Le Café du Marché, London EC1 – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin
‘The food, regularly changing and handwritten on a blackboard, is as unreconstructed as a garlic-breathed, whiskery kiss’It’s tricky eating really well outside major cities (and, London aside,...
View ArticleA trip to the Spotted Pig – Kanye West's favourite New York haunt
It’s a West Village gastropub that’s been open 11 years – but Kanye can’t keep away. What’s its secret? Our intrepid reporter dashed down there to test the atmosphere – and a devilled eggKanye West on...
View ArticleThe White Swan: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
You might hesitate on the doorstep of the White Swan, but step inside and you’ll find this is no ugly duckling300 Wheatley Lane Road, Fence, Lancashire (01282 611 773). Meal for two, with wine and...
View ArticleParis match: Australian restaurants imitate overseas success stories
Some Australian restaurateurs are looking to French and US favourites for more than just inspiration Restaurateur Jason Jones is upfront about where he got the idea for his latest restaurant Entrecôte,...
View ArticleChai Wu, London SW1 – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin
‘If your idea of sex appeal is a hard-faced, Versace-clad rinse, then this is the place for you’I used to work in Knightsbridge. Harrods was my corner shop, simply because, if you wanted a pint of milk...
View ArticleLands End at Sunborn: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
Aboard the Lands End, Jay finds little to save his dinner from being a total washout. Still, the view was good…Royal Victoria Dock, London E16 (020 3714 8111). Meal for two, including drinks and...
View ArticleBarcelona bar toasts experience by hiring waiters aged over 50
Entrepanes Díaz seeks to hire waiters with experience who see service as a profession, bucking local trends for low pay and young staff“After four and half years without work it was unbelievable....
View Article10 of the world's coolest restaurants bars
From a modern diner in an old chapel to a white-washed cabinet of curiosities decorated with 10,000 animal bones, Gestalten’s new book, Let’s Go Out Again features some of the most unusual and...
View ArticleMan burned while praying over 'sizzling' Applebee's fajitas cannot sue, says...
Hiram Jimenez sustained burns in 2010 after hearing a loud sizzling noise and proceeded to knock the plate into his lap and injure himself pushing at the tableA man who burned himself while bowing his...
View ArticleBacon festival: morality, gluttony and the correctness of mixing sweet and...
Sydney plays host to a 12-week bacon festival at Cuckoo Callay in Newtown. Its organisers decided a celebration of organic, Aussie bacon was needed after discovering that Australia reportedly imports...
View ArticleThe Man Behind The Curtain, Leeds – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin
‘If a chef can put a silky foam of potato laced with puffed wild rice on top of an elaborate chocolate dessert and have you laughing out loud as you fight over it, he’s doing something very right’There...
View ArticleBlacklock: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
If you dither over making your menu choices, Blacklock is the place for you. It’s a chops-only restaurant…24 Great Windmill Street, London W1. No booking. Meal for two with drinks and service: £70In...
View ArticleThe best restaurants in Tokyo and Kyoto – chosen by Japan’s top chefs
These Japanese chefs work at some of the most exciting restaurants in the country – including two listed in Asia’s 50 Best Restaurants 2015– but where do they go to eat and drink when they’re off duty?...
View ArticleExtreme-aged steak: the gourmet world of meat with mould on
Chefs are pushing the boundaries of beef by hanging meat for ever-increasing periods. The resulting steaks are sensational – but a little goes a very long wayYou know where you stand with steak, right?...
View ArticleNo feminism please – we’re TripAdvisor | Christina Fowler
When I mentioned a restaurant owner’s sexist behaviour my review was taken down until all ‘political’ language had been removed. Is this really 2015?Most Sundays my husband and I take a drive in the...
View ArticleSilo, Brighton – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin
‘If I’d eaten the whole Jerusalem artichoke starter, I could have probably hover-propelled myself home. There’s eco for you’You won’t see any bins at Silo, but you will spot many a curiosity. The vast...
View ArticleRaby Hunt: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
Raby Hunt is the tiny but miraculous first restaurant of James Close, who abandoned golfing ambitions to cookThe Raby Hunt Restaurant, Summerhouse nr Darlington, Co Durham (01325 374 237). Meal for two...
View ArticleOn my radar: Wilko Johnson’s cultural highlights
The ex-Dr Feelgood guitarist and songwriter on medieval architecture, the poetry of William Blake, Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the power of the bluesWilko Johnson was born John Peter Wilkinson on Canvey...
View ArticleThe OFM 50: the 50 hottest places, people and trends in food
Observer Food Monthly’s favourite things, all in one place: from the best chef in the Outback to Cumbria’s most followed shepherd and brilliant Chinese buns in Paris. Plus why it really is the year of...
View ArticleBacon festival: morality, gluttony and the correctness of mixing sweet and...
Sydney plays host to a 12-week bacon festival at Cuckoo Callay in Newtown. Its organisers decided a celebration of organic, Aussie bacon was needed after discovering that Australia reportedly imports...
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