The best exotic nostalgia boom: why colonial style is back
Echoes of empire can be seen everywhere from TV’s Indian Summers to Dishoom, London’s hottest new restaurant chain. But is this rose-tinted take on Britain’s colonial past erasing a bloody history?On...
View ArticleKitty Fishers, London W1 – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin
‘Why am I not raving with the rest of ’em? Well, the whole thing feels like a house party I’m not quite invited to’If you’re at all interested in restaurants, chances are you’ll have heard of Kitty...
View Article1847: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
1847 is an independent restaurant in Manchester serving imaginative and delicious vegetarian food. So why is it half empty?58 Mosley Street, Manchester (0161 236 1811). Meal for two, including drinks...
View ArticleTop 10 budget restaurants and cafes in Birmingham
Birmingham’s diverse range of cuisines can be savoured without spending big bucks. Here – updating his 2009 guide to the city – Tony Naylor picks 10 inspirational indies where you can eat well for...
View ArticleNew Aumbry to open on Roadhouse site in Manchester
While Mancunian music lovers are mourning the loss of the legendary Roadhouse, the venue is to be turned into a new venture for Mary-Ellen McTague, whose much-loved Prestwich restaurant, Aumbry, closed...
View ArticleBó Drake, London W1 – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin
‘I’d prop up the bar for hours on a promise of the brisket bao: a Big Mac for the beardy generation’There was a piece in the US foodie press recently suggesting that New York was getting bored with the...
View ArticleFood For Thought, London's iconic vegetarian restaurant, set for closure
The well-loved Covent Garden eatery will in June draw the curtains on over 40 years of business as owners fall victim to capital’s spiralling rent pricesOne of London’s most iconic vegetarian...
View ArticleGentrification is ripping the heart out of communities
Urban gentrification is transforming the capital but neighbourhoods still need chippies and cheap Chinese and Indian restaurants to preserve characterOnly the most fervent of cheerleaders would claim...
View ArticleBig trouble in little Chinatown as rent rises force restaurant owners out
Londoners and tourists have enjoyed the oriental food and ambience in this city centre enclave since the 1950s. Now the red lanterns may soon vanish for everJon Man points at the busy KFC a few doors...
View ArticleThe lamplighter dining rooms: restaurant review
Sunday lunch should not be an elegant affair. Nor inventive. Now pass the roast potatoes, would you?High Street, Windermere (01539 443 547). Sunday lunch for two, including drinks and service: £70It’s...
View ArticleFood for Thought: the last vegetarian gasp of alternative Covent Garden
The food might all have been orange and tasted vaguely like butternut squash, but the closure of this landmark Neal Street restaurant after four decades is another blow to independent LondonThe Covent...
View ArticleGood fry day, or how we deep-fried Easter
The creators of Fry Hard – a pop-up restaurant celebrating Easter by serving only deep-fried food – are attempting to prove that everything tastes better in batter. We went to their kitchen to test the...
View ArticleMarco Pierre White Wheeler’s of St James’ Rib Room and Oyster Bar –...
‘Marco, I’ve stuck by you but this sausage factory of mediocrity has done it for me’Dear Marco, I’ve loved you for such a long time. It was your book White Heat that did it: you – smoking, always...
View ArticleThe new dinner lady: 10 years on, can an Ottolenghi chef prove Jamie Oliver's...
Nicole Pisani used to work in a celebrated London restaurant; now she cooks couscous and preserved lemons for 500 children at primary school in Hackney. They love it – but questions remain over whether...
View ArticleBubba Gump Shrimp Co: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
The Bubba Gump Shrimp Co was always going to be an easy target. So why did Jay decide to show it some mercy?At the top of the stairs up to the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co by London’s Piccadilly is a sign. It...
View ArticleThe foodie traveller on … Singapore’s Peranakan cuisine
At Candlenut restaurant, chef Malcolm Lee is preserving the deeply flavourful cooking of his ancestors – long-ago immigrants from China to SingaporeWhen a posse of famous chefs craved a true taste of...
View ArticleTop 10 museum cafes and restaurants in Paris
Many of Paris’s museum cafes and restaurants now offer a lot more than coffee and cake. You can now expect great food and magnificent art – and some take their cuisine so seriously they merit a visit...
View ArticleLouisville’s famous Twig and Leaf: are diners landmarks worth preserving?
Faded decor, empty seats, low quality food – this once-popular Louisville diner has fallen into serious decline. But is it worth saving as a heritage landmark?At a Louisville intersection, a wiry neon...
View ArticleNicholas Gilman on Riviera del Sur, Mexico City
This old-school Mexican cantina in the Colonia Roma district is back in business after a 21st-century makeover that ensures its appeal spans the generationsThe cantina has been an essential element of...
View ArticleWould you pay for your dinner before you've eaten it?
Tock, the ticketing system that launched in the US last year, is coming to the UK next month. It protects restaurants from no-shows – but will diners really pre-pay for restaurants as they do for the...
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