The oddest fledgling food trend to emerge from London’s most fashionable dining rooms over the last few weeks is the Scottish staple ‘mince’n’tatties’ – basically mince and mash. St John…

The kaiseki meal I had earlier this week at Umu in Mayfair was not only the best meal I’ve had outside Japan but one of the best all year (and…

Having a bit of post New Year clearout I came across a bottle of J W Lees Harvest Ale 2000 that I must have been given to celebrate the millennium.…

You can hardly go into a restaurant these days without spotting Barkham Blue on the menu. Every chef seems to be obsessed with it and I’ve been wondering why. It’s…

If there’s one wine that’s got impossibly fashionable against all the odds it’s Grüner Veltliner. I say against the odds because of its hard-to-remember-verging-on-unpronounceable name (grooner velt-leener, for those of…

When you think how much dishes get mucked about with these days it’s surprising that no-one has felt inspired to get creative with French onion soup. Until now. Yesterday I…

I’ve always thought it’s a supreme irony how similar Israeli and Palestinian food is given the emnity between the two countries. And my latest discovery, Patestinian couscous, which is imported…

My ‘taste a new beer a week’ resolution has been falling behind with this lurgy, today being the first day I’ve got some tastebuds back since the beginning of the…

The problem about pop-up restaurants is that by the time you hear about them they’re gone. Or are totally booked out as was the case with Hart & Fuggle which…

A recent exchange on Twitter reminded me how excited we all get about the word pudding. No sooner had someone mentioned one than we all piled in exchanging tweets on…