Interview
James Cross, Lake Road Kitchen
We talk to the head chef at the Lake Road Kitchen, Ambleside.
We talk to the head chef at the Lake Road Kitchen, Ambleside.
After a successful series of supper clubs and events, the chef Tunde Abifarin has announced his modern, 'pan-African' pop-up concept Farin Road will take up permanent residence at the independent Tani Modi cafe in Edinburgh next month.
The Native narrative advocated by Ivan Tisdall-Downes – which is basically eat the view – has been promoted by other chefs, but few restaurants can match food and setting more harmoniously than this out-of-the-way restaurant (with a couple of rooms), on the Hereford-Worcestershire border. As a whole it breathes ‘nature’ and after almost a decade at various sites in London, feels like a homecoming for Tisdall-Downes and his business partner Imogen Davis.
From the independently minded Mill Road to decades old dining institutions, Cambridge has an excellent selection of restaurants - you just need to know where to look. Here’s our pick of the best places to eat out in the historic city.
There’s good eating to be had along the Bury New Road in Prestwich, says local resident and food and travel writer Clarissa Hyman.