One truly extraordinary perk of living in our epicurean empire is that when we’re emboldened enough to break free from our self-created culinary bubble, we can explore other palates prepared with nothing shy of a […]
The quintessentially English village of Matfield in Kent, complete with an idyllic cricket green and duck pond, could not provide a greater contrast to the muddy horrors of the Somme and Passchendaele. Yet celebrated World […]
The chef is from the south of Italy, the owner from the north, and the restaurant itself is virtually in the middle of England; Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire to be precise. What could possibly go wrong? […]
Mark Nicholls experiences theatrical dining at a new London restaurant. You’d expect nothing less than a performance. After all, Italian food and drama do naturally go hand-in-hand. But when you open a new dining concept […]
Stepping into The Hare, located in Langton Green – a suburb of Tunbridge Wells – is a bit like being invited into somebody’s home. It’s an elegant building, which is unmistakeably an eatery, yet at […]
A few years ago, Gordon Ramsay hosted a show in which restaurants all over the country competed for the title of ‘best local restaurant’. And it was an Indian restaurant in Birmingham that won, against […]
Al Hamra is a restaurant with balls. Quite literally, if you examine item 57 on the menu: lamb’s testicles. In English cuisine, these parts of the lamb are euphemistically called “fries” but at Al Hamra, […]
Beloved readers. Springtime is here, and she is tempting us in every esculent, effusive way. It is the flirtiest of the seasons; fragrant and phenomenally unabashed. An ideal time to re-enter restaurants and lavish over […]
As Britain starts to awaken following months of lockdown, people up and down the country are longing to leave their homes and meet up with friends and family once again. However, there’s a catch, we […]
Post-lockdown dining in London is a curious thing: liberating but strangely restrictive at the same time. What appears to be a burgeoning cosmopolitan world of al fresco dining is in fact limited by the fact […]
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