Top 10 budget restaurants in Cardiff
Cardiff offers great places to refuel on the cheap. Updating his 2010 guide, Tony Naylor picks 10 spots where you can eat for under £10A deli and cafe across two facing sites in Castle Arcade, Madame...
View ArticleMagnus Nilsson, author of the Nordic Cookbook, on working in the wilderness
The chef behind one of the world’s most remote restaurants – Fäviken in Jämtland, central Sweden – draws his inspiration from the fantastic produce of the regionIt is not for everyone, living out here....
View ArticleHow to set up your own neighbourhood restaurant
Beccy Massey and Sam Leach transformed a Bristol corner shop into popular restaurant Birch last year. Rather than wait for their dream to come true, they took every step to ensure it became...
View ArticleGerman Gymnasium: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
It was a gym, but there’s little that’s German about this vast new restaurant. And the food’s a long way off a ‘perfect 10’German Gymnasium, 1 King’s Boulevard, London N1 (020 7287 8000). Meal for two...
View Article‘The chef started crying’: the Toronto critic who can make or break a restaurant
As Canada’s most notorious food critic, Chris Nuttall-Smith carefully guards his anonymity – but it can be hard when your picture is hung in the kitchenLate one Monday evening in the fall of 1998, AA...
View ArticleGoodbye to the Stockpot – the last great Soho cheap eatery
This ‘utterly, ineffably London’ restaurant, purveyors of moundfuls of broccoli cheese and bargain set meals, was like something out of a Muriel Spark novel. Now it’s gone, victim of a mix of Instagram...
View ArticleBellita and Aron’s Jewish Delicatessen, Bristol – restaurant review | Marina...
‘You can’t fling an organic parsnip in Bristol these days without hitting a fine little independent restaurant’Some places seem to exist on culinary ley lines, blessed with improbable numbers of...
View ArticleFlour & Ash: restaurant review
If there was a degree in the science of making perfect pizza, the boffins at this Bristol restaurant would ace itFlour & Ash, 203b Cheltenham Road, Bristol (0117 908 3228). Meal for two, including...
View ArticleThe best food they ate in 2015
Kebabs in Istanbul, sea urchins in County Cork, a sensational lobster pasta in London: top chefs and food writers share their favourite meals this yearRené RedzepiChef-patron, Noma, CopenhagenContinue...
View ArticleJay Rayner versus Instagram
Are social media’s food hits as good as they look? Our restaurant critic rates some of 2015’s most popular dishesIn the world of Instagram everything is delicious. Every heap of chickpeas is glossy and...
View ArticleThink before you ruin another restaurant outing with your complaints
The moment you complain to your waiter, you alter the very experience you are paying for. A restaurateur asks that we consider the kitchen before grumbling about the foodIn restaurants up and down the...
View ArticleAileen Hall obituary
Chief inspector of the Good Food Guide who became wine correspondent of the Guardian in the 1980sAileen Hall, who has died aged 85, was the deliciously sharp chief inspector of the Good Food Guide in...
View ArticleMove over, quinoa: sorghum is the new 'wonder grain'
The ancient grain originally from Africa has American chefs raving about its texture, taste and drought-resistance: ‘It fills your mouth and your stomach’Forget millet, quinoa and brown rice: there’s a...
View ArticleChipotle's not dead – there's just more for us brave souls who still want to...
When’s the best time to try Chipotle for the first time? After it sickens scores of Americans with various gastrointestinal ailments, obviously. Dave Bry reports from the frontlinesI just returned from...
View ArticleThe ‘gig economy’ brings with it a human cost | Stefan Stern
Deliveroo and other high-end takeaway delivery services might improve consumer choice, but low wages and little job security are the downsideSigns of progress in the labour market. Twenty-five years...
View ArticleStar Wars star tells of day he took Han Solo to Nigerian restaurant in Peckham
John Boyega says when he won his part as Finn in The Force Awakens, he took his co-star Harrison Ford to a popular joint in south London to celebrateIt is a restaurant far, far away from Harrison...
View ArticleBenedicts, Norwich: ‘I love a chef who gets jiggy with the animal fats’ –...
‘It was local wisdom, not the chef’s success on Great British Menu, that led me here, and I’m glad it did: it’s a little treasure’I’m not big on food telly. I’ll watch everything Nigella is in, but...
View ArticleOklava: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
It ticks all the boxes, and the young chef is a star in the making, but this new restaurant isn’t quite the finished articleOklava, 74 Luke Street, London EC2 (020 7729 3032). Meal for two, with drinks...
View ArticleStylewatch: which of the Camerons got the Sexy Fish dress code memo?
After Rupert Murdoch’s Christmas party ended at a decidedly debauched 9pm, the Tories decamped to Nancy Dell’Olio’s favourite restaurant. Who looked the part? Finally, finally, the Tories go to Sexy...
View ArticleSmokers win out over outside diners at some NSW pubs and bars: health groups
There have been reports that some New South Wales licenced venues have banned food in outdoor areas, allowing patrons to keep smokingNew anti-smoking laws covering outdoor dining areas could have made...
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