Interview
James Cross, Lake Road Kitchen
We talk to the head chef at the Lake Road Kitchen, Ambleside.
We talk to the head chef at the Lake Road Kitchen, Ambleside.
After a successful series of supper clubs and events, the chef Tunde Abifarin has announced his modern, 'pan-African' pop-up concept Farin Road will take up permanent residence at the independent Tani Modi cafe in Edinburgh next month.
There’s good eating to be had along the Bury New Road in Prestwich, says local resident and food and travel writer Clarissa Hyman.
In 2006, Gordon Ramsay banned mobile phones from his flagship restaurant on Hospital Road. YouTube was only a year old then and Instagram didn’t exist. Still, people must have been in there texting, or taking fuzzy pictures and posting them on Facebook.
When Raymond Blanc’s Les Quat’Saisons first appeared in the Guide in 1978, it declared ‘there is little better cooking for many miles’. By 1983 the Guide reported ‘this beautiful restaurant has outgrown its shop’ in a precinct on the Banbury Road and deserves 'a mansion with with two-hundred-year-old trees outside'.