No one got into meal kits for the fun of it. Packing up pre-prepared food for a customer perhaps hundreds of miles away was not the reason why most chefs got into the profession. And adding a series ...

In the late 1880s, a man called Giacomo Bracchi arrived in London, where he made money by playing a mechanical organ on wheels. After a while, maybe with the pennies he’d saved, Bracchi made the ...

Any restaurant that wants to have a chance of surviving through coronavirus will have to completely reconsider what being a restaurant means. When intense lockdowns have finally flattened the curve ...

In the courtyard of Levant Book Café, water trickles in a stone fountain. The tables are occupied by customers drinking strong Arab coffee and playing chess on heavy wooden boards with ornately carved ...

On a warm Friday evening somewhere along an anonymous stretch of the Old Kent Road, the shutters at Pho Thuy Tay are half down and the lights are off. Outside, a huddle of Deliveroo drivers are ...

But this isn’t just about what is in the bowl being worthy of £75. Even though the ingredients are impeccable and the cooking is of a high standard, what you’re really paying for is the show. The ...

Update, Wednesday 13 October 10:00 a.m.: This article has been updated with a new statement from Elizabeth Haigh’s spokesperson. Wee issued a statement on her Instagram on Thursday 7 October, saying ...

Great British Bake Off 2020 will run without one of GBBO’s most recognisable judges of quality: the Paul Hollywood handshake.Filmed under quarantine over four weeks rather than the usual eleven, new ...

In the summer of 2022, influential Franco-Palestinian chef Fadi Kattan is admiring the display of vegetables at a market in Bethlehem like a kid in a sweet shop. “I begin here,” he says of a produce ...

A stone’s throw from the Palladium but distinct from the chaos of Carnaby Street and Kingly Court, the new venture from the team behind Shoreditch’s Crispin is a casually charming spot. The menu ...

The COVID-19 crisis continues to devastate businesses in central London, not least for those hit earliest and hardest, and with few opportunities to pivot “In the 30 years I’ve worked here in central ...

Ben Hawkey (Hot Pie from Game of Thrones) opened his first real-world bakery — You Know Nothing John Dough — through London restaurant delivery service, Deliveroo earlier this month. Inspired by the ...