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Is Veganuary still where it’s at? While fake meat sales continue to slide and regeneratively reared meat takes the spotlight, you’d be forgiven for thinking the annual campaign to cut out meat and dairy has lost some of its luster since it kicked off in 2014.
Consider yourself an adventurous eater? In lean, mean January, a Good Food Guide inspector makes the case for embracing offal more wholeheartedly.
The restaurant year generally ends, not with a bang or a whimper, but a prolonged, flailing frenzy. Sudden closures and rush-released openings offer a mixed picture of a twitchy industry; dining rooms roar and throb with paper-hatted Christmas party inebriates, blundering into storage cupboards on the way to the loos; WhatsApp groups called things like ‘Festive Dinner’ become inadvertent performance ...
Our Good Food Guide inspectors are a talented crew, stationed across Britain from the Highlands to Hereford, sending word on the most promising places to eat. Some have been inspecting for the Guide since the 90s, while others are young, hungry and delivering a fresh perspective. Regardless of age, their discerning eye and sharpness of appetite is universal. When they're ...
The grand, formal style of dining has been in retreat for years and no chef understands this better than Jason Atherton. Row on 5 is his reimagining of the genre, an entirely new approach to fine dining.
From parboiling potatoes on Christmas Eve to getting the rise right on the Yorkshires, Tommy Banks shares his tips for cooking Christmas dinner like a top chef.
Saturday 18 January 2025 Over lunch, listen to the husband and husband team in conversation with the Guide’s co-editor Chloë Hamilton discussing their careers in restaurants and why they ended up opening a bistro in Horsforth on the outskirts of Leeds. From hosting 90th birthday parties to importing wine, find out what makes Bavette the model of a perfect local ...
David Mabey recalls his time working for The Good Food Guide during the trailblazing 1980s, when ‘Real Food’ and ‘Modern British’ were the buzzwords of the day, and the talk was all about culinary revolution.
The first letters of each solution, taken in order, spell out the name of a Lancashire restaurant and its chef/proprietor.
In a challenging market, this newcomer is big, buzzy and full of confidence.
