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Feature Published 28 February 2025

Unreserved: Jimi Famurewa on how the minimum spend trend is squeezing the spirit out of restaurants

To be a restaurant critic is to be a bruised veteran of the modern reservations system and the tangled politics of booking cancellations. It’s just one of hidden realities of the gig; the stressed, keyboard-tapping little figure hunched behind the curtain of the profession’s glamorously puffed-up public presentation. I have lost innumerable hours engaged in the weeks-long hokey-cokey of booking, ...

Feature Published 28 February 2025

To eat: Hafod cheddar rarebit and leek grilled cheese sandwich recipe

Maryann Wright of the charming Wright’s Food Emporium in Llanarthne lets us in on their recipe for a quick, easy and satisfying Welsh rarebit and leek grilled cheese sandwich.

Feature Published 25 February 2025

First look: The Brasserie at Saltmoore, Whitby, North Yorkshire

Not content with restaurants in York, his home village of Oldstead and neighbouring Byland, to say nothing of a thriving online business selling produce from his Yorkshire farm, Tommy Banks’ reach in God’s Own Country now extends to the coast. The chef has taken on consultancy duties at this new hotel on an 85-acre Victorian estate, re-fashioning the tired weddings-and-anniversaries ...

Feature Published 21 February 2025

An inspector's report on Best New Restaurant Skof

Winner of Best New Restaurant 2025, Skof was surveilled by four different inspectors over the course of last year through a mix of personal visits and Good Food Guide duties. The inspection report that follows comes from the Official Commission and offers a detailed flavour of the brilliance of Tom Barnes’ creation.

Feature Published 17 February 2025

First look: Bar Valette, Shoreditch

The Clove Club’s Isaac McHale brings his approach to a second Shoreditch venue, Bar Valette. We take a first look.

Feature Published 14 February 2025

COOK: Ashley Palmer-Watts' recipe for The Devonshire's sticky toffee pudding

Winner of our Best Value Set Menu Award, The Devonshire, give us the exclusive recipe for their much-loved set menu dessert, the humble sticky toffee pudding.

Feature Published 14 February 2025

DRINK: Timberyard's plum kernel amaretto sour

Winners of The Good Food Guide’s Drinks List of the Year 2025, Montrose and Timberyard offer a brilliantly left-field drinks program. Anna Sebelova leads the sustainable drinks production across both sites, here is her recipe for a low-waste plum kernel amaretto sour.

Feature Published 10 February 2025

40 under £40: Britain’s great value set lunches, part 2

Here are another 20 fantastic set lunch suggestions to complete our 40 Under £40 list. Click here to see our first instalment of 40 under £40 and be inspired to book that long overdue lunch with friends or family, or just to try somewhere new. Henri, Covent Garden Chef Jackson Boxer’s take on the Parisian bistro has had a blinder ...

Feature Published 07 February 2025

Unreserved: What’s the deal with drinking in restaurants, asks Jimi Famurewa

As Dry January draws to a close, Good Food Guide columnist Jimi Famurewa digests the seductive power of drinking while dining.

Feature Published 07 February 2025

DRINK: Lyla's recipe for a Samphire Martini

A visit to Best New Restaurant frontrunner Lyla begins in the endlessly elegant upstairs lounge of the Edinburgh townhouse. More seductive still is an ice-cold samphire martini to prelude Stuart Ralston’s exceptional seafood-forward cooking.

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