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Australian chef Brett Graham’s Notting Hill restaurant reopened in February 2022 after a brief pandemic hiatus. The new-look Ledbury is more than ever before an expression of Graham’s passion for produce. Beef and Iberian pork come from his own animals; venison from the deer parks he operates (Aynhoe Park and Boughton House); and mushrooms from the state-of-the-art, moisture-controlled cabinet at Read more...
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It was his then-boss Pierre Koffmann who encouraged French-trained Indian chef Sameer Taneja to try his hand at Indian cooking. It was good advice. For Taneja is now executive chef at Benares, having taken over from founding chef Atul Kochhar in 2018. The smart Berkeley Square spot remains one of London’s premier addresses for modern Indian cooking, with an offering Read more...
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Opened in 2004 as a sister restaurant to the similarly beloved Chutney Mary and Veeraswamy, Amaya is one of the original examples of Indian fine-dining Indian in London. Head chef Sanchit Kapoor’s focus is on grilled dishes, such as wild prawns, smoked chili lamb chops or wild venison tandoori, along with wonderful house-made paneer served with basmati rice that has Read more...
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Umu, entering its 20th year, is the only restaurant to have survives the collapse of Marlon Abela’s M.A.R.C group; it now operates independently from its Mayfair mews home. Executive chef Ryo Kamatsu has spoken louder and longer than any in London about ikejime, the traditional method of handling fish practiced in Japan since the 17th century. His menus champion line-caught Read more...
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Rick Stein’s Seafood Restaurant in Padstow – or Padstein, as it has come to be jocularly known – has kept this Cornish seaside resort in visitors since 1975. Stein himself is unlikely to be in the house, but his presence is felt on chatty menus chock-full of his greatest hits. XO Clams, deep-fried camarones with migas, Frank Hederman’s smoked salmon Read more...
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Gareth Ward has transformed fuddy-duddy Ynyshir Hall in the remote Welsh countryside into Ynyshir – no longer a country house hotel but a progressive and provocative restaurant-with-rooms. Since moving to Wales after three years at Restaurant Sat Bains and five at Hambleton Hall, Ward’s developed an obsession with Welsh wagyu from local farmer Ifor Humphreys in Montgomery, which he ages Read more...
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Cutting-edge technique is pressed into mother nature’s service at L’Enclume, Simon Rogan’s pioneering restaurant-with-rooms in the Lake District. Over 17 years in Cartmel, Rogan has calibrated his cuisine in tandem with his organic farm, a five minute drive from the restaurant’s door, to mirror the landscape and seasons. If there’s such a thing as a typical dish, it might be Read more...
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Jockeying for position at the top of Britain’s culinary premier league is Sat Bains, at the stove of his eponymous Nottingham restaurant-with-rooms since 1999. The location is famously unlovely (under a flyover off the A52), but Bains’ food and the welcome from his wife, Amanda, are the opposite. Self-taught, Bains has developed a style that is imaginative and experimental, segueing Read more...









