Feature Published 14 March 2025
Where to eat if you don't want to spend £400 on sushi
A visit to Britain’s most expensive sushi restaurant got food writer Hilary Armstrong pondering. Do you have to spend hundreds to get good sushi?
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Feature Published 13 March 2025
To eat: Anna Haugh's recipe for baked bean can soda bread
Dublin native and chef-owner of Myrtle Anna Haugh shares her recipe for a traditional Irish soda bread, with one key store cupboard utensil.
Feature Published 07 March 2025
Chefs to watch: Maria Close, Katie Austin and Kyu Jeong Jeon
Hospitality’s #MeToo movement gained new ground last month, first sparked by an awards ceremony that, aside from Emily Roux, sidelined female chef talent into a meandering pre-recorded video that landed like a patronising pat on the head. It was swiftly followed by a flurry of headlines on the question of sexism in kitchens. There’s no doubt that rising through the ranks ...
Feature Published 07 March 2025
To eat: Stosie Madi's recipe for Parkers Arms' mackerel and tomato pie
Pies may be thought an obvious pub stalwart, but at Parkers Arms they achieve new heights. The pastrywork alone is worth the journey to the rural Newton-in-Bowland pub, but if you can't get there, here is chef-owner Stosie Madi’s recipe for a mackerel and tomato pie.
Feature Published 06 March 2025
First look: The Knave of Clubs, Shoreditch
After making his name at Stratford restaurant Allegra over five years and following it up with a spell at The Midland Grand Dining Room, Irish chef Patrick Powell has teamed up with hotshot partners James Dye (The Camberwell Arms) and Benjy Leibowitz to take on a Victorian pub in Shoreditch. We take a first look.
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.
