'Day without immigrants' protests close restaurants across the US
Day was part of a growing movement of strikes against Trump’s immigration policies: ‘We’re making a statement that this country is sustained by us’Diners in cities nationwide were greeted by locked...
View ArticleChop Chop, Edinburgh: restaurant review
Jian Wang’s Chinese restaurant is a shrine to the most perfect little dumplings… At a time of great political uncertainty it’s natural that we should search for the things that unify rather than divide...
View ArticleThe 5th annual OFM 50: what we love about food in 2017
From a revered French chef to Singapore’s salted eggs, Monica Galetti’s new restaurant to Japanese vending machines: 50 of Observer Food Monthly’s favourite things (in no particular order)Continue...
View ArticleMichelin men: Claude Bosi, Terence Conran and the return of Bibendum
Bibendum has been a London landmark for 30 years. Now, with its relaunch, it is up to chef Claude Bosi to bring the stars homeIn the gutted upstairs room of Bibendum on London’s Fulham Road, I’m...
View ArticleThe Wildebeest, Stoke Holy Cross, Norfolk: ‘It’s an age since I’ve come...
This excess, with its gels, soils, foams, is often conflated with haute cuisine Of all the jibes that eggs on Twitter like to lob at me, my favourite has to be “metropolitan liberal elite”. As a...
View ArticleBundobust, Manchester: restaurant review
Vibrant Indian food served with craft beer in a friendly communal space… Why has no one done this before?Bundobust, 61 Piccadilly, Manchester M1 2AQ (0161 359 6757). Meal for two, including beer:...
View ArticleTower Hamlets council rejects Time Out Market development proposal
Media organisation says it will appeal after plans for 17-restaurant site in Spitalfields are turned down following protestsResidents in east London have expressed relief after plans for a huge eating...
View ArticleNoma dishwasher becomes co-owner of world-famous Danish restaurant
Ali Sonko, who has worked in restaurant kitchen since 2003, gets share in business in ‘recognition of his hard work and enduring smile’A dishwasher described as the “heart and soul” of the world-class...
View ArticleWe grow it, we waste it, we dump it: fighting food waste one click at a time
With almost 4m tonnes of food from the commercial sector going to landfill, social enterprise Yume connects suppliers with restaurants and other buyers Australians eat more salmon than any other fish–...
View ArticleDishwasher becomes co-owner of Noma restaurant – video report
Ali Sonko, a dishwasher who has worked in world-class Danish restaurant Noma since 2003, has become co-owner of the business in ‘recognition of his hard work and enduring smile’. René Redzepi, the chef...
View ArticleUK's appetite for gourmet takeaway fuels restaurant delivery boom
Brands such as Deliveroo, UberEats and Just Eat buoyant as demand for home-delivered, restaurant-quality meals feeds £3.6bn industry“You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food,” the late celebrity...
View ArticleJames Cochran EC3: ‘A great chef. But not yet a great restaurateur’ –...
‘We’re made to perch at a not-very-congenial bar rather than the restaurant proper and left very much to our own devices. As Julia Roberts said in Pretty Woman: mistake, big mistake’James Cochran is a...
View ArticleMash Inn, Radnage, Buckinghamshire: hotel review
This pub with rooms is surrounded by Michellin-starred restaurants, but the food here is good enough to rival the famous names – and at a fraction of the priceI went to the Mash Inn with high hopes for...
View ArticleSkosh, York: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
A restaurant that riffs brilliantly on the flavours of Japan and the Middle East… Better jump on board now98 Micklegate, York YO1 6JX (01904 634 849). Meal for two, including drinks and service:...
View ArticleThe Faroe Islands’ first Michelin-starred restaurant
The 17-course Nordic tasting menu at Koks has put the remote, windy islands on the culinary mapIn the murky depths of Tangafjøður, not far from the Faroes’ capital, Tórshavn, the lobsters are famed for...
View ArticleRestaurant runaways: what happens when diners eat and flee?
A 120-strong group of food-lovers in Spain have perfected the art of dining and dashing without paying the bill. Other walkouts, however, haven’t been so slickIf the punishment fits their crime, a gang...
View ArticleBreid Amamoo obituary
My wife, Breid Amamoo, who has died aged 87, was an extraordinary woman who was at various times a restaurateur, counsellor and writer. She also spent many years doing voluntary work in my native...
View ArticleDeath threats and angry chefs – when restaurant reviews go wrong
Eating nice food for a living sounds great, but there are downsides: from being unmasked to finding out, after you’ve published a glowing review, that there were rodents in the kitchen. The UK’s top...
View ArticleGrapes of wrath: wine bar owners sue Trump over unfair competition
Khalid Pitts and Diane Gross file a lawsuit against Trump and Old Post Office hotel, asking Trump to resign or close establishment while in officeHow do you compete with a restaurant at Donald Trump’s...
View ArticleHow paella got punked – and the Valencian chefs trying to save it
Paella is the history of Spain on a plate, so why did aficionados have to start Wikipaella to protect it? In this extract from his new book, Matt Goulding heads for Valencia in search of the perfect...
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