Should you buy cast iron, copper or stainless steel? How do you store them? And what about seasoning? Here is everything you need to knowChoosing the right pan can be a mind-boggling task. There’s a plethora of options, from...
Read MoreThe cooking is sometimes bang on, sometimes a little slapdash, but then piques your interest all over againIndian Cafe Racer on Bristol Street, Birmingham, spent its fledgling years tucked behind a curtain at the back of the...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreLittle bits of loveliness from Sauchiehall Street to the Silk Road, from a chef who wants to deliver maximum joySebb’s is a basement restaurant on Miller Street in Glasgow with a door that’s perilously easy to miss, even though...
Read MoreOur main course arrived heavy and somewhat intimidating, and left picked completely cleanEarlier this month, a kind-of Turkish ocakbaşı opened on a corner in London’s Soho. The brains behind Kid are chef Sertaç Dirik and...
Read MoreSoaring fish prices, labour costs and changing tastes all spell bad news for Britain’s chippies. Is this the end for the seaside staple – or will a few innovators succeed in keeping them alive?One day in 2007, Darren Sudlow...
Read MoreMore than 800 businesses ask PM to make good on pledge, or risk more closures and job lossesHundreds of UK hospitality businesses, backed by celebrity chefs including Angela Hartnett and Heston Blumenthal, have asked Andy...
Read MoreOnce central to rural life, cafe-bistros are closing in the face of depopulation and falling alcohol consumption, but campaigners are seeking new ways forwardIt is just past noon on a midweek day, and already every table at Au...
Read MoreIt has become common for people to wait in long lines for cafes, bakeries and ice-cream shops. But why? And what do the owners think?At 9.45am on a warm Saturday in September, a queue snakes down the pavement in Notting Hill,...
Read MoreAbout a quarter of British adults admit to having pilfered something from a pub or restaurant. Is it an Insta-fuelled craze, or just old-fashioned greed?Knives, candles, a toilet roll holder complete with screws and Rawlplugs –...
Read MoreThoughtful, 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...
Read MoreInstagrammers have upended the British restaurant scene, and amassed followings in the millions. But has their moment already passed?In 2017, two aspiring YouTubers going by the name Topjaw published a video posing the London...
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