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Sydney's top restaurants open kitchens to train indigenous chefs
Three-year course aims to add Aboriginal flavours to Australia's restaurant sceneAt the Purple Goanna cafe in inner-city Sydney, a fillet of crocodile was slowly poaching in a wattle seed cream...
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My top 10 restaurant meals in Italy
After a decade in Italy, the Observer's Rome-based correspondent Tom Kington lists his 10 most memorable meals in the country, ranging from a simple calzone in Sicily to a five-course restaurant...
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Blog: A taste of Africa in Paris
Paris is a melting pot of African communities, cultures and, of course, cuisines. Our blogger takes us on a whistle-stop tour of her favourite African restaurants in the French capitalThis blogpost...
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Dividing the bill: a splitting headache
The social pitfalls and pratfalls of dividing a restaurant bill will always be with us. What's your solution?It's one of the most infuriating sentences uttered at a restaurant table. You forgo starters...
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Restaurant: Garfunkel's
It's not fast, it's not cheap and it's not tasty – so why do so many people still willingly pay to eat this stuffHave you been to a Garfunkel's before? (Or is that a Harvester?) In any case, as a...
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Jay Rayner: People who take ages to choose in restaurants just don't like food
If you have a proper appetite, menu choices are simple. And it only takes about 90 secondsI fully understand that making life choices can be tricky: what career to pursue, so you don't end up trying to...
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Restaurant review: Rita's Bar & Dining
To some Rita's is little more than a jumped-up fried-food joint. To others it's a celebration of US classics…Rita's Bar & Dining, 33-35 Stoke Newington Road, London N16. Meal for two, including...
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Restaurant: AG Hendy & Co Home Store Kitchen, Hastings
Yes, it's contrived, expensive and not a little pretentious, but it's hard not to be charmed by photographer and food writer Alastair Hendy's labour of love by the seaHastings is a curious town. Get...
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Restaurant review: The Red Duster, Isle of Wight
The Red Duster's menu, featuring Marmite potatoes and chicken liver with peanut butter, simply doesn't workThe Red Duster, 37 High Street, West Cowes, Isle of Wight (01983 290 311). Meal for two,...
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Nathan Outlaw: the chef who loves fish
He already runs Britain's only two-Michelin-starred fish restaurant in Cornwall, but now the chef is opening a seafood grill at one of London's most prestigious hotelsAsk what Nathan Outlaw's idea of a...
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Cheshire's 10 best budget restaurants
It's the Cheshire Food Festival this weekend but how does the county fare if you want to eat on the cheap? After a previous visit to Chester, Tony Naylor now picks his budget favourites from across the...
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Michelin leaks own restaurant guide a week early
List briefly posted on Michelin website shows return to fold for Tom Aikens and a fifth star for Heston BlumenthalIn an event now almost as predictable as the release of the official list itself, part...
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What the kitchen staff eat: recipes from the world's top restaurants
In restaurants around the world, there's one dish you won't find on the menu – the staff meal before service. What do top chefs feed their team?The Fat Duck, Bray, Berkshire, England: head chef Jonny...
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Let's start the foodie backlash
Food is the new sex, drugs and religion. Cookery dominates the bestseller lists and TV schedules. Celebrity chefs have become lifestyle gurus and cooking is referred to as a high art. Steven Poole has...
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Restaurant: Wapping Food, London E1
There's a new chef behind the stove at this London stalwart, and it looks as if he might be a bit of a star turnWhat an astonishing place the Wapping Project gallery is. This hulking Victorian brick...
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Restaurant review: The Heliot, London WC2
The Heliot has a theatrical setting at London's Hippodrome casino, but the menu lacks glamour and focusThe Hippodrome casino, London WC2 (020 7769 8844) Meal for two, including wine and service:...
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Hotel restaurants: five star food?
Is even the greatest hotel restaurant doomed to feel forever second best, or is the chance of an outstanding dinner slowly improving?I can't remember the last time I chose to eat in a hotel restaurant....
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Clare Smyth: 'Having a woman in the kitchen makes men behave'
Clare Smyth, Britain's first female chef to hold three Michelin stars, explains what it's like to work 16 hours a day in a testosterone-fuelled environmentClare Smyth is the head chef at Restaurant...
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Can you get thrown out of an all-you-can-eat buffet?
It happened to two men in Brighton recently, so I decided to try my luck in LondonIt takes special skills to get banned from an all-you-can-eat buffet, but that's what George Dalmon and Andy Miles...
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Restaurant: Honey & Co, London W1
It's not going to blow you away with its molecular wit, painstaking technique or dude food filthiness. But it's food you'd always be happy to eatThose of you who don't live in London might be happily...
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