Food and Drink

I freely admit my love of Pizza Express’ version of the powerful sauce, a bottle almost always in my fridge in salad season

The second coming of smash burgers is cause for celebration because thin and flash-fried is how burgers should be

The small town of Barga in Italy celebrates Burns night in its own way

Is there no land so remote nowadays that its cuisine can’t receive the descriptor ‘street’ and be flogged from a stall at lunchtime to British workers?

It is the utilitarian nature of crêpes, their accessibility and the fact they enjoy French ceremony that I adore

Le Clarence trades in Parisian fine dining in its purest, truest form in matters of service and personality

They help the environment, but Brexiteers hate them because the idea came from the EU

In Britain, to source fine tomatoes is a burden. It is a sad state of affairs and requires logistics and hefty spending

Wiener schnitzel, born in Vienna, has its own form, its own magic

A new venture by BrewDog’s ‘captain and co-founder’ is not to be welcomed

It’s a very Anglo-European success, boasting a German founder, Dutch name and British customers

If doner meat thrust chaotically into fluffy bread is a surefire way to encourage sobriety in the UK, it is almost a religion in Berlin

There are rumours that a Labour government may try to put an end to Westminster’s drinking culture by shutting down the bars on the parliamentary estate

The internet is wilfully and demonstrably fickle. What then for restaurants reliant on influencers?

An incendiary book that makes the case for meat-eating has opened up a new rift in an already divided nation

Three out of the top five restaurants in the world were Spanish this year. Why?

A restaurant in Notting Hill is turning heads thanks to its new corkage policy: want to bring your own wine into Dorian? It’ll cost you £100

Cantiano’s idyllic setting seems at odds with the cruelty that goes on there

If the political food lens is switched on, the Labour leader is something of a masterchef

Why the fouée – soft, airy bread similar to pitta – hasn’t crossed the Channel is a mystery

Britain's restaurants could learn something from the casual establishments of Piedmont

Almost 2,000 restaurants went bust last year, but Rishi Sunak and co are apparently uninterested

It arrived nearly 100 years ago to little fanfare but is close to becoming a national obsession. How did Britain fall so hard for pizza?

Yotam Ottolenghi might be getting close to Jamie Oliver territory and that’s OK by me. He’s earned it

In Italy, one famous Neapolitan pizzaiolo is daring to change the city’s view of putting pineapple on pizza

To Liverpool, for lunch with a wonderful orator

In 2023, Catalonia’s drought halved wine production and this year is only expected to be worse

In Spargelzeit season, it’s hard to find a restaurant that doesn’t offer a special Spargel menu

It is sad and diminishing that our government is now effectively telling an important community it is no longer wanted

Convincing us to buy smaller versions of appliances we already own is one of capitalism’s big cons

Off the west coast of Norway lies an island luring countless tourists to its shores for its salmon

In Italy, food is political capital and Ferrero products are no exception