British food and drink

Outlier, Glasgow G1: ‘This kind of carefully orchestrated can’t-be-arsedness is really quite magical’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants

by The Guardian | Oct 25, 2026 | British food and drink, Food, Restaurants, The Guardian | 0 |

You cannot fake fabulous by simply buying in cool crockery and a freezer full of someone else’s pastryIn my misspent youth, I’d head to Glasgow to watch the likes of Fields of the Nephilim and Hawkwind at the Barrowland...

Dante Mayfair, Claridge’s, London W1: ‘Are chips ever worth £11? Probably not’ – restaurant review

by The Guardian | Oct 4, 2026 | American food and drink, British food and drink, Food, Restaurants, The Guardian | 0 |

The whole point of going to Claridge’s in the first place is to sweep in through the grand main hotel entranceDante Mayfair, inside Claridge’s on Brook Street in London, has been created, the hotel’s management says, to become...

Kintsu, Colchester, Essex: ‘Style as well as substance’ – restaurant review

by The Guardian | Sep 6, 2026 | British food and drink, Food, Restaurants, The Guardian | 0 |

Thoughtful, clever cooking that errs on the side of tastyAmid all the bunting and hoopla of the platinum jubilee back in 2022, you may well have missed that Colchester, Britain’s oldest recorded settlement, got an upgrade from...

Café Clement, London WC2: ‘Turns out it’s really rather good’ – restaurant review

by The Guardian | Aug 23, 2026 | British food and drink, Food, Restaurants, The Guardian | 0 |

I am forever curious as to how these kind of sizzling places feel on a normal Tuesday two months in, especially when the celebrities are all off sunning their bottoms in TuscanyCafé Clement, the all-day restaurant inside Nick...

The Golden Tooth, London N16: ‘The cheese tart alone makes this destination dining’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants

by The Guardian | Jun 21, 2026 | British food and drink, Food, Restaurants, The Guardian | 0 |

This is what happens when a fledgling talent ages a little, and begins serving food with cool, clear, adult directionThe Golden Tooth, on Green Lanes in north London, sounds as if it could be a pirate’s watering hole in...

Save the balti! Can Birmingham’s best dish come back from the brink?

by The Guardian | Jun 2, 2026 | Birmingham, British food and drink, Curry, Food, Indian food and drink, The Guardian, UK news, Unesco, United Nations | 0 |

In the 1990s, there were hundreds of authentic balti restaurants in the English city. Now, there are about 20. Will a big campaign bring back the boom times?‘Curry might have come from India, but balti was born in Birmingham,”...

Simpson’s-in-the-Strand, London WC2: ‘A rollicking list of cosy British joys’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants

by The Guardian | Apr 12, 2026 | British food and drink, Food, Restaurants, The Guardian | 0 |

The British may not have the most sophisticated palates, but we are adorable in our culinary urgesAs we sit awaiting the beef rib trolley in the Grand Divan dining room at the whoppingly sized Simpson’s-in-the-Strand, we fizz...

The Wellington, Margate, Kent: ‘Worth risking a werewolf attack to get to’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants

by The Guardian | Mar 29, 2026 | British food and drink, Food, French food and drink, Pubs, Restaurants, The Guardian | 0 |

The ever-changing menu is a paean to things that make me happyThe Wellington has been drawing crowds to Margate of late, due to a recent takeover by chef Billy Stock and front-of-house queen Ellie Topham. Stock is formerly of...

‘Truly vile’: the UK’s 25 best (and worst) novelty hot cross buns – tested!

by The Guardian | Mar 25, 2026 | Baking, British food and drink, Dessert, Easter, Food, Life and style, Seasonal food, The Guardian | 0 |

Can you beat a traditional spiced yeast bun at Easter? There’s only one way to find out. Bring on the rhubarb and custard version, the red velvet, the chocolate and fudge, the tiramisu …Hot cross buns, the Easter treat...

Trillium, Birmingham B4: ‘There’s a general feeling of people – gasp! – actually enjoying life’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants

by The Guardian | Mar 8, 2026 | British food and drink, Chefs, Food, Restaurants, The Guardian | 0 |

I’m somewhat in love with this weird, bold, silly restaurantTrillium, the latest Birmingham restaurant by Glyn Purnell, is absolutely not one of those po-faced, sedate, mumbly kind of places where some Ludovico Einaudi is piped...

Skye Gyngell was singular. She had the palate of a chef and the palette of an artist

by The Guardian | Nov 24, 2025 | Australian food and drink, British food and drink, Chefs, Food, Restaurants, The Guardian | 0 |

Her commitment to food directly connected to its source shaped the tastes and thinking of a generation of cooks. We all wanted to sit next to her at dinnerSpring is a season of transition, when bare earth transforms into...

Town, London WC2: ‘This place is a feeder’ – restaurant review | Grace Dent on restaurants

by The Guardian | Jun 1, 2025 | British food and drink, Food, Restaurants, The Guardian | 0 |

Chef and restaurateur Stevie Parle takes to London’s theatreland with yet another sterling performance to add to his CV: a great first act, a strong middle section and a thoroughly satisfying denouementOff to Town this week, on...

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