36 h. ago Dorian, London: ‘Truly refined decadence’ – restaurant review

Dorian, London: ‘Truly refined decadence’ – restaurant review  The Guardian

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58 h. ago I finally tried the Notting Hill restaurant that's impossible to get into and I can see why A

In London's Notting Hill, Tom finds a secret dining space with surf, turf, style and swagger

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4 d. ago David Ellis reviews Ikeda: George Clooney's favourite, hidden in plain sight

London's oldest Japanese restaurant seems to be unknown to everyone but A-listers, says David Ellis

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6 d. ago Mauby Restaurant Brockley, London Review: A fabulously welcoming and affordable seasonal plates spot

Mauby Restaurant Brockley, London Review: A fabulously welcoming and affordable seasonal plates spot  Time Out

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1 week ago Voyage with Adam Simmonds, London NW1: ‘A bit like eating at a weight

Voyage with Adam Simmonds, London NW1: ‘A bit like eating at a weight-loss camp’ – restaurant review  The Guardian

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1 week ago Hilton turns 100 – and its Park Corner Brasserie still knows how to charm

In its centenary year, Hilton’s flagship London outpost offers a stay that’s equal parts old-school glamour and modern Mayfair polish – once you’ve survived the wait at check-in, that is. Lilly Subbotin checks in (eventually)

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1 week ago David Ellis reviews 27 Old Compton Street: the Spirit of Little Italy lives on at this £10 pasta joint

Nima Safaei has opened a restaurant that could fit every bill, says David Ellis

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1 week ago What do you get for £250 at Gordon Ramsay’s new chef’s table – and can £10 pasta compete?

From a sky-high tasting menu with seaweed beurre blanc to a walk-in Soho pasta bar slinging amaretto-laced ravioli, Hannah Twiggs launches her new column comparing high-end splurges and low-key gems – and finds fine dining isn’t always about the altitude

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2 w. ago ‘The physics community has never split like this’: row erupts over plans for new Large Hadron Collider

Ambitious project could soak up funding for subatomic physics for decades, say opponentsScientists are refining plans to build the world’s biggest machine at a site beneath the Swiss-French border. More than $30bn (£23bn) would be spent drilling a 91km circular tunnel in which subatomic particles would be accelerated to near light speeds and smashed into each other. From the resulting nuclear debris, scientists hope they will then find clues that would help them understand the detailed makeup of the universe.It is an extraordinarily ambitious project. However, it is also a controversial one – for many scientists fear the machine, the Future Circular Collider (FCC), could soak up funding for subatomic physics for decades and leave promising new research avenues starved of resources. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Restaurants worth travelling for: Billy Bob’s Parlour, Skipton

This might be the greatest place on the planet, says Dan Cullen-Shute — though having kids might have something to with that

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2 w. ago David Ellis reviews Tasca at Cav: A glowing light amid the Budget gloom

It looks as if someone attempted to open The Dover using their pocket money, says David Ellis, but Tasca at Câv offers beautiful food and fair prices

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3 w. ago La Cocina review – Rooney Mara gets stuck in in New York restaurant kitchen drama

The tempestuous chef trope has been done better elsewhere and this kitchen as a microcosm of exploited migrant workers is a disappointmentHere is a strangely exhausting movie, quaintly imagining the frenzied atmosphere of a New York restaurant kitchen as a microcosm of exploited migrant workers, full of macho shouting and self-conscious acting, with every speech a drama school audition piece. The Mexican film-maker Alonso Ruizpalacios has given us some terrific work in the past, such as his debut Güeros, his drama-thriller Museum and his rather amazing docudrama A Cop Movie, but I couldn’t make friends with this strained and histrionic picture. It is in English and Spanish, shot in black-and-white, but sometimes shifting to different colour filters, and inspired by The Kitchen, the 1957 stage play by Arnold Wesker.Raúl Briones (who was an officer in A Cop Movie) plays Pedro, one of the chefs, a hot-tempered guy who has already had a brawl in the kitchen the previous night. Anna Díaz...

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3 w. ago Bar Valette, London E2: ‘How to be truly relaxed while paying £11 for a bowl of kale’ – restaurant review

Bar Valette, London E2: ‘How to be truly relaxed while paying £11 for a bowl of kale’ – restaurant review  The Guardian

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3 w. ago David Ellis reviews bottomless lasagne restaurant Senza Fondo: how much can one man eat?

All-you-can-eat lasagne for £20 has this place booked out for three months. But is it any good? asks David Ellis

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