FOOD+DRINK

Recipes, reviews, farms and tables

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

Review: Portland, London | Fitzrovia’s new eating machine

Review: Portland, London | Fitzrovia’s new eating machine

by Karen Krizanovich

"First of all, I’m local and I was here before the other reviewers, okay?" Karen Krizanovich’s new favourite neighbourhood restaurant

Do not pass Spago | Review: Spago Beverly Hills

Do not pass Spago | Review: Spago Beverly Hills

by Chrissy Iley

There’s no dining room more Beverly Hills than Spago Beverly Hills. Chrissy Iley likes it. A lot.

Haute chocolate

Haute chocolate

by Jennifer Sharp

Jennifer Sharp and the new adventures in couverture

Barefoot luxury | Review: Sake no Hana, London

Barefoot luxury | Review: Sake no Hana, London

by Rebecca Fortey

Rebecca Fortey tries out the new Umai menu at Sake no Hana, experiences some hits and some misses, but lives to tell the tale

In the eye of the beholder | Review: Beautique, New York

In the eye of the beholder | Review: Beautique, New York

by Ed Vallance

"The scene is at once surreal, grotesque and utterly mesmerizing. I revel in the weirdness of the place"

A bit sweary at Orana | the Aboriginal influenced cuisine of ex-Noma Nomad Chef Jock Zonfrillo

A bit sweary at Orana | the Aboriginal influenced cuisine of ex-Noma Nomad Chef Jock Zonfrillo

by David J Constable

"It's giving them acknowledgement of their culture, their traditions, their people, and their history"