n'chip shop of the year. On...
View ArticleBlanca, New York: restaurant review | Marina O'Loughlin
'There are (I think) 24 dishes in all: each a couple of mouthfuls, each gobstopping in its simple complexity… I'm dazzled and vaguely hysterical'To understand what's happening in this...
View ArticleRoux at Parliament Square: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
A MasterChef is now in the kitchens of Roux at Parliament Square. But the dull place still needs a makeoverRoux at Parliament Square, RICS, Parliament Square, London SW1 (020 7334 3737). Meal for two:...
View ArticleJamie Oliver closes Union Jacks restaurants
TV chef's company cites challenging climate for the decision to close branches in Holborn, Chiswick and WinchesterJamie Oliver's attempt to revive traditional British grub in his unashamedly...
View ArticleForget crispy duck: regional Chinese food is taking over Britain
After decades of Cantonese food adapted to sweet western tastes, British diners can now try bold, spicy specialities from Sichuan, Hunan, Shanghai and GuizhouKai Wang and her friends like to sniff out...
View ArticleDon't mourn the sun going down on Jamie Oliver's Union Jacks empire
The chef has many successes on his plate, but his attempt to reinvent the pizza with all-British toppings was not one of them. Now he should concentrate on what he does bestJamie Oliver is a...
View ArticleBlackfoot, London EC1: restaurant review | Marina O'Loughlin
'With a menu as gorgeous as this, each dish winking at you like a saucepot, who needs an interior designer?'Pork: what a thing of wondrousness it is. Traded like money, eaten in reverence, reviled as...
View ArticleWright Brothers Spitalfields: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
When Jay headed to the Wright Brothers' new outpost in Spitalfields, the last thing he expected was to catch crabs8-9 Lamb Street, London E1 (020 7377 8706). Meal for two, with drinks and service:...
View ArticleHeston Blumenthal's Dinner closed temporarily due to norovirus outbreak
Chef says he is 'erring on the side of extreme caution' after two diners and three staff were found to have winter vomiting bugFood poisoning has a habit of repeating on you, as Heston Blumenthal– top...
View ArticleTop 10 budget restaurants and bistros in Paris
Paris is home to some of the world's finest – and priciest – restaurants. But a new breed of affordable places to eat means the budget traveller needn't feel hard done by. We pick 10 places where you...
View ArticleFood waste solutions: cuttlefish testicles and pigs' heads
A new exhibition highlights chefs' ideas about avoiding waste, including dishes such as mackerel scratchings and bin-end pilaff• Chefs' recipes to beat food waste – in picturesWaste is the most...
View ArticleChefs' recipes to beat food waste - in pictures
A new exhibition offers some extreme ideas for reducing food waste, with chefs demonstrating how to make tasty meals from potentially unappetising ingredients ignored by other cooks
View ArticleThe Do Something challenge: Tim Dowling takes on butchery
Splitting trotters, boning loins, removing ribs – how would a meat novice cope with a crash course in pork butchery?• Five of the best butchery coursesThis article is a preview from the February issue...
View ArticleThe Lockhart, London W1: restaurant review | Marina O'Loughlin
'The whole thing is outrageously lovely, the stuff of sticky dreams and abandoned diets'The small, black, cast-iron baking tray and its contents look innocuous enough. Glossy liquid laps around the...
View ArticleLanes of London: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
Has the Marriott Hotel taken a wrong turning? Its senseless street food concept leads diners up a blind alleyThe Marriott Hotel, 140 Park Lane, London W1 (020 7647 5664). Meal for two, including drinks...
View ArticleAmerica's waiters, barbers and bellhops haven't had a raise since 1991 |...
Tipped workers in the US make $2.13 an hour as base pay. The very people who feed us often can't feed themselvesToday is 13 February. For millions of Americans, it's an especially important day. Across...
View ArticleSticky Walnut, Hoole, Chester: restaurant review | Marina O'Loughlin
'If I could clone Sticky Walnut, I would. I'd plonk its like the length of the land, replacing every Frankie & Benny's and La Tasca and Café bloody Rouge'I have no time for people who slag off...
View ArticleThe Gunton Arms: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
At the Gunton Arms they cook hunks of meat above a roaring fire… It makes Jay want to rip his shirt off and howlCromer Road, Norfolk (01263 832 010). Meal for two including drinks and service: £120The...
View ArticleThe Mash Tun, Aberlour: hotel review
A whisky-themed pub with rooms offers stunning views, a great location for walkers and fishermen, and fine if unadventurous local food. But it's the drams that make it particularly memorableSpeyside is...
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