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    • Thursday, 11 August, 2022
      FT MagazineRestaurants
      ‘Damn near perfect’: Upstairs at The George in London’s Fitzrovia

      At this classic Fitzrovian haunt, a dressed crab with ‘classic garnish’ is bait to the food nerd in your soul

    • Thursday, 4 August, 2022
      FT MagazineWine
      The ‘natural wine’ wars end here

      There are snobs on both sides, but this debate isn’t really about wine — it’s about new ways of drinking

    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
      FT MagazineRestaurants
      Trattoria Sostanza — this is where to eat in Florence

      It’s full of Italian families, the interior hasn’t been touched since 1945 and the food is a work of art

    • Thursday, 21 July, 2022
      FT MagazineRestaurants
      At The Bell Inn, Tim Hayward faces his fears: liver and Oxfordshire

      Anyone can fry chicken, but these chefs have really thought it through. The result is perfection

    • Thursday, 14 July, 2022
      FT MagazineRestaurants
      Paradise: heavenly flavours in still-seedy Soho

      This is challenging cooking, in the best way possible

    • Thursday, 7 July, 2022
      FT MagazineRestaurants
      A Brit chef’s French adventure ticks all the boxes in Languedoc

      Tim Hayward discovers a ridiculously romantic celebration of entente at the Grand Café Occitan

    • Thursday, 30 June, 2022
      FT MagazineRestaurants
      The moment I knew we’d reached Peak Hackney

      Anonymous satire or autonomous bot? One Twitter account has been ahead of the pack when it came to chronicling a famous food scene

    • Friday, 24 June, 2022
      Summer Books 2022
      Best summer books of 2022: Food and drink

      Tim Hayward selects his best mid-year reads

    • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
      FT MagazineRestaurants
      Gong-worthy dining at a modernist masterpiece

      Toklas is more exciting than almost any other room in London

    • Thursday, 16 June, 2022
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      When Armageddon comes, I want to be in Bristol

      Even the weirder wines at Caper and Cure have me weeping soft tears of joy

    • Thursday, 9 June, 2022
      FT MagazineRestaurants
      You’ll love this little French bistro. Especially if you order the pouffe-sized croque

      Funky Cellar in London’s Spitalfields has simple hospitality, ’70s decor and a sense of humour

    • Friday, 3 June, 2022
      Brexit
      The British never forgot imperial measures in the first place

      Boris Johnson’s promise to ‘restore’ them is nothing more than a cynical sleight of hand

    • Thursday, 2 June, 2022
      FT MagazineFood & Drink
      How domination and submission define our relationship to food

      ‘I wouldn’t order an off-menu keto omelette nor, indeed, tolerate anyone else who did in my presence, yet I’ll specify my egg with mathematical precision when ordering brunch’

    • Saturday, 28 May, 2022
      Summer Food & Drink special
      Why salad cream, a British oddity, is better than mayonnaise

      It’s not bland and neutral, it’s mustardy, vinegary and wonderful

    • Thursday, 19 May, 2022
      ReviewFT Magazine
      The Elderflower, Lymington: a lot of chef time for your money

      This Hampshire restaurant is the kind of place I’d suggest you travel a great distance to enjoy

    • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
      FT MagazineRestaurants
      Theo Randall at the InterContinental: oh so worth the kcals

      It shouldn’t be a shock that an important chef still loves to cook, but it’s pretty humbling to see

    • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
      FT MagazineRestaurants
      While London restaurants struggle, the north is steaming ahead

      The Pack Horse, Hayfield, is one of the best examples of the post-pandemic restaurant renaissance

    • Thursday, 5 May, 2022
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      How seafood restaurants are fighting inflation

      The war in Ukraine could send the price of fish and chips soaring

    • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
      FT MagazineRestaurants
      Fish that makes you go ‘oof’

      Lisboeta is an audacious launch on sacred turf for iconoclast Nuno Mendes

    • Thursday, 21 April, 2022
      FT MagazineFood & Drink
      My slightly mad quest for the perfect spoon

      What marks out a truly great chef in the kitchen is not their knives, but their spoons

    • Thursday, 14 April, 2022
      FT MagazineRestaurants
      The viscerally thrilling cooking of Sessions Arts Club, London

      It takes confidence, skill and humility to present food as simply as this

    • Friday, 8 April, 2022
      FT Magazine
      The secret life of fungi is weirder and wilder than you can imagine

      It’s not the hallucinogenic qualities of fungi that boggle the mind, but everything else about them

    • Thursday, 7 April, 2022
      ReviewFT Magazine
      Brutto and Luca: London’s two best Italian restaurants

      The glorious ruins of Smithfield meat market are home to these two stupendous eateries

    • Thursday, 31 March, 2022
      ReviewFT Magazine
      A £33 omelette? At the Hand and Flowers in Marlow, it’s worth it

      Tom Kerridge’s Michelin-starred pub is shockingly expensive — which is just the way it should be

    • Wednesday, 23 March, 2022
      FT SeriesSpring food & drink special
      The secret psychology of taste, from raw oysters to tequila

      How something tastes is less about the tongue than the brain, writes Tim Hayward

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