Ynyshir’s iconic black paint job in 2021 has inspired a proliferation of darkly-painted, moodily-lit restaurants that come into their own on cold and dark winter nights. Here are our favourite restaurants in which to relish the glow of hospitality by fire and candlelight.
It’s been 22 years since Nathan Outlaw opened his first restaurant the Black Pig in Rock, Cornwall. Here is the recipe for his first ever dish; lemon sole fillets with smoked paprika mayonnaise.
The Gladwin Brothers are opening another restaurant in south west London.
Our undercover inspectors reveal some of London’s best-kept secrets south of the river.
The largest of the Channel Islands is a self-governing bailiwick off the northwest coast of France. On a clear day, from one of its many fortified eminences, where the old cannon have fallen silent and the defensive towers turned into bijou residences, you can see Normandy. Hydrangeas festoon large in private gardens, while summer sees outbreaks of startling, purple-headed agapanthus line the verges. There is a local language – a reconstructed Norman tongue called Jèrriais – which around three per cent of the inhabitants still use.
