Local Guide
A local’s guide to Olympic Park, East London
Now that the Paris Olympics have drawn to a close, we look back to the East London location of our 2012 Olympics with a local guide from Hilary Armstrong.
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Now that the Paris Olympics have drawn to a close, we look back to the East London location of our 2012 Olympics with a local guide from Hilary Armstrong.
The Brazilian chef Rafael Cagali is opening a second restaurant, Elis, in Bethnal Green this autumn, building on the success of his two-star restaurant Da Terra.
Sandwiched between Dundee and Edinburgh, an expanse of Scottish rurality to the left, the blustering North Sea to the east, is the East Neuk of Fife. It is not a large part of the country, but it is an important one, with dozens of towns and villages playing host to some of Scotland’s most lustrous produce. A reverent James Porteous tells us where to go.
The Curlew restaurant in East Sussex will close ‘with immediate effect’, its chef-owner Will Devlin announced on Wednesday (2 November).
The Elizabeth line has broadened Londoners’ horizons. We might celebrate a rare success story: Liverpool Street to Paddington in just ten minutes is an example of its finesse. Transport for London said it will ‘transform’ travel across the capital, bringing in an estimated £42bn to the UK economy. Let us hope independent restaurants benefit. It is in the rail network’s connection of west to east that we might find worthy recipients of this simplified navigation of the capital. To visit Southall, for example, famous for its Indian restaurants, is easier than ever. Here, the food writer Sejal Sukhadwala picks out top places to dine along the line.