Chef Sergi Blanco on Can Vallés, Barcelona
Every time the Michelin-starred chef visits Barcelona, this superb traditional restaurant is sure to get a visitA family member in Barcelona first took me to this restaurant about 10 years ago. She...
View ArticleWaitrose scraps free tea and coffee for cafe table-hoggers
Loyalty card holders grabbing a gratis hot beverage will have to buy a food item if they want to sit downWaitrose is scrapping a free-for-all which allowed loyalty card holders to drink free tea and...
View ArticleLive shrimp covered in ants, anyone? Noma's Japanese restaurant serves up a...
The world’s best restaurant has opened a pop-up in Tokyo and its still-twitching, slightly gruesome menu, has critics salivatingTokyo’s restaurants are celebrated for serving the freshest seafood on...
View ArticleChef April Bloomfield builds a restaurant empire on 'anal rustic'
The hard-driven British chef, whose restaurants include the Spotted Pig in New York and Tosca in San Francisco, has learned to let go of her perfectionism to pursue grander thingsApril Bloomfield grew...
View ArticleThe truth about Noma's live prawn dish
The Danish restaurant’s Japanese pop-up has hit the headlines for its ‘live’ seafood. Food writer Joe Warwick waited tables and tried the still-twitching crustaceanIt is just shy of 2am and I’m sitting...
View ArticleBirch, Bristol – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin
‘The place has already been colonised by regulars unable to believe their luck. And rightly so: I’d give my eye teeth to have this as my local’Everybody loves a good critical savaging. My colleague...
View ArticleRex and Mariano: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
Rex and Mariano know a lot about fish. Which is very good news for anybody who likes to get their hands on lunch2 St Anne’s Court, London W1 (020 7437 0566). Meal for two, including wine and service:...
View ArticleWhy 'best-restaurant' lists are nothing of the sort
We have just been subjected to yet another list of the UK’s supposedly best restaurants. It’s nice for chefs to be included in them – but do they actually help us decide where we should go and eat?...
View ArticleHeston's Fat Duck: at $525 per head does it really qualify as a 'pop-up'...
The term was once used for temporary shops that could stay only a short while due to things like the lack of a functioning loo out backA pop-up version of Heston Blumenthal’s the Fat Duck restaurant...
View ArticleGame of Thrones pop-up restaurant offers taste of Westeros
HBO hosts banquets in London over the Valentine’s Day weekend to mark the release of season four on DVDWatching Game of Thrones can be a tough task if you’re hungry – if watching painful deaths doesn’t...
View ArticlePortland, London W1 – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin
‘This is my kind of place; independent, great food and doesn’t charge like a rhino’I’m looking at the item in front of me with the kind of dilated-pupil, pulse-racing lust other women reserve for Ryan...
View ArticleWhy Giles Coren has got Birmingham’s food scene all wrong
The Times restaurant critic said Birmingham’s restaurants were ‘a bit rubbish’. The editor of Dine Birmingham begs to differ …On Thursday, there was a rerun of the media’s oldest food fight, starring...
View ArticleLe Canut et les Gones: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
Modelled on a classic working-class eatery, Le Canut et les Gones stands out in a city that takes food seriously29 rue de Belfort, Lyon (00 33 4 78 29 17 23). Meal for two, including drinks and...
View ArticleSouth Street Kitchen, Gillingham, Dorset – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin
‘For this part of the world, this place is as radical as a pontiff in stiletto-heeled pumps’I didn’t set out to review South Street Kitchen. Not at first; not even at second. I had a booking at another...
View ArticleNoma in Tokyo – in pictures
What happened when the world’s greatest restaurant moved half way round the world, just for a month? “There’s a huge chance of failure,” said head chef René Redzepi as Lisa Abend joined him behind the...
View ArticleWormwood: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
Rabah Ourrad is a musician turned chef – and at Wormwood his unusual and delicious menu has a beat all of its own16 All Saint’s Road, London W11 (020 7854 1808). Meal for two, including wine and...
View Article‘We need 140 live shrimp now!’: the inside story of Noma Japan
René Redzepi uprooted his award-winning restaurant from Copenhagen to Tokyo for a month. ‘There’s a huge chance of failure,’ said the chef as OFM joined him behind the scenes before the big openingThe...
View ArticleOne-star restaurant reviews show signs of trauma, linguists say
Online reviews of bad dining experiences show same linguistic traits as trauma victims, says US professor A bad meal out might ruin your night, but the ordeal could leave you traumatised too, according...
View ArticleGroup dinners are terrible. It's time we all admit it | Dave Bry
Once they get too big, you can’t talk to anyone, some people order more than all the others and no one can ever do the math. Let’s call it a nightYou might have read this week about the insane,...
View ArticleWhy we never get fed up of our favourite restaurants
Hunger for novelty is being blamed for the closure of another top eatery – Knightsbridge’s Racine – but the statistics suggest the majority of us troop to the same places every time we eat out. Perhaps...
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