FOOD+DRINK

Recipes, reviews, farms and tables

Enrico Crippa’s ceaseless search for perfection

by David J Constable

"I’ve lived in Alba for over 15 years, and have found my happy place. I plant, I grow, I harvest, I cook"

Super chouette Soho | Review: Upstairs at The French

by Derek Guthrie

"There's a shimmer in the wallpaper that speaks of a more familiar, outré Soho, than secret wartime plotting"

Can you say … Ynyshir?

by Karen Krizanovich

"Unrivalled as a host, her death a week afterwards was unreasonably and irrationally upsetting to me: I’d only known her for a few hours"

Health is wealth | Ruen Urai, Bangkok

by David J Constable

"The food writer Tom Parker Bowles loves such severe capsicum fire in his belly and self-inflicting pain, threatening his tongue and arsehole. I prefer to steer clear of such voluntary punishment"

Déjà pho | A food tour of Vietnam

by Neil D.A. Stewart

"I started as I would continue: perched on a tiny plastic chair at 7am." Neil D.A. Stewart eats his way from Hanoi to Saigon, but skips the dog

George Reynolds on the new Nahm

by George Reynolds

"The whole fried fish at Nahm is delicious, but it’s not as impactful as eating a whole fish at a beachside restaurant, sand between your toes, flesh and crispy skin and garlic-chilli-lime nahm jim between your fingers"

British accents | JAAN by Kirk Westaway, Singapore

by David J Constable

"And I hate frogs, like a proper extreme hate. Slimy, little, croaking, pustule-skinned bastards"

Labyrinth | Seriously Singaporean

by David J Constable

"I arrived here by choice, then found myself rooted and homeless without a roof over my head"

We love … the Japanese toilets at M Threadneedle Street

by Civilian London

"It’s one that raises the seat for you as you approach, lest you find touching a toilet seat a kind of degeneracy"

Hot table | Review: Hide, London

by Derek Guthrie

"They knew the farmer's name, the strain of tomato used in the gazpacho, the fresh herbs used in that morning's Italian crispbread"

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