Firebird, London W1: ‘They’re about setting the rulebook alight’ – restaurant review

The intriguing and appetising cooking puts this right up there on my list of 2022’s important openings

Note Dublin: ‘Bright-eyed enthusiasm’ – restaurant review

Dublin’s restaurant scene is hard to navigate, but at Note you’ll definitely be leaving on a high, says Jay Rayner

‘No economic case for it’: latest NSW voucher scheme criticised as pure politics

Economists question NSW’s growing number of voucher programs, saying the latest is about ‘retail politics’ not sound public policy

Sargasso, Margate: ‘Exquisitely good taste’ – restaurant review

They make the very best things look simple at this Italian-inspired fish-themed place on the Kent coast, writes Jay Rayner

Le Pont Bistrot, London SE1: ‘It looks like all of 7p has been spent on this refurbishment’ – restaurant review

Someone, somewhere, had at some point intended this fixture of riverside dining to be brilliant

I took the train to Düsseldorf – here’s my guide to the city

Next stop in our series marking the Interrail pass’s 50th birthday is a city in the heartland of industrial Germany, home to avant-garde art, electronic music and high fashion

Two pints of lager and a Michelin star: why gastropubs are roaring back

A new generation of top chefs are forgoing fine-dining restaurants for pub kitchens and the freedom to serve a tasting menu alongside a pint and casual snack

Claire Ptak’s secret ingredient: vanilla vodka

London’s star baker has a thrifty way to add a luxury fragrance and flavour to cakes, cookies, ice-cream – everything!

Eileen Atkins: ‘People told me not to go on the internet because I’m angry enough already’

Tears at lunchtime as the actor talks about her memoir, Doc Martin and Judi Dench’s baking skills

From Paris to Galway: expert foodies reveal the very best places to eat on holiday

Fred Sirieix’s guide to Paris, Girorgio Locatelli on Sicily, plus hidden gems in Copenhagen, Seville, Cornwall, Limassol, Amsterdam and Lisbon

The Seafood Cabin, Argyll: ‘Exactly right’ – restaurant review

The Kintyre peninsula is wonderfully empty – let’s hope the splendid Seafood Cabin doesn’t change that, says Rev Richard Coles

Here’s an answer to the restaurant staffing crisis: pick up the odd waiting shift to eat out

Perhaps the massed ranks of the middle aged could help out by waiting at table? I’ve got my apron ready…

Emma Willis: ‘I’m annoyed that I didn’t relish my Hollywood handshake’

The Cooking With the Stars presenter eats a lot of cake and doesn’t mind a microwave but won’t go near anything that has a shell

Bassenthwaite Lake Station, Cumbria: ‘Magical things are happening’ – restaurant review

I love an afternoon tea that incapacitates