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Cheesy does it - The best of British cheese
As chefs look to support local producers, we’re seeing more and more British cheeses on menus around the country.
As chefs look to support local producers, we’re seeing more and more British cheeses on menus around the country.
A blazingly talented chef who cooks with vigour, authority and audacious brio, Brett Graham has been hailed as a pioneer in the development of British modernism – delivering the kind of cooking that saw The Ledbury (which opened in 2005) catapulted into the first division of London dining. The restaurant closed in 2020 when Covid-19 restrictions made it too difficult to operate, but it reopened, relatively quietly, in February 2022. Here, we look at its earliest entry to the Guide in 2007, with inspectors hailing a ‘superbly judged’ raviolo of crab and a meat dish that proved to be a ‘lesson in balance’.
Restaurateurs and writers speak to Tessa Allingham about the joys of eating out after months of restaurant closures
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For the last ten years, Edinburgh behaved like Glasgow’s highfalutin sibling when it came to food – the East did fine and fancy; the West did cool and casual. But more recently, the Clydesiders have been busy grabbing stars, and things in the Capital have started to mellow. Photographer James Porteous, an Edinburgh resident, gives us a personal tour.