Digging for victory at Craft London
Craft London, which opened last month in North Greenwich, is a restaurant, café and bar with a mission – to…
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Review: Joe's Southern Kitchen
Josh Spero finds a corner of Georgia in Kentish Town and settles in for some authentic Southern classics The cause…
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The King’s Road has been crying out for a restaurant like this, says Melinda Hughes I had tried time and…
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The champagne family business facing down revolution and rappers
Louis Roederer Cristal was originally created for Tsar Alexander II of Russia in 1876. Worried about assassination, the Tsar commissioned…
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Review: Raymond Blanc’s Le Manoir aux Quat’ Saisons
There have been few programmes on the BBC recently that I have enjoyed more than Kew On A Plate, hosted…
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Spring into spring food with Benares, Grain Store Unleashed and more
We are hitting lamb season and with the weather being fairly obliging, you can almost start believing that spring has…
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Tales of snails and squid Bolognese at Koffmann’s at the Berkeley
With the closure of Racine a few months ago, I have been rather lamenting the lack of gutsy, supremely well-cooked,…
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Summery blogs, books and Instagrams to brighten your day
For the past few years, Britain has been cookery crazy. From baking to basting, searing to stewing, a gluttonous deluge…
ByReview: Raymond Blanc's Le Manoir aux Quat' Saisons
Inspired by Kew On A Plate, Emily Rookwood revisited Le Manoir, Raymond Blanc’s plate-perfect countryside retreat There have been few…
ByTales of snails and squid Bolognese at Koffmann's at the Berkeley
Emily Rookwood on one of London’s last remaining bastions of simple, excellent French food With the closure of Racine a…
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The Larousse Book of Bread author Eric Kayser’s top ten baking tips
Eric Kayser has recently published The Larousse Book of Bread and to celebrate this he has compiled his top ten…
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The Vault at Milroy’s – the (not-so) hidden Soho speakeasy for Smoking Guns and Colombianas
Fridges, mirrors, flowers arrangements and sex shops – there’s more than one way to enter a speakeasy. A few years…
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Spear’s drops in on the palate-pleasing offering with a Palladian theme, and finds an oasis of top wines – and…
ByThe Larousse Book of Bread author Eric Kayser's top ten baking tips
Don’t sweat the setbacks when you embark on ‘the great bread-making adventure’, the French baker and food writer tells Spear’s.…
ByThe Vault at Milroy's – the (not-so) hidden Soho speakeasy for Smoking Guns and Colombianas
Spear’s delves down, through the bookcase into the subtle and unpretentious bat-den that screams good times Fridges, mirrors, flowers arrangements…
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What do Yoshinori Ishii’s mysterious letters from Mayfair have to do with the price of fish?
At first the fishermen of Newlyn in Cornwall were a little bemused. It was late summer in 2010 and notes…
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British dining scene recognised by Elite Traveler
Author: Zahra Al-Kateb London boasts a total of five restaurants in the Elite Traveler Top 100 Restaurants in the World,…
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Review: Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée
It’s never a good idea to click on YouTube links titled ‘What the meat industry doesn’t want you to see’,…
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A day in the life of Peter Weeden of the Newman Street Tavern
I’m up for a quick cup of tea and slice of toast at 6.45 before dashing to the train to…
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Restaurant review: Beer and Buns, Liverpool Street
Based on a Japanese izakaya, or bar, Beer and Buns is found up a very dark staircase in a corner…
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