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Great food AND beer
Make the most of the bank holiday weekend with our picks of the best places for beer and great food
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Oli Brown and Ruth Leigh to open Updown, a restaurant with rooms in Kent
Duck Duck Goose chef-founder Oli Brown and partner Ruth Leigh – daughter of the esteemed Rowley – are opening a country restaurant with rooms this July, just outside the coastal town of Deal in Kent.
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First look at Native: a terrific celebration of English food
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.
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An inspector reports back on The Portrait
A visit to the National Portrait Gallery for a cultural fix and to view the photography exhibition by Paul McCartney brought back fond memories. I missed the swinging sixties having arrived in London in 1969 but lived through the 70s, a decade riddled with strikes and high inflation. Hang on - are we talking about today?
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From plot to plate: Restaurant Kitchen Gardens
The kitchen garden, whether measured in acres or pots, has become an essential part of any chef’s toolkit. As August’s abundance reaches its peak, Tessa Allingham investigates
