FOOD+DRINK

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Waiter – there’s a fire on my table! | Review: Restaurant Überfahrt, Bavaria

Waiter – there’s a fire on my table! | Review: Restaurant Überfahrt, Bavaria

by Derek Guthrie

The latest three star addition to Germany’s Michelin firmament – Christian Jurgens’s very different expression of Bavarian cuisine

Last of Soho’s summer wine | Bocca di Lupo, London

Last of Soho’s summer wine | Bocca di Lupo, London

by Derek Guthrie

"I’m quite happy that I won’t be around for the Soho of the next century"

Why Death + Company should kill itself

Why Death + Company should kill itself

by Civilian New York City

The tedium of the anachronistic door policy

The vegetables of 10 Downing Street | Review: Cafe Clover

The vegetables of 10 Downing Street | Review: Cafe Clover

by Neil D.A. Stewart

How do you like your cauliflower steak? Cafe Clover is quite the scene, and full of Zeitgeisty veg-focused cooking

What’s your Beef? Knowing your Kobe from your Kagoshima

What’s your Beef? Knowing your Kobe from your Kagoshima

by Derek Guthrie

"Kobe mythology, incidentally, has cows seduced by music and massaged with beer. The reality is somewhat different"

Bao wow!

Bao wow!

by Civilian New York City

"The alarming sounding chocolate xiao long bao is a thing of great joy"

Happy Easter everybody! | Salute the balut

Happy Easter everybody! | Salute the balut

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"I’ve seen frankly alarming pictures of people eating the balut whole, but I went spoonful by cautious spoonful"

Hound of love | Cornwall, Padstein and Cyril

Hound of love | Cornwall, Padstein and Cyril

by Rosie Birkett

Rosie Birkett couldn’t take a holiday, she had a book to write. Then she got a dog, and a desire for some Rick Stein fish & chips and sea air. Cue Cornwall

A gentile dining experience

A gentile dining experience

by Mark C. O'Flaherty

"Who gives a fig about blagging your way into the Polo Bar when you can flick through a grill menu (with a mysteriously large selection of sushi) while watching home movie footage of a bunch of guys in grey beards high-kicking through their ankle-length black coats on the Tel Aviv tarmac next to an El Al jumbo?"

Taking the patisserie

Taking the patisserie

by Michelle Scott

Fashion forward cakes are all the rage. Michelle Scott tucks into the afternoon Prêt-à-Portea at The Berkeley in London and thinks she might actually prefer something a bit more Primark, Builder’s and Battenberg than haute couture