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15 restaurants for Lunar New Year
Lunar New Year is celebrated across China, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Explore our pick of places to usher in the year of the wood dragon.
Lunar New Year is celebrated across China, the Korean Peninsula, Vietnam, the Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore. Explore our pick of places to usher in the year of the wood dragon.
Originally conceived as a workers’ canteen for Sir Richard Rogers’ architectural practice next door, The River Café (now in its fourth decade) has gone on to achieve international stardom as a glowing tribute to Italian regional cooking. Diligent sourcing and vigorous rustic flavours are at the heart of Ruth Rogers’ kitchen, with seasonal salads, silky homemade pastas and wood-roasted specialities headlining the daily menus.
Expect Jersey oysters with sorrel and cucumber, chancre (brown) crab crumpets with smoked butter hollandaise, and wood-roasted native greens with burnt garlic and garum when Pêtchi opens this week in St Helier. The grill restaurant and wine bar is a second venture for Great British Menu 2020 finalist and Jersey-born chef Joe Baker, and his wife Charlotte, who previously ran Number 10 restaurant, also in St Helier, which closed earlier this year.
You don’t need swanky surroundings to enjoy the fruits of the sea. Some of the best places for waterside dining are barely more than sheds, where it’s the ingredients that really stand out.
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