El Pastór, London: restaurant review
If you think the food of Mexico is all mushy avocados and soft tortillas, this Borough taqueria will prove you wrong El Pastor, 6a Stoney Street, London SE1 9AA. Walk-ins only. Meal for two including...
View ArticleGreat restaurants in Lisbon: readers’ tips
Lisbon is teeming with fresh (and cheap) seafood, tapas and exotic dishes from Portugal’s colonial past. But it’s not just the food – our readers are wowed by the ambience and views, too• Enter our...
View ArticleKuch, Bristol: ‘A fine place to be’ – restaurant review
Dishes are sweet from pomegranate and date molasses, tangy from tamarind, pungent with dried lime or intensely smoky from the grill. Or all the above at the same timeEven the most assiduously laid...
View ArticleThe smoking ban 10 years on: what’s changed on page and screen?
Legislation that restricted smoking at work and in public in the UK now alters how readers and viewers perceive the fictional tobacco habitIn July 2007, it became illegal to smoke in enclosed public...
View ArticleRoth Bar & Grill, Bruton: restaurant review
Hauser & Wirth’s Somerset gallery looks amazing. The bonus is that the cooking is more than a match for the artThere are some restaurants which, given all the other things they have going for them,...
View ArticleOn my radar: Jack O’Connell’s cultural highlights
The actor on a book of ancient wisdom, the effortless cool of Fat White Family, hurling, asparagus and Ken Loach’s I, Daniel BlakeBorn in Alvaston, Derby, in 1990, Jack O’Connell made his film debut in...
View ArticleAlain Senderens obituary
Leading French chef and one of the founders of the nouvelle cuisine movementAlain Senderens, who has died aged 77, was one of a small group of French chefs whose nouvelle cuisine transformed European...
View ArticleWho wants to share their plate? Definitely not me
You can hardly escape sharing plates when you eat out – but who gets the last bite? Time to embrace your inner glutton …And so, it’s farewell once more to the asparagus season. Personally, I’m...
View ArticleHenrietta, London WC2: ‘An antidote to meaty, fatty, salty bro food’ –...
I wonder if they’re deliberately targeting a female audience? A magazine editor gets in touch, laughing, to tell me about a new “clean-eating”-type mini-chain. They had initially let customers choose...
View ArticleThink you know what fish is in your sushi? Think again
Exotic tropical species being mis-sold to British customers who can’t tell their mackerel from their herring, research showsSushi bars and shops are regularly mis-selling exotic species of fish to...
View ArticleThe Garden Café, London: 'A lovely new space' – restaurant review
Visitors to London’s Garden Museum will be impressed to see how its new café is bedding inThe Garden Café, The Garden Museum, Lambeth Palace Road, London SE1 7LB. (020 7401 8865). Meal for two,...
View ArticleHow to crowdfund a restaurant empire
When award-winning chef Gary Usher was turned down by the bank for a loan to open a second restaurant, he set up a crowdfunding campaign. Now he’s about to launch his fourth restaurantAll restaurants...
View Article10 of the best restaurants in rural Spain: readers’ travel tips
From the mountains of northern Spain to the beaches of Andalucía and across to the Balearics, our readers have discovered fantastic places to eatThe picturesque medieval village of Pedraza, in Segovia,...
View ArticleThe Cottage In The Wood, near Keswick, Lake District: hotel review
The talented new chef at this restaurant with rooms offers exquisite meals with molecular and new Nordic elements, but the basics are spot on, tooProviding butter at a spreadable temperature is a skill...
View ArticleThe Ned, London EC2: ‘It’s Harrods food hall crossed with Vegas’ – restaurant...
The Ned, Soho House’s new £200m flagship hotel, boasts all of nine restaurants. Are they any good? Our award-winning restaurant critic finds outThe only possible reaction when first walking through the...
View ArticleShould you tip in a restaurant regardless of quality?
My partner says we should never leave a tip for bad food – but it wasn’t the server’s faultEvery week a Guardian Money reader submits a question, and it’s up to you to help him or her out – a selection...
View ArticlePlaquemine Lock, London: ‘celebration of Louisiana’ restaurant review
Jacob Kenedy has written a love letter to Cajun and Creole cookery from a pub in IslingtonPlaquemine Lock, 139 Graham Street, London N1 8LB (020 7688 1488). Meal for two, including drinks and service:...
View ArticleBullet-hole decor: the Brooklyn bar on the frontline of the gentrification wars
A venue advertising its ‘bullet-ridden’ wall has caused outrage in Crown Heights, with residents accusing the owner of insensitive stereotypingDespite rapid gentrification, the realities of routine...
View ArticleXu, London W1: ‘Honestly: swoon’ | Marina O’Loughlin
‘Good Peking duck is one of my desert island dishes, but this shortrib boots that into the sea’Sitting in Xu’s narrow, dark-panelled interior, I fancy myself not in slightly grubby lower Rupert Street...
View ArticleTiko Tuskadze: from Georgia with a passionate love of food
For the restaurateur, watching her grandmother and aunt cook instinctively and exquisitely was the inspiration for her own careerTiko Tuskadze grew up in Tbilisi in the Soviet republic of Georgia as an...
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