After a pandemic-enforced hiatus of our food series, in which we meet chefs in their restaurants to talk about home cooking, we’re back with a visit to Timberyard in Edinburgh to talk to dad and son team Andrew and Ben Radford. Read on for insider foraging tips, home cooking advice and an adaptabl...
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Our food series
takes you into some of the restaurants we admire for advice from chefs about cooking
and eating at home, as well as their seasonal recipes geared towards the
domestic kitchen – choose from Margot Henderson’s barbecued lamb, James Lowe’s whole-roast turbot or Seppe Nobels’ c...
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In part one of Kitchen Stories, Skye Gyngell, Jeremy Lee and Erchen Chang told us how the enforced pause on normal life has seen them turn to their home kitchens for solace and nourishment. Here, top chefs and restaurateurs David Gingell, Seppe Nobels and Clare Lattin share how they are eating t...
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With the unsettling but necessary closure of restaurants, chefs, like the rest of us, are turning to their home kitchens for nourishment, comfort and connection in this period of lockdown. Here, we’ve reached out to chefs in our community to get their thoughts on what a good meal can do for morale...
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This time most of us now face at home, while of course frustrating and uncertain, presents opportunities too, and cooking something nourishing, sustaining and perhaps a little more challenging than a standard weeknight meal is certainly one way to make the most of things. In this isolation edition o...
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If you’ve ever tucked into
a bao, those small, pillowy steamed buns filled with such things as braised
pork belly, fried chicken or perhaps tempura sweet potato, you owe something to
Erchen Chang, her husband Shing Tat Chung and sister-in-law Wai Ting Chung.
Together, they first bought the morei...
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In our fast-moving world, a restaurant that opened in 1869 and whose Victorian interior falls under the protection of a Grade II listing could be seen to have a problem. How do they keep things fresh? An interior shake-up is an obvious no-go. To serve classic British dishes without modification wo...
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In an 18th-century neoclassical townhouse in central Antwerp, on a cobbled square that’s been used as a marketplace for over 500 years, a decidedly modern form of commerce and hospitality takes the form of Graanmarkt 13. The five-storey building, opened in 2010, was overhauled by architect Vince...
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“I was given this voice, Im sorry it doesnt have volume control! I apologise profusely,” bellows chef Jeremy Lee during our lunch in the Blue Room at Quo Vadis in Soho, the Dean Street restaurant and members’ club he has presided over since 2012. He needn’t apologise, however. As anyone wh...
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Skye preparing raspberries and meringue at the Hearth restaurant
Fresh raspberries
Skye with Senior Pastry Chef, Stroma
Hearth's dining room
Staff uniforms at Heckfield Place were designed by Egg
Marle restaurant, Heckfield Place
Our seri...
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Next time youre in a restaurant, look around at your fellow diners and see if you can guess why theyre there. Depending on where youre eating, youll see some people celebrating – birthdays, promotions, anniversaries – some there for business, others arguing, first and last dates and a good num...
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In 1988, on the
advice of Saatchi & Saatchi, the V&A ran a series of campaigns
declaring itself as, ‘An ace caff, with quite a nice museum attached’, asking
the public, ‘Where else do they give you £100,000,000 worth of objets dart
free with every egg salad?’
If t...
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At Salon, a relaxed eatery occupying a former hair salon in Brixton market, chef Nicholas Balfe has served up crowd-forming brunches, inventive bar snacks and casual evening tasting menus since 2012. A next-door wine shop has sprung up since then and, in 2018, a new venture, Levan in Peckham, open...
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Chef Tim Siadatan and his business partner Jordan Frieda opened their neighbourhood Italian restaurant, Trullo, in Highbury in 2010. Their business and success have grown since then, with a cookbook under their belt and a second venture, Padella, a more casual pasta eatery near Borough market, as ...
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At their first two restaurants, Primeur and Westerns Laundry, chef David Gingell and restauranteur Jeremie Cometto-Lingenheim elevated the culinary offering of the N5 postcode with sincere, honest cooking made with superlative ingredients, and served with low-intervention wines in stripped-back ye...
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What does a restaurant included in ‘The World’s 50 Best list, with a Michelin star to its name and an endless footfall of food tourists from America to Japan look like? Never-ending tasting menus, gimmicky presentations, snooty sommeliers and chichi interiors? Not so, at least not at Jame...
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Tom Harris (left) and Jon Rotheram
The Marksman pub
The upstairs dining room, designed by London-based Italian Martino Gamper
Gamper's custom-designed tables and Ercol chairs furnish the dining room
Larder essentials in the basement kitchen
Roast du...
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Grilled wild mushrooms with confit egg yolks and barley, grilled peppers and bread
In March this year chef Tomos Parry opened his first solo restaurant, Brat (an old name for ‘turbot), in Shoreditch, serving up a grill-focused, Basque country-inspired menu. What has happened since...
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Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray
Roast grouse with porcini mushrooms
In 1987, Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray opened restaurant The River Cafe in a former warehouse, adapted by Ruths husband, architect Richard Rogers, on the banks of the River Thames in Hammersmith.
Some things have ch...
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