Supermarket shelves might be looking bare but the fields are fit to bursting with summer’s bounty right now. Whether it’s in Manchester city centre, on a farm in Cornwall or on the shores of Loch Fyne, we’ve picked out some of the best restaurants in the country to enjoy the spoils of the season.
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?
It is worth remembering that when Albert and Michel Roux opened Le Gavroche in 1967 – decamping from Lower Sloane Street to Upper Brook Street in 1981 – they introduced top-class gastronomy to the UK.
We may be familiar with regional Indian cooking and South East Asian food, but Nepalese cuisine is relatively unknown to many of us. We asked Zeren Wilson of John Dory wine bar, restaurant site Bitten & Written, and Folkestone local to delve into the town’s astonishing collection of Nepalese restaurants.
