Vegetable cocktails: time to drink your greens?
Trend for fresh vegetable juices moves to alcoholic drinks, using quintessentially British garden flavours such as pea, parsnip, mushroom and even celeriac They were once staple items on the...
View ArticleThe end of the line: why we should stop queueing for restaurants
No-bookings restaurants are a giant middle finger to diners. Here are five reasons why hungry people should stop standing in the streetNewsflash: apparently we’re fed up with queueing for tables in...
View ArticleVerdi’s, London E1 – restaurant review
‘The small menu makes my fingers tingle: this is proper. Breads, pasta and pizzas are made fresh in-house every day’Iam old enough to remember when a night out in a restaurant always meant an Italian....
View ArticleJinjuu: restaurant review
When Jay Rayner went to review Jinjuu, he expected fried chicken – what he got was an avalanche of lawyers’ letters 15 Kingly Street, London W1 (020 8181 8887). Meal for two, including drinks and...
View ArticleThe 40 best restaurants in Britain
Forty chefs open up their address books for Observer Food Monthly and reveal their favourite places to eat, from Inverness to Paignton and from Michelin-starred restaurants to a pie and mash shop1...
View ArticleBurritos with everything as Britain falls for Mexican food
Number of Mexican restaurants across UK has risen by 71% in the last year, with chains such as Wahaca and Barburrito overtaking burger businessesThe UK is riding a Mexican culinary wave with burrito...
View ArticleFrench toast: the pudding of 2015?
Critics are, all of a sudden, falling over themselves to praise the age-old snack/dessert. Why has it been thrust into the foodie-limelight – and where are the best places to try it?This is not just...
View ArticleYou're the only person who will notice if you're dining alone. So enjoy it |...
We chronically overestimate how much others notice our social faux pas, and underestimate how much fun we’ll have aloneOne of the signature pleasures of life in New York City is the freedom to drink...
View ArticleChop Bloc, Chelmsford, Essex – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin
‘If you come for anything other than meat: mistake, big mistake’We’re wandering around the chain-stored commercial centre of Chelmsford, and I’m literally vibrating with terrible, metrocentric food...
View ArticlePercy & Founders: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
It’s supposed to represent the future of the pub, but Percy & Founders is heading down an evolutionary dead end1 Pearson Square, London W1 (020 3761 0200). Meal for two, including drinks and...
View ArticleGreene King sales rise slowed by Scotland's drink-driving crackdown
Total sales rise by 6.3% but pub, restaurant and brewery chain hit by tougher Scottish drink-driving legislationTougher rules on drink-driving in Scotland have weighed on sales at pub and restaurant...
View ArticleKoya, Sienna and Racine: recipes from restaurants we have loved and lost
A London noodle bar is the latest restaurant to close at the height of its popularity. We ask why successful businesses shut – and offer three recipes to recreate dinners pastNews last week that a...
View Article10 of the best budget restaurants in Venice
With the Biennale opening a month earlier this year, to coincide with Milan’s World Expo, Venice is expecting a visitor overload. But that doesn’t mean they have to resort to overpriced, underwhelming...
View ArticleThe Ivy Chelsea Garden, London SW3 – restaurant review | Marina O’Loughlin
‘The food is a wodge of stodge, a school dinner in regal drag’Oh, the fragrant beauty of this place. Permatanned restaurant mogul Richard Caring’s Caprice Holdings has come up with a fantasy cross...
View ArticleFlat Three: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
A Japanese-Skandi restaurant isn’t a terrible idea. So it’s a pity the food at Flat Three doesn’t live up to the dreamFlat Three, 120-122 Holland Park Avenue, London W11 (020 7792 8987). Meal for two,...
View ArticleOn my radar: Thea Gilmore’s cultural highlights
The singer-songwriter on the return of Blur, the loneliness in Edward Hopper’s paintings, BBC TV satire W1A and the inspirational atmosphere of LiverpoolSinger-songwriter Thea Gilmore grew up in Oxford...
View ArticlePlate spinning: the smart chef's secret ingredient
Food that’s pointing in a particular direction is more appealing – which is why restaurants can charge you extra for itIn what must be food’s biggest contribution to science since Newton’s apple, a...
View ArticleInver, Strathlachlan, Argyll and Bute, Scotland – restaurant review | Marina...
‘Everything we eat is eye-opening, enlivening, as bracing as a dip in the loch’The drive to this unusual restaurant, open only a few weeks, is enough to make this Scottish exile weep into her hip...
View ArticleDogs could join people at restaurant patios, as New York senate passes bill
While restaurants can choose whether to allow pets – who must be leashed and with their owners at all times – not everyone wants to dine with man’s best friendNew Yorkers out for brunch at a...
View ArticleThe secret life of Australia's top chef
Ben Shewry’s Melbourne restaurant Attica is admired all over the world over – but success did not make him happy, and he nearly walked away from the kitchen. Until he was saved by a fisherman, his love...
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