My father, Marilyn Monroe and Dom Perignon

"This act of blind tasting started the rumour that he was blind (he wasn’t)"

Central to everything | The Peruvian magic of Virgilio Martínez

"Virgilio quite literally cooks Peru. He does not import or imitate. He creates"

Lagos to London, First class | Akoko

"African cooking and African cuisine is… well, it’s nothing. It doesn’t exist."

After hours | Review: 25hours Hotel Indre By, Copenhagen

"Once you’ve got your key for your room, you take the lift upstairs and realise quickly that this is a hotel that could compete with The Overlook for scale and bewildering hallways"

Hiša Franko | At home in the country

"Brexit stopped any dreamy fantasy of setting up a life there. And don’t get me started on that"

Effervesce sense | Karen Krizanovich on winter sparklers

"It’s the FOMO champer for your hamper and I can’t believe I wrote that"

Shifting Plates | The incongruity of Scotts

"Real life intruded in 1975 when the IRA bombed this swank symbol of the establishment, killing one diner and injuring 15 others"

Davey Davis and their queer New York noir

"Sexual perversion is so ingrained in the history of 20th-century queerness that it's the rule, not the exception"

Rebooting the country boozer | The Small Holding, Kent

"This place might have a past in pints and pickles, but the restaurant knows precisely what it wants to be today. There’s no flirting with pub snacks here"

Why I’ll always want to go to a Wagamama, wherever

"I did a fashion shoot at the Lexington Street Chipperfield space. Every surface and frosted glass corridor was sleek and lovely"

Effervesce sense | Karen Krizanovich works her way through the best of the best BTG lists

"Yes, my first encounter was at Sheekey’s, the theatre district’s darling heart. But Henriot is at home in Hollywood’s Waldorf Astoria, Tokyo’s Restaurant Apicius and London’s Four Seasons Hotel at Ten Trinity Square as well"

Edible Edinburgh

"True, not every city centre has a bloody great fortress looming overhead whose cannon booms at 1pm (to wake the students, ha ha)"

Scandinavian heat at Scotland Yard | Ekstedt at The Yard, London

"Scotland Yard Hotel: a handsome but solid red brick townhouse where a sunbeam wouldn’t show its face for fear of getting itself arrested"

Is this the best restaurant in… Slovenia? | Grič, Šentjošt

"I'm reluctant to even tell you about Grič, wanting to keep this precious gem a secret all for myself"

The Catalan tapes | Almanac Barcelona

"So I got liver! Such a treat for a vegan!"

The Michelin stars are landing | Ossiano, Dubai

"High-rise dining and bottomless brunches come at a premium. Sandy salads, too"

Effervesce sense | Karen Krizanovich’s guide to midsummer sparkle

"I don’t want to read about a wine I can’t actually get"

Cooking the history books | El Llorenç Parc de la Mar, Palma

"This is a restaurant where tradition is (forgive me) baked in"

The worst waitress in London | Viva Dalston

"As we headed for the door she shouted '…AND DON’T EVER COME BACK… YOU RACISTS!'"

Somerset and match | Osip, Bruton

"There's no menu or catalogue of ingredients, and deliberately so. Merlin decided last year to forgo such a structure"

Life on the Nile

"To the shy or less than gregarious among us, the cruise sounds like hell on water"

El Bulli’s eye | Fismuler, Madrid

"Three nationalities, all famished, feigning amiable smiles while waiting, praying, dying for food to arrive"

Simple pleasures | La Tasquita de Enfrente, Madrid

"A dumpy blonde in a leather jacket and jeans moved in from the downpour and took shelter beside me beneath the bar’s awning. She then proceeded to pull down her trousers and do, something"

This is not a French restaurant

Hélène Darroze at The Connaught received its third Michelin star in 2021, and retained it in 2022

Red carpets and undiscovered gems

"Where else can I savour the choices of often esoteric programmers whose idea of a great film is a far cry from mine?"

Effervesce Sense | Drink the farm dry

"For sure, no wine like this was ever served in the history of Illinois"

The ages of Attica

Artists in residence and ascendance

The best books of 2022

A star is transitioned