Letter: A photographic reminder of Muhammad Ali’s kindness to my father
My father, Jack Achilles, was the head chef at Isow’s restaurant in Brewer Street, Soho, when Jack Solomons, a regular customer, promoted the fight in 1963 between Henry Cooper and Muhammad Ali, then...
View ArticleFormer London supper club enters world's best restaurant list
Clove Club in Shoreditch wins 26th place in global rankings, while Ledbury is 14th, and Heston Blumenthal’s Dinner drops to 45A British restaurant that began life as a supper club in an east London...
View ArticleHow to eat the best, for less: the UK's top 10 budget cafes and restaurants
After visiting over 1,000 restaurants for our Britain’s best budget eats series, Tony Naylor bids farewell to the column by sharing his tips on how to dine memorably for under £10, and whittles down...
View ArticleWill home delivery kill the restaurant trade?
Increasingly, people are opting to eat takeaways at home instead of going out, but savvy restaurateurs are adopting services such as Deliveroo to keep ahead of the game It’s a Tuesday night, there’s...
View ArticleRestaurant Ours, London: ‘not my idea of fun’ – restaurant review
The menu comes across like girlie dude food: insubstantial and InstagrammableTom Sellers exploded on to the capital’s dining scene like a cocky comet, opening his much-praised Restaurant Story (yes,...
View ArticleMassimo Bottura, the 'poet' chef with the best restaurant in the world
The Italian has topped the list of the world’s best restaurants with a trademark combination of tradition and fantasyMassimo Bottura once believed he had reached the peak of his culinary success in...
View ArticleSosharu: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
Sosharu bills itself as a relaxed bar, but the cooking is so precise and poised that it deserves your full attentionSosharu, 64 Turnmill Street, London EC1 (020 3805 2304). Meal for two including...
View ArticleTop restaurant in Japan closes after diners get food poisoning
Investigation after 14 people complained of diarrhoea and stomach pains after eating at Michelin-starred Kita Kamakura Saryo Gentoan A Michelin-starred restaurant in Japan has been closed temporarily...
View ArticleMagic out of mould: inside the world’s wildest restaurant | Jordan Kisner
In an age when chefs are regularly compared to artists and philosophers, Magnus Nilsson is among the world’s most renowned. But is the simple act of cooking ever worthy of such veneration?Magnus...
View ArticleGunpowder, London E1: ‘There isn’t a theme, unless it’s “What’s from India...
Gunpowder is new and fresh – and cares ‘A home-style Indian restaurant in Spitalfields” seems a self-deprecating (and mildly inaccurate) way for tiny Gunpowder to describe itself. It’s way more than...
View ArticleFlank at the Cow, Brighton: restaurant review
A lustily written menu can’t deliver on all its promises – but enough well-executed dishes signal good things to come…Flank at the Cow, 97 Dyke Road, Brighton BN1 3JE (01273 772370). Meal for two,...
View ArticleIs it last orders for restaurants?
A wave of new internet startups aim to do for eating out what Airbnb did for travel accommodation and Uber for taxis, with diners eating in chefs’ own homesLast weekend, with a certain amount of...
View ArticleHow a ‘grotty rundown pub’ became the UK’s best restaurant
The Sportsman in Seasalter, Kent, has topped the 2016 National Restaurant awards and its chef/patron is ‘gobsmacked’. So what’s on the menu?Related: Restaurant review: The Sportsman, Seasalter, KentThe...
View ArticleNorn, Leith, Edinburgh: ‘It makes me want to gasp OMG OMG, like a teen...
No matter what fish, fowl or foraged fungus turned up on the day, it would issue from Norn’s kitchen transformed into something ravishing There’s a moment when you realise you’re in the hands of a...
View ArticleSeaweed, salt and soil: how ‘terroir’ cooking put local flavour on the plate
Chef Stephen Harris once described the Sportsman as a ‘grotty boozer by the sea’. Last week it was voted restaurant of the year. Harris reveals how the use of local produce has transformed...
View ArticleSanto Remedio, London: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
Does expertise or flavour make the best Mexican dish? No matter – this Shoreditch restaurant is high on both22 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3DY. Mostly no reservations, except for large parties who...
View ArticleSinger-turned-chef Kelis pops up in London restaurant
In a collaboration with chef duo Le Bun, Kelis Rogers turns her talents to food after training at Cordon BleuIn a cramped kitchen off London’s Leicester Square, Kelis Rogers is shredding herbs into a...
View ArticleThe struggle is ce-real: how Kellogg’s killed the hipster breakfast trend
For $7.50 a bowl, the brand’s new cereal cafe is a last-ditch attempt to milk what’s left of the millennial trend that epitomizes gentrification and consumer cultureMonday was a big day for America....
View ArticleFive stars – says who? My trouble with TripAdvisor | Marina O’Loughlin
Ever been fooled by a rave restaurant review? Marina O’Loughlin has – and that’s just the start of her problems with the siteIt was in a small seaside town in Croatia that my dislike of TripAdvisor...
View ArticleRussian soup for the soul: how cooking helped me love again | Boris Fishman
Novelist Boris Fishman shunned his heritage – until a fiery internship in the kitchen of a New York restaurantIn 2014, a Russian restaurant named Moscow57 opened near my apartment on New York’s Lower...
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