To eat or not to eat… that is the question. In Shakespeare’s home town, the answer is yes – but do not anticipate any poetry from the kitchen 9 Church Street, Stratford-upon Avon (01789 425 522). Meal for two, including wine and service: £100 Stratford-upon-Avon is, like Hollywood, an industry town. In this case the industry is Shakespeare, described to me politely by one resident as being akin to “a massive spreading oak tree in the shade of which tiny ...
Tourists flock to Canterbury for its historic buildings, winding river and Chaucer associations. But how does it fare for cheap places to eat? Tony Naylor updates a previous Guardian guide to the city’s budget restaurants by choosing 10 new favourites What do you think of our top 10? Add your comments belowInteractive map: Britain’s ideal budget eats The home of Canterbury Brewers (the brewery’s stainless steel tuns are visible on the ground floor), the Foundry also does a fine line ...
Mumbai’s grand old Parsi cafes are a symbol of the city’s diverse cuisine and culture, but on a foodie tour of the city our writer finds out they are a dying breed I eat the ideal creme caramel of my life in 26C heat, with life-sized cutouts of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge smiling down at me from the dining room’s slightly slanting balcony. A pigeon snoozes on the lone chandelier, dusty beneath peeling turquoise paintwork, and ceiling fans ...
Chez Georges, a Parisian brasserie, has the lot: grubby decor, grumpy waitresses and simply superb cooking 1 rue du Mail, Paris 75002 (00 33 1 42 60 07 11). Meal for two, including wine and service: €125 It doesn’t matter how good an impersonation it is. It doesn’t matter whether it is a faithful homage rather than mere clumsy translation. Sometimes I just crave the real thing. In any case, I was goaded into it. Over the past few months ...
Asadal’s Korean dishes would provide a fitting – if not entirely satisfying – meal during a long nuclear winter 229-231 High Holborn, London WC1 (020 7430 9006). Meal for two, including wine and service: £100 If the planet is about to be wiped out in a nuclear Armageddon caused by a soft-cheeked twentysomething with a lousy tailor, I refuse to go on an empty stomach. But just what to eat? How ideal to celebrate what is either, depending on your viewpoint, ...
Asadal’s Korean dishes would provide a fitting – if not entirely satisfying – meal during a long nuclear winter 229-231 High Holborn, London WC1 (020 7430 9006). Meal for two, including wine and service: £100 If the planet is about to be wiped out in a nuclear Armageddon caused by a soft-cheeked twentysomething with a lousy tailor, I refuse to go on an empty stomach. But just what to eat? How ideal to celebrate what is either, depending on your viewpoint, ...
Oriental Dragon looks and sounds like a cheap takeaway. But be warned: its food is dangerously addictive 100 Cleveland Street, London W1 (020 7387 7878). Meal for two, including wine and service: £60 There is a kind of salty paranoia that strikes me most commonly in a particular type of Chinese restaurant: a fear that however carefully I read the menu, however much I plot and triangulate the found poetry of the dishes against each other, I’m still going to ...
Oriental Dragon looks and sounds like a cheap takeaway. But be warned: its food is dangerously addictive 100 Cleveland Street, London W1 (020 7387 7878). Meal for two, including wine and service: £60 There is a kind of salty paranoia that strikes me most commonly in a particular type of Chinese restaurant: a fear that however carefully I read the menu, however much I plot and triangulate the found poetry of the dishes against each other, I’m still going to ...
Balthazar has arrived in London in a cloud of hype. A shame then that it fails to live up to the expectation 4-6 Russell Street, London WC2 (020 3301 1155). Meal for two, including wine and service: £120 Woo hoo! Look at me with my huge fat arse slapped on one of Balthazar’s red-leather banquettes. All those phone calls. All that frustration. Dealing with all those hand-wringing emails from Keith McNally, the British bloke who opened the original in New York ...
Looking for farm accommodation? In need of a cafe on a walking break? Guardian readers give you the lowdown on top stops Winning tip: The Garlic Farm, Isle of Wight Alliumphobic? Take a trip to the Garlic Farm and face your fear. The Taste Experience offers giant baked elephant garlic, breads, dips and chutneys. Visitors can take a tractor tour of the growing fields, plait it, purchase it, eat it and smell it. Then, in the cafe, sample the food ...