‘You can’t run a team on empty’: how the restaurant staff meal is changing
Restaurant workers once lived on coffee and cigarettes. Now more chefs are cooking for one other, making food good enough to end up on the menu
Brutto, London: ‘The exceedingly good Italian we didn’t know we needed’ – restaurant review
The name means ugly, but Brutto’s dishes are a handsome, precise rendition of the Florentine trattoria
Worried about waste and having too much ‘stuff’? Get rid of the fitted kitchen
Our kitchen lives are changing for aesthetic and green reasons. I wonder if meat safes will make a comeback
Edith Bowman: ‘I had a hangover for most of my Radio 1 career’
The broadcaster on what she ate at her grandparents’ hotel, during her Radio 1 breakfast show and in a Japanese monastery
Hidden River Cafe, Longtown, Cumbria: ‘No wonder my friends were so excited’ – restaurant review
‘Off the beaten track and in the middle of nowhere: perfect’
One Chinatown restaurant has been a part of our family for years. Now we mourn its passing
We measured out the landmarks of our lives at London’s Y Ming. So long, and thanks
L’Artisan, Cheltenham: ‘They know what they are doing and they do it extremely well’ – restaurant review
Lovely French L’Artisan sends the sweetest of billets-doux from the mid-80s
Park Row, London W1: ‘It reminds me of a failed Christmas grotto’ – restaurant review
‘Even a hedge fund manager in an advanced state of refreshment would spot this as a massive, cynical waste of money’
The Seafood Bar, London: ‘The platters for one are enough to feed two’ – restaurant review
Sustainable, fresh and offering huge portions… Soho’s new seafood place will soon have you hooked, says Jay Rayner
Nama, Liverpool: ‘I was offered an edible balloon before the sashimi’ – restaurant review
It has a fine pedigree, but this Japanese-inspired fish stop in a food hall delivers one-note cooking backed by too many notes from a roaming brass band
Tacky or trendy? Fake flowers are ‘blooming’ all over the country
Instagram snaps of ‘floral’ walls are driving a boom in the plastic plants. But some are aghast at the aesthetic and ecological cost
Chakana, Birmingham: ‘It’s all kinds of fabulous’ – restaurant review
Built in an old bank in Birmingham, this Peruvian restaurant has an interest rate that’s sky high, says Jay Rayner
Ekstedt at the Yard, London SW1: ‘A bit like eating an actual plate of bonfire’ – restaurant review
Odd, a little challenging, but never, ever boring
Frozen in Time: Anthony Bourdain, New York, May 2001
Photographed for issue three of Observer Food Monthly, the chef is all innocence and enthusiasm, on the cusp of life-changing success
The day I cooked timpano with Stanley Tucci
The giant Italian pie was the centrepiece of the star’s Big Night film. Now he’s invited Jay Rayner round to his house to make it.