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Sète, Margate, Kent: ‘They’ve completely nailed the Parisian wine bar vibe’ – restaurant review

The Cafe de Paris butter is like a steroid-riddled curry sauce mated with a buttercream ganache

The Guardian - UK · Feb 9, 2024

Hot stews for cold days: Tamal Ray’s recipes for hearty vegan braises

A filling pumpkin, sage and barley stew, plus a mushroom and kidney bean winter warmer

The Guardian - UK · Jan 30, 2024

Bébé Bob, London W1: ‘A rotisserie wearing a fur coat’ – restaurant review

Bursting with swagger, this swanky roast chicken restaurant offers only the one main course, but it’s far too silly to be angry at

The Guardian - UK · Jan 12, 2024

Jane Baxter’s budget recipes for Middle Eastern-style beans

Cheap as chips but much healthier: a Middle-Eastern duo of french beans in tomato sauce with easy flatbreads, and a spicy fattoush salad … let the bean-counting begin …

The Guardian - UK · Sep 4, 2023

Imad Alarnab’s grilled marinated chicken with a tomato, roast fennel and dukkah salad – recipes

A Syrian recipe for chicken thighs that makes an easy midweek meal with leftovers – seek out the very best tomatoes you can find for the spiced salad to go with it

The Guardian - UK · Sep 2, 2023

Mallow, London E14: ‘They aim to please everyone here’ – restaurant review

It ransacks the cuisines of the world, taking flavours, dishes and cooking styles from every corner, and makes them all vegan without even mentioning the dreaded V word

The Guardian - UK · Jul 21, 2023

Polentina, London E3: ‘Utterly illogical, but altogether perfect’ – restaurant review

The food is wonderful, but I cannot say that everything else about eating here isn’t rather peculiar, because it absolutely is

The Guardian - UK · Jul 14, 2023

Jordan Bourke’s budget recipes with kimchi

These recipes for fried rice and mini pancake are a great – and thrifty – introduction to cooking with the everyday Korean staple

The Guardian - UK · Jul 10, 2023

Lasdun, London SE1: ‘I would not book anywhere else on the South Bank’ – restaurant review

This is careful, modern British cooking with the general vibe of a mother trying to feed you up on a visit home

The Guardian - UK · Jun 23, 2023

Lilienblum, London EC1: ‘Somehow, it all works’ – restaurant review

The chef writes dish descriptions like someone shouting their sitcom ideas at you from the back of a dance tent

The Guardian - UK · Jun 16, 2023