Pomona’s, London W2: ‘It’s pretty much a distillation of everything that sets...
‘The decor is as bright as a Venice Beach morning: it makes my fillings jangle’Another day, another west London restaurant – specifically, Notting Hill et environs – aimed at women who dream of being...
View ArticleGiro d’Italia: 10 great restaurants en route, and places to watch the race
The 100th Giro, which started this week, races from Sardinia to the Dolomites. For cycling correspondent Colin O’Brien, the journey is also a gastronomic pilgrimageFollowing a grand cycling tour as...
View ArticleLondon Shell Co, Paddington: restaurant review
The simple, well-priced menu and short but exciting wine list make it plain sailing for this barge-based restaurantLondon Shell Co, The Prince Regent, Regent’s Canal at Paddington, London W2 6EP...
View ArticleKākano, the Christchurch cafe reintroducing Maori people to their own cuisine
In New Zealand, a community cafe serving traditional Maori food – including smoked eel spines and foraged herbs – is building a strong following across all communitiesMuttonbird, sea plants and eel...
View ArticleA wine romance: veal and vermouth in a traditional Turin watering hole
It may be a simple tavern, but Caffè-Vini Emilio Ranzini has a history of doing the basics wellIn a backstreet behind Turin’s teeming Porta Palatina market, “Vini Ranzini”, as locals call this famous...
View ArticleTulum restaurant with $600 menu criticized for being 'not for Mexicans'
Acclaimed Danish restaurant Noma opens pop-up with high prices in area where minimum wage is less than $5 a day and half the population lives in povertyIt’s a pop-up in paradise. Noma, the Danish...
View ArticleDon’t bottle it – be brave and ask for tap water | Andy Dawson
Most people don’t know they can request free drinking water in bars. It’s leading to mass consumption of plastic water bottles and environmental disasterBack when I was a kid, being made to drink tap...
View ArticleSwan at Shakespeare’s Globe, London SE1: 'What’s British about tortellini?’ –...
The history, the view, the critically aclaimed chef: what’s not to love?Restaurants frequented by tourists are hardly ever beacons of gastronomic pilgrimage. There are exceptions, of course – London’s...
View ArticleIgnore the haters: David Beckham is pitch perfect in Arthurian romp | John Crace
Beckham delivers his ridiculous lines in ridiculous style in Guy Ritchie’s latest, as Labour springs a leak and May loses BorisMondayAfter getting lost on a west London industrial estate following Tory...
View ArticleNeil Perry restaurant issues black customer receipt printed with racial slur
Burger Project outlet in Melbourne dismisses staff member over insult, while Perry contacts customer to apologiseA staff member from a Burger Project restaurant in Melbourne has been fired after using...
View ArticleJust do it: the experience economy and how we turned our backs on ‘stuff’
New figures show we are continuing to spend less money on buying things, and more on doing things – and telling the world about it online afterwards, of course. From theatres to pubs to shops,...
View ArticleHigher Buck, Waddington, Lancashire: hotel review
This pub, in one of Lancashire’s prettiest villages, is up there with the finest dining in the lauded Ribble valley. The modish makeover is no match for the food, but the classy guest rooms areA stream...
View ArticleRadici, London: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
Chef Francesco Mazzei has always been wildly brilliant, but he has never before been good value. Lucky us…Radici, 30 Almeida Street, London N1 1AD (020 7354 4777). Meal for two, including drinks and...
View ArticleIn search of Burmese fish noodle soup in Yangon
Myanmar’s unofficial dish, mohinga, is going upmarket – and nowadays you don’t even have to get up early to find itBurmese days: in the footsteps of George OrwellIn Myanmar, a land with more than 130...
View Article10 questions for the 'world's most feared' restaurant critic Jay Rayner |...
The Observer critic, MasterChef judge, musician and comic – whose review of the Paris restaurant Le Cinq went viral – is bringing his one-man show to Australia1. In light of your blistering review of...
View Article‘I’m a mad collector of glug glug jugs. Whenever I see one I don’t have, I...
Antique refrigerators, Elizabeth David’s pestle and mortar, and the quirkiest objets d’art fascinate chef Mark HixUntil last December, I’d always lived in Shoreditch in London. Moving to Bermondsey was...
View ArticleCampania & Jones, London E2: ‘It’s not perfect, but I simply don’t care’ –...
‘Everything is as fresh and salty and real as a saunter down the Spaccanapoli’In a back room, Maria Grazia is making pasta on a long table against a backdrop of log piles, a roaring, wood-burning stove...
View ArticlePlot, London: restaurant review | Jay Rayner
As the gentrification wave reaches Tooting in south London, a new diner makes itself at home in the local marketPlot, Unit 70-72, Broadway Market, Tooting High Street, London SW17 0RL (020 8767 2639)....
View ArticleSir Peter Blake: ‘All a country has is its culture; the rest is infrastructure’
On the eve of Sgt Pepper’s half-century, the pop artist shares stories of his classic album sleeve, snubbing Warhol and why he hasn’t paid a bill in Mr Chow for 50 yearsI meet Sir Peter Blake in Mr...
View ArticleNo tip for you: restaurants move toward hospitality-included menus
As the industry tries to make pay more fair, efforts to end the tipping habit have been complicated by the impending raises in minimum wage in many states“Hmmm,” was the considered opinion of a member...
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