The Mexican food wave sweeping across Britain | Suze Olbrich
Tacos are a street food favourite, but more authentic Mexican restaurants are popping upReturning from Mexico, a land whose food heritage is Unesco-protected, travellers share tales of life-changing...
View ArticleMichel Roux to give thousands in back pay to Le Gavroche chefs
Christmas bonus for kitchen staff as restaurateur makes up for sub-minimum wage pay, saying it was not intentionalThe former MasterChef host Michel Roux Jr has begun reimbursing staff who were paid...
View ArticleAs a waitress, I work tirelessly for tips – it’s what keeps me out of poverty...
Many in my profession cannot make ends meet with our wages alone. We rely on people’s good grace – so missing out on service charge feels like daylight robberyI was recently paying my bill at a...
View Article'I am happy that you have come to eat my food' – festival celebrates refugee...
Restaurateurs in Strasbourg are opening up their kitchens to refugee chefs – and the customers are flooding in tooSyrian spinach pie, Afghan savoury rice, Tibetan dumplings - just a few of the dishes...
View ArticleThe Crown, Burchetts Green, Berkshire: ‘A family affair’ – restaurant review...
Paterfamilias Simon Bonwick is in the kitchen, while several of his nine children – yes, nine, and all as smilingly scrubbed as Von Trapps – work the roomWe’re pootling along winter-sun-dappled roads...
View ArticleWant to know what it's like to be a woman in a boy's club? Ask any waitress
Too often, bosses side with chefs as front-of-house staff are easier to replace and are lower in the hospitality hierarchy At law school, lecturers love to remind their students that they will be...
View ArticleThe Laughing Heart, London E2: ‘The only good news from 2016?’ – restaurant...
This is drinking food: massive, in-yer-face flavours, with an unabashed and unstinting use of salt and fatFun is such an under-rated quality in a restaurant. When I think about where I want to go for...
View ArticleThe Holy Birds, London: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
A hip new chicken joint opens in Shoreditch. How wrong could it go? Let Jay count the ways…The Holy Birds, 94 Middlesex street, London E1 7EZ (020 3610 0185). Meal for two, including drinks and...
View ArticleHarrods workers say company keeps up to 75% of restaurant service charge
Waiters and kitchen workers to take part in protest at Knightsbridge store calling for more openness about tips at 16 outletsHarrods has been accused of shortchanging its restaurant staff in the latest...
View ArticleBreddos, London EC1: ‘It isn’t Mexican or Tex-Mex food. It’s a chaotic...
The Yucatan-style sea bass is to subtlety what Trump is to interior decoration I mourned AA Gill by chain-reading his work, bingeing on interviews, restaurant reviews, travelogues: all fearless,...
View ArticleJamie Oliver to close six restaurants in 'tough market' after Brexit vote
Chef shrinks size of Jamie’s Italian chain in UK to focus on international launches and expansion of Barbecoa brandJamie Oliver is to close six of his Italian restaurants after tough trading and the...
View ArticleAquavit, London: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
Polished, self-satisfied and overpriced, Aquavit is a proper Nordic noir thriller but for all the wrong reasonsAquavit, 1 Carlton Street, London SW1Y 4QQ (020 7024 9848). Meal for two, including drinks...
View ArticleWho killed the curry house? | Bee Wilson
Why has Britain turned its back on its favourite food – and shut out the people needed to cook it? No one in Oli Khan’s family had ever lived in Scotland, or anywhere near it. But when, aged 23, Khan...
View ArticleSeven things in food to stay livid about in 2017
Artisan anything. Raw milk. All that pseudo-science. Just stop it nowGood news. Comfort eating dealt brilliantly with the horrors of 2016, though sadly the effect was only temporary. Once I’d eaten all...
View ArticleLuca, London EC1: ‘It’s an exciting mongrel marriage’ – restaurant review |...
‘The second outing from the team behind the Clove Club is a departure: this time, they’ve come over all Italian. Well, ish. They call it “Britalian”’I promised myself I would not use the words...
View ArticleThe 50 best breakfast places in the UK
Breakfasts in Britain are among the best in the world. Here – region by region – are the very finest places to start your dayContinue reading...
View ArticleJihwaja, London: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
Thoroughly modern Jihwaja, a new Korean joint, brings Jay out in raptures for its fabulously ‘filthy’ fried chickenJihwaja, 353 Kennington Lane, London SE11 5QY (020 7582 4680). Meal for two, including...
View ArticleRené Redzepi on Noma’s last supper – and what comes next
The decade’s greatest restaurant will serve its final meal next month. Head chef René Redzepi talks about his new restaurant that will again revolutionise cooking – Noma 2.0Click here to get the...
View ArticleA day in the life of Scott’s, Britain’s grandest restaurant
At Scott’s in Mayfair, the VIP diners arrive with bodyguards and the kitchen spends £45,000 on fresh fish every week. Jay Rayner goes behind the scenesClick here to get the Observer and the Guardian...
View ArticleDan Barber’s long-term mission: to change food and farming for ever
America’s philosopher chef won over a president to his vision of sustainability. And now he’s bringing it to BritainClick here to get the Observer and the Guardian for half priceFour or five mornings a...
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