Banking provided the unusual connection between an extraordinary restaurant in Boston, Massachusetts, that was built in the late 19th century and the current price of lobster, now at its lowest...

Restaurant-goers are responding with commendable common sense to the current economic downturn in ways that have striking similarities to such responses in the early 1980s, when I naively opened...

Although the contents of the menu at Elettaria, the Indian-influenced restaurant opened by chef Akhtar Nawab and two partners earlier this year in New York’s West Village, are highly...

Private dining rooms within restaurants have always been popular even if something of a contradiction in that restaurants are ostensibly public, egalitarian places which people visit to see and...

Restaurateurs are not smiling quite as broadly as they were a year ago as corporate and household budgets have been tightened. Lunchtime trade in restaurants located in the financial districts...

This year’s Restaurant Show at Earl’s Court in London contained one unexpected gem. Past the stands displaying the latest in vast washing up machines, gleaming ovens and software packages to...

Dawn Davies (ex Ledbury) of Selfridges Wonder Bar in London W1 (pictured) and purple pager Jamie Hutchinson of The Sampler, London N1 need your help. You may remember that silly old UK...

Dodie Miller has been the attractive and passionate conduit for distributing the most authentic Mexican ingredients to both professional and amateur chefs across the UK for the past 15 years....

Our party of eight, which included six first timers to El Bulli , met up in the bar of the Hotel Terraza in the nearest town, Roses on the Costa Brava, for a glass of champagne before our taxis...

See Sauvignon – methoxypyrazines v thiols for the background to this tasting in London with Saint Clair winemaker Matt Thomson (pictured left). I have given UK stockists and/or...

My first interview with the chef April Bloomfield took place five years ago, just before she set off for the US to make such a success of The Spotted Pig in New York’s West Village. It was...

Our intrepid sybarite correspondent Lindsay Hamilton, who retired from his co-ownership of Farr Vintners earlier this year, sends us another report of another lunch – and more travails on the...

The Giaconda Dining Room opened four months ago just off Charing Cross Road in London’s so-called Tin Pan Alley, Denmark Street, just opposite one of its music shops. What makes it so...

Silvano Giraldin has finally hung up his order pad and pen. After 37 years initially alongside Albert Roux and then his son Michel, Giraldin, who has been General Manager and Director of Le...

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