Richard Polo, born in Connecticut, USA, to Italian immigrants from Amalfi, has spent the last 25 years in London during which time he has become one…
25 Feb 2002 Nick LanderIf there is one thing that everyone seems to agree upon it is that eating out in good restaurants is expensive. With lunch bills averaging £20/25 per…
10 Feb 2002 Nick LanderA trip to Portugal last year with Tim Hughes, Sheekey's head chef, and four other chefs (an account of which will appear in the March issue of Conde…
21 Jan 2002 Nick LanderNext Saturday the full details of the first-ever transatlantic restaurant promotion will be unveiled in the Weekend Section and on ft.com. The…
21 Jan 2002 Nick LanderThe 2002 Michelin, the red guide to Great Britain and Ireland, is just out and can be summed up in three words - dull, dull and dull. It is not so…
17 Jan 2002 Nick LanderOn your way out of L'Angle du Faubourg in Paris's smart 8th arrondissement something takes place which is highly unusual yet so highly indicative of…
13 Jan 2002 Nick LanderRestaurant reviewers, quite understandably, do not receive any sympathy for their lifestyle, however altruistic I may argue is my wining and dining.…
9 Jan 2002 Nick LanderThis newish sister restaurant to The Square, Chez Bruce and La Trompette around London has a particularly good selection of wine by the glass (all too…
30 Dec 2001 Nick LanderHeston Blumenthal's new brasserie is hidden in a rather scruffy hut among 700 beached gin palaces but perseverance pays. For over 20 years I have…
19 Dec 2001 Nick LanderThe world, well at least its food and wine lovers, owe Carlo Petrini and his colleagues who founded Slow Food in Italy a decade ago a great debt.…
17 Dec 2001 Nick LanderCaterer & Hotelkeeper, the British restaurant trade weekly, recently carried out a survey of wine prices in hotels and restaurants. Not surprisingly,…
2 Dec 2001 Nick LanderThe trade in black truffles which begins in early December in the most inaccessible, rugged but stunningly beautiful parts of rural France, Spain and…
13 Nov 2001 Nick LanderA significant change on British menus over the past decade has been the closer, more conspicuous, collaboration between chefs, restaurateurs and their…
13 Nov 2001 Nick LanderFood should be fun, but you would hardly know it from this year's crop of British restaurant guides. They undoubtedly serve many useful purposes, even…
4 Nov 2001 Nick LanderWhen Michael Belben and chef David Eyre opened The Eagle on Farringdon Road, London EC1, in 1991 they unwittingly established what Eyre jokingly…
24 Oct 2001 Nick Lander
