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    • Monday, 20 November, 2023
      FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
      Jamie Oliver’s favourite London haunts

      On the eve of the launch of his new London restaurant, the TV chef reveals his top eateries and bars in the capital — and where you might spot him having a picnic

    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
      Seven of chef Paul Ainsworth’s top London restaurants

      The man behind Cornwall’s Michelin-starred Paul Ainsworth at No 6 shares his favourite places to dine when he’s back in the capital

      Paul Ainsworth at his Cornish restaurant, Paul Ainsworth at No 6
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      HTSI
      My spice roads

      On the eve of Diwali, the HTSI food writer celebrates the legendary local restaurants of his forefathers

      Veeraswamy on Regent Street in 1973
    • Monday, 9 October, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      Holy roast: the best of the City of London’s church cafés

      From crypt to cathedral, eight coffee stops in beautiful and historic places of worship

      The Wren Coffee at St Nicholas Cole Abbey, with large arched and stained-glass windows surrounding a space dotted with tables and chairs
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      The best pubs (and a wine bar) in London’s West End

      From hundreds of contenders, our tireless correspondents select their top 10 watering holes in the UK capital’s playground

      The Audley Public House in Mayfair, London: a Victorian-style pub with an orange, pink and blue ceiling painted by the late Phyllida Barlow
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      FT SeriesMen’s fashion special AW23
      Enter the ring – the quest for the perfect bagel

      When photographer Dan Martensen failed to find his favourite New York-style in London, he founded a bakery to make the things himself

      A poppy-seed bagel with The Works (schmear, lox, red onions and capers)
    • Tuesday, 25 July, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      Visual feasts: five of London’s best gallery restaurants

      Move over dry scones. A fine-dining revolution has taken the capital’s major art institutions by storm

      From left: ‘Young Man Holding a Skull (Vanitas)’, (1626-28) by Frans Hals. A selection of dishes on a table at Spring
    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      FT MagazineTim Hayward
      The Pelican, London: utterly lovely gastropubbery — review

      Some food pubs get away with doing the bare minimum. Notting Hill’s The Pelican does the opposite

    • Thursday, 6 July, 2023
      FT GlobetrotterThe wonder of Wimbledon
      Cream of the crop: where to enjoy strawberry season in London

      Nothing says Wimbledon and British summertime like this glorious berry. As well as the classic cream combo, here’s where to find the capital’s most creative concoctions

      A bowl of strawberries with almonds and green marzipan stalks at Claridge’s
    • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
      FT GlobetrotterThe wonder of Wimbledon
      First service: where to watch the tennis in style

      Some of the smartest spots in the capital for that Centre Court buzz, from an Art Deco icon on the King’s Road to a pontoon floating in the shadow of Tower Bridge

      Watching the tennis from the steps of Granary Square, King’s Cross
    • Thursday, 22 June, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      The best Japanese restaurants around the world

      Nikkei correspondents reveal their favourite places to find their home country’s cuisine at its very best

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      ReviewFT Magazine
      Nessa, London: ‘It feels a bit like the future’ — restaurant review

      A restaurant on the corner of old Soho and slick Mayfair brings out the best of both worlds

    • Tuesday, 18 April, 2023
      FT GlobetrotterGreener getaways from London
      Grace & Savour — an epicurean escape in the West Midlands

      A Michelin-starred dinner and stay on a Victorian estate that is now a byword for chic sustainability

      View through the windows of the walled garden at Hampton Manor
    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      HTSI
      Is Wiltons’ new coronation menu fit for a king?

      A first taste of the historic restaurant’s celebratory seven-course menu

      Citrus-cured Cornish monkfish with ginger, shallots, samphire and fennel
    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      Taste of spring: where to enjoy wild garlic in London

      Six restaurants that make the most of this aromatic — and delicious — seasonal treasure

      Flowering wild garlic
    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      FT GlobetrotterThe best Japanese restaurants around the world
      The best Japanese restaurants in London: an expat’s guide

      From udon noodles in the City to yakitori skewers in Hampstead, via a 10-course kaiseki menu in Marylebone, these tried and tested places are the real deal

      A chef at the wooden counter of Roketsu restaurant
    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      ReviewFT Magazine
      Mount Street Restaurant, London — historic fare with a modern twist in a sumptuous, Bond villain-ish setting

      You don’t have to be a food historian to appreciate this stuff, but there are a lot of nested insider jokes going on here

    • Monday, 20 February, 2023
      FT Globetrotter
      Eat to the beat: top London venues for dinner and jazz

      Seven spots where the combo of food and live music hits just the right note

      Trumpeter Jackson Mathod at Ronnie Scott’s
    • Monday, 6 February, 2023
      FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
      My west London, by artist and designer Yinka Ilori

      Ilori relishes the strong African and Caribbean culture, community-driven arts spaces and rich architectural history of an often-overlooked pocket of the UK capital

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      HTSI
      How mortadella got its mojo back

      The much-maligned salume is finally getting its due

      Mortadella on focaccia with pistachio at Eataly London
    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      FT MagazineTim Hayward
      Restaurant review: St John, Marylebone — ‘breathtaking’

      Can the cult restaurant’s new branch pass the rarebit test? Of course it can

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      FT MagazineTim Hayward
      Saltie Girl, London: seafood with grace and transatlantic flair — restaurant review

      The UK outpost of a successful Boston seafood operation offers brilliant ingredients, from world-beating langoustines to Spanish tinned clams

    • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
      FT SeriesHow to feel good in 2023
      Why you should be sipping a sea buckthorn

      Alexander the Great swore by its health benefits – and it makes a mean cocktail too

      A sea buckthorn cocktail at Himkok
    • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
      ReviewFT Magazine
      The Seaside Boarding House, Dorset: ‘navigate there at full speed’

      Rich, comforting cuisine to steady you beside the storm-thrashed Lyme Bay

    • Friday, 11 November, 2022
      Paul Murphy
      No more sausages: how a financial dispute brought down a City institution

      It is the ultimate irony that Simpson’s Tavern has fallen victim to the capriciousness of market forces

      Simpson’s Tavern has started a crowdfunder after it received a £385,000 bill from its Bermuda-based landlord that could force the centuries-old eatery to shut permanently
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