That three of the world's top chefs - Heston Blumenthal from England, Daniel Boulud from New York and France's Pierre Gagnaire - were to be in the audience for my speech on the future of...

In Scenes from Asia last week, I showed the scene just before a giant outdoor banquet that had been arranged for Mandarin Oriental's top chefs (including Heston Blumenthal, Daniel Boulud and...

Two stalls by the estuary in the fishing village just to the north of Cha-Am in Thailand would delight any chef or lover of seafood. Behind the first sat a woman swinging her axe at a...

For many of us, today feels like the first day back at work in earnest. Thanks to the magic of modern communications, I have never been far from this site (as I hope you’ve noticed), but...

I am sure that there are readers of this website, and my column in the Financial Times , who believe that I flit from one table to another without the slightest problem about reservations. That...