Copenhagen restaurant exceeds Noma to attain three Michelin stars
Company awards trademark honour to Geranium, giving Noma, voted world’s best restaurant four times, two starsDenmark’s famed Noma restaurant may have been voted the world’s best four times, but it is...
View ArticleUpstairs at Trinity, London SW4: ‘No one seems to have sent the casual memo...
I’m guessing communal tables are the very definition of casual, but they give me the gibbering fear Every time another pundit announces the death of fine dining – yeah, yeah: me, too – you can feel a...
View ArticleThe Flitch of Bacon: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
It’s in the name but not on the menu… which is a disaster if you are Jay. But luckily the rest of the menu is excellentThe Flitch of Bacon, Little Dunmow, Essex (01371 821 660). Meal for two, including...
View ArticleIs the Sunday roast over – or just getting posher?
The £7 Wetherspoons roast dinner will be served for the last time on Sunday, and sales of roasting joints are declining. But in gastropubs and restaurants, Sunday lunch is the new Saturday nightWhen...
View ArticleGalvin Hop, London E1: ‘Sausage rolls and pork scratchings and scotch eggs,...
I could get used to having a hot dog as an amuse-bouche if it weren’t for fear of my arse taking over Britain It’s a clever menu that makes you want to order everything on it. It’s an even cleverer one...
View ArticleIn-N-Out Burger beefs up its promise of antibiotic-free meat
The burger chain is joining a small group of fast food restaurants committing to using antibiotic-free meatIn-N-Out Burger has long set itself apart with its refusal to use frozen meat, microwaves and...
View ArticleNative: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
This restaurant says it’s all about foraged foods. It isn’t, says Jay, but that doesn’t matter as the cooking at Native is excellentNative, 3 Neal’s Yard, London WC2 (020 3638 8214). Meal for two,...
View ArticleOn my radar: Ellie Rowsell’s cultural highlights
The Wolf Alice leader on photographer Lee Miller, the music of Alex G and the best diner in HollywoodEllie Rowsell was born in London in 1992. In 2010, she won the Holloway arts festival singer...
View ArticleBest places to eat and drink in Japan: readers’ travel tips
It might not be hard to find great sushi in Tokyo, or a gem of a saki bar, but where would you go for the best okonomiyaki pancakes, takoyaki octopus balls, gold ice-cream or udon noodles?I’ve eaten...
View ArticleMoscow restaurant draws on collective Soviet nostalgia – and adds a salad bar
Named after communal housing in the days of the USSR, Kommunalka features an authentic menu, homemade vodka and a washing lineThe first thing to know about the new Kommunalka restaurant in Moscow is...
View ArticleFrenchie, London WC2: ‘This is no insouciant little bistrot’ – restaurant review
The food is mostly excellent and occasionally sensational. But always tiny The fact that it takes superhuman effort to score a booking at Greg Marchand’s foamingly reviewed Frenchie in Paris means that...
View ArticleJapan's food artisans: in pursuit of perfection
The secret to Japanese food is specialising in one thing and doing it perfectly. Forever. In an extract from his new book Rice, Noodle, Fish, Matt Goulding profiles four masters of their tradeThere are...
View ArticleRök: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
With its Nordic notes and smoky edge, Rök serves up a menu full of flavour and verve – and one of Jay’s favourite mealsRök, 26 Curtain Road, London EC2 (020 7377 2152). Meal for two, including drinks...
View ArticleSam Dastyari treats Senate to rave review of Campbelltown kebab house – video
During a speech on Halal certification, the senator turned food critic delivers a 10 out of 10 review of a kebab snack pack. After visiting the King Kebab House in Campbelltown with members of the...
View ArticleLe Cochon Aveugle, York: ‘Everything makes us grin like eejits’ – restaurant...
‘As the beautiful meal plays out, it all starts to make a Through The Looking Glass kind of sense’Art is, of course, subjective, but if I were choosing a restaurant on the basis of what was hanging on...
View ArticleBurnt Truffle: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
By crowdfunding this neighbourhood bistro, lucky Wirral residents have gained a kitchen that can do no wrongBurnt Truffle, 106 Telegraph Road, Heswall, Wirral CH60 OAQ (0151 342 1111). Meal for two,...
View ArticleThe OFM 50: what we love about the world of food in 2016
From Heston Blumenthal’s sweet shop to the policeman turned pie-maker, here (in no particular order) are 50 of Observer Food Monthly’s favourite thingsWith rock god hair, skintight jeans and...
View ArticleEric Ripert: the Buddhist Michelin star chef who changed my life
As food writer Joshua David Stein prepares to convert by taking the Vow of Refuge, he checks back in with Eric Ripert, the man who inspired himThe back wall of Le Bernardin, one of the world’s top fine...
View Article10 of the best restaurants in Bordeaux
A new wave of chefs has swept into Bordeaux, propelling the city’s restaurants up France’s culinary pecking order. And they’re serving up at decent prices tooBordeaux may be the world’s capital of...
View ArticleEviction for last family run restaurant on the Strand as asset manager seeks...
Salieri, which has has traded in London for 40 years, fears Aviva Investors is forcing it out to make way for big chainLondon’s famous thoroughfare the Strand is in danger of losing its last family-run...
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