Snakes on a plate: LA man arrested for tossing 13ft python into restaurant
Angered by the sushi eatery’s refusal to let him show smaller snake to customers, Hiroshi Motohasi returned with larger one as patrons fled in horrorA Los Angeles man has been arrested by police after...
View ArticleTasty, Glasgow G5: ‘The beef is so overcooked, you mourn the cow that died in...
A ‘Korean burrito’ is obese and clammy, with all the visual allure of a used nappy clogged with indeterminate vegetable matter; thanks to some mushy haddock, it has the fragrance of one, tooThe...
View ArticleMaray: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
In lesser hands, Maray could be a car crash, but as Jay finds to his surprise, it somehow steers a steady courseMaray, 91 Bold Street, Liverpool L1 4HF (0151 709 5820). Meal for two, including drinks...
View ArticleFish and clips: the Utah restaurant where waiters carry guns in their kilts
The kilts are a tribute to the Siebers family’s Scottish roots. As for the guns: ‘We believe in the second amendment. We’re making a statement to support that’ The first things you notice are the smell...
View ArticleJapanese police raid restaurant serving potentially deadly tiger blowfish liver
Chefs are banned from serving poisonous parts of the fish – which some brave diners are still willing to eat despite riskA members-only Japanese restaurant serving tiger blowfish liver, a banned and...
View ArticlePharmacy 2: ‘The food isn’t really the point at this Damien Hirst revival’ –...
It looks like an over-decorated gallery caff, every nuance of loucheness syringed out of the place. You can almost smell the Hirst artworks increasing in value To this lassie from the sticks, the...
View ArticleThe free-from restaurant boom that's cashing in by stripping back
Whether it’s gluten, sugar, nuts, eggs, waste or even carbon, today’s most successful restaurants care as much about what’s off the menu as what’s on itRemember when vegetarian restaurants were a...
View ArticleTapas 37: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
From the alarm to the locked loo, few things went right for Jay at Tapas 37, but he was left with only one regret…Tapas 37, 37 Ecclestone Square, London SW1V 1PB (020 3489 1000). Meal for two,...
View ArticleA slice of pizza nostalgia in São Paulo, Brazil
In this most Italian of Brazilian cities, Castelões pizzeria serves staples that constitute a trip down memory lane for localsTo eat at Cantina Castelões is to visit a São Paulo that otherwise now...
View ArticleMarram Grass Cafe review: from caff to place of culinary pilgrimage –...
Would I be so forgiving in a designer joint in Mayfair? Of course not. But I also know where I’d rather be The approach to this, one of Wales’s most recently celebrated restaurants, does not whisper,...
View ArticleWatching Zac fail the taxi test, I couldn’t help but feel for him | Peter...
It’s easy to laugh at the London mayoral candidate’s knowledge of the city he wants to run. But none of us like to be put on the spotLike everyone else, I have been endlessly re-watching the video of...
View ArticleFood for thought: the art of eating with Olafur Eliasson | Marina O’Loughlin
Best known for his giant sun at Tate Modern, artist Olafur Eliasson is also passionate about food – chiefly, feeding hungry assistants at his vast Berlin studio. Marina O’Loughlin pulls up a pewOn my...
View ArticleU.P. at Dominique Ansel Kitchen: restaurant review
Seven courses of puddings from the man who brought us the Cronut? If only it had been as sweet as that soundsU.P. at Dominique Ansel Kitchen, 137 Seventh Avenue South, New York (dominique...
View ArticleMark McQuater: 'With Revolution, it was time to have a revolution'
In two years, CEO Mark McQuater closed every vodka bar in the student chain, reopening them with a new brand, products and a place on the stock market. He tells us how he did itOnce famous as a student...
View ArticleEdible cutlery company wants us to eat our way out of plastic pollution
The spoon tastes like a cracker and its manufacturer hopes to expand into forks and chopsticksPlastic waste covers our oceans and landfill. The past 70 years of plastic waste have resulted in pollution...
View ArticleDinner for one – now that’s my kind of date | Nell Frizzell
Solo dining is a singular joy. Alone, you can eat what you want, when you want, as fast as you wantI was recently joined on a bench in O’Connell Street, Dublin, by a man in a sludge-green coat and...
View ArticleIt’s time for restaurants to get rid of tips | Jay Rayner
The system of service charges is crass, inefficient and demeaning. Let’s end itI am a control freak and as such completely unsuited to my job as a restaurant critic. Every time I visit a restaurant I...
View ArticlePitt Cue, London EC2: ‘One mouthful of their sausages, and all I hear is...
This isn’t a barbecue joint, it’s a restaurant that barbecues: and a thunderingly good oneQueueing and ’cue-ing: neither of these is high up my list of top activities. I went to Tom Adams and Jamie...
View ArticleBurger Shop by a Rule of Tum: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
The town has a breed of cattle named after it, so it makes sense that Hereford should also have a decent burger jointBurger Shop by a Rule of Tum, 32 Aubrey Street, Hereford HR4 OBU (01432 351 764)....
View ArticleThe art of service: secrets of the maître d’
A great meal is about much more than food – and it’s the people who work front of house who know how to make you feel specialFred Sirieix, general manager, Galvin at WindowsRelated: I'm a waiter, I...
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