OFM awards 2014 best Sunday lunch: runners-up
Readers choices of roasts and more from across the countryHawksmoorA previous winner. You may have to undo your belt a notch after their roast rump of longhorn beef with luxe trimmings including bone...
View ArticleOFM awards 2014 outstanding achievement: Shaun Hill
I will give up when my liver gives out after nearly 30 years of Michelin-starred success, chef Shaun Hill isnt ready to quit the kitchen just yetSome people have a talent for exuding contentment. Chef...
View ArticleOFM awards 2014 best restaurant: runners-up
Readers favourites from around BritainBocca di LupoThe inspired option to order dishes in a smaller plate size means that you can try a wide range of Jacob Kenedys brilliant regional Italian food.12...
View ArticleOFM awards 2014 best cheap eats: runners-up
Great food for under £15 a head: OFM readers best value choices from around the UKFranco MancaSourdough pizza with delectably chewy crusts and simple, well sourced toppings and daily specials. Eight...
View ArticleOFM awards 2014 best ethical restaurant: runners-up
Whether its for the fair traded food, charitable giving or community involvement, these are readers choices from across the countryGrain StoreVegetables are the star of the show at chef Bruno Loubets...
View ArticleQuaglinos, London SW1 restaurant review
The new Quags is tricked out like a Busby Berkeley set and the foods retro, too Create your new Quaglinos legend, the website says, portentously. My own legend was that I once tumbled down its famous...
View ArticleThe Nag’s Head: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
Heavy plates aside, the Nag’s Head makes light work of some English classics. Jay parks his horse and tucks inHaughton, Cheshire (01829 260 265). Meal for two, including wine and service: £70All...
View ArticleBeth Cullen Kerridge and Tom Kerridge: art, food and the trouble with bankers
Beth Cullen Kerridge put her career as a sculptor on hold to support her husband’s struggle to become a Michelin-starred chef. Now the tables have turnedBack in 2005 artist Beth Cullen Kerridge and her...
View ArticleTop 10 budget restaurants and cafes in Oxford
After you have admired its dreaming spires, where can you eat well for under £10? Tony Naylor updates his 2010 budget eats guide to Oxford, including the city’s new street food sceneYou cannot eat well...
View ArticleIs the Blue Nile, TripAdvisor’s 'best' restaurant in London, really that good?
A modest Eritrean cafe in Woolwich recently shot to the top of TripAdvisor’s London rankings. Such listings are nonsense – but it is a fine place to eatI had lunch in London’s “best” restaurant today....
View ArticleSpring, London WC2 – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin
‘At night, it’s seductive and dreamy. During the day it’s chillier: as pale, precious and studied as Dita Von Teese’There’s something dreamlike about Spring. The gauzy drapes and beautiful light...
View ArticlePorky’s: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
Imagine running out of pork. Jay visits Porky’s to see if its Memphis-style BBQ can join his ‘strategic reserve’18 Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 (020 7428 0998). Meal for two, including drinks and...
View Article40 Maltby Street, London SE1 – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin
‘The food that issues from the postage-stamp-sized kitchen is all pretty much faultless: not a beat is missed’Of all the dishes we have at 40 Maltby Street, it’s the most unprepossessing that makes us...
View ArticleEstela: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
A restaurant that hides its food under piles of greens is good enough for Barack Obama, but how about for Jay? 47 East Houston Street, New York (001 212 219 7693). Meal for two, including drinks and...
View ArticleHow restaurants cut corners: embalmed shrimp and headless beer
It’s not just Olive Garden. Many restaurants save costs with a little sleight of handOlive Garden’s unsalted pasta water is just the beginning of the chamber of horrors that is the modern restaurant’s...
View ArticleAny last requests? A gallery of Last Bites cinemagraphs
A special selection of of cinemagraphs from the popular Last Bites series. All cinemagraphs by photographer Emma Lee and assistant Lizzie Mayson, animated by Mateusz Karpow, from an idea by Rachel...
View ArticleMichelin chef Cesar Ramirez accused of racism at Brooklyn restaurant
Ramirez, who heads up Chef’s Table at Brooklyn Fare, accused of racial slurs and offering Asian customers the worst cuts of meat in a lawsuit filed by former employeesThe chef at popular New York...
View ArticleSan Francisco’s restaurant scene: no such thing as a bad lunch
Tis the season to stuff your face, and where better than San Francisco, where it’s impossible to eat badly, says Guardian restaurant reviewer Marina O’Loughlin in her guide to the city’s fabulous food...
View ArticleMalik’s Tandoori: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
Media types west of London flock to Malik’s, but is it really so great, or just a local curry house, much like yours?High Street, Cookham, Berkshire (01628 520085). Meal for two, including drinks:...
View ArticleOn my radar: Elif Shafak’s cultural highlights
The Turkish novelist on Ruby Wax’s writing, Jake Gyllenhaal and Rene Russo in Nightcrawler, listening to the radio and the magic of Finnish band NightwishThe Turkish author Elif Shafak has spent her...
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