36 h. ago The biggest food and drink stories of 2025, from Pizza Express to M&S' strawberry sandwich

Did you manage to get your hands on a 33p margherita at Pizza Express?

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62 h. ago This is officially the best new London restaurant that opened in 2025

This is officially the best new London restaurant that opened in 2025  Time Out Worldwide

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3 d. ago The Best Sushi Restaurant in London Has Been Crowned For 2025 by Time Out

The Best Sushi Restaurant in London Has Been Crowned For 2025 by Time Out  Time Out Worldwide

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5 d. ago The myth of traditional Italian cuisine has seduced the world. The truth is very different | Alberto Grandi

The comforting tourist-brochure idea of what Italian food looks like obscures a story shaped by hunger, migration and innovationAlberto Grandi is the author of La Cucina Italiana Non Esiste and a professor of food history at the University of ParmaItaly’s cuisine has now joined Unesco’s “intangible” heritage list, an announcement greeted within the country with the sort of collective euphoria usually reserved for surprise World Cup runs or the resignation of an unpopular prime minister. Not because the world needed permission to enjoy pizza – it clearly didn’t – but because the news soothed a longstanding national irritation: France and Japan, recognised in 2010 and 2013, had beaten us to it. For Italy’s culinary patriots, this had become a psychological pebble in the shoe: a tiny, persistent reminder that someone else had been validated first.Yet the strength of Italian cuisine has never rested on an ancient, coherent culinary canon. Most of what passes for ancient “regional tradit...

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7 d. ago ‘Every chef should train here’: Turkish restaurant ranks fourth on list of London’s top food spots

Enfield’s family-run Neco Tantuni, which specialises in Turkish street food, secured place among other Michelin-starred restaurants on Vittles 99-strong listOn a list of London’s best restaurants, you would expect to see the usual Michelin-starred suspects such as The Ledbury, Ikoyi and The Ritz. But high among these culinary heavyweights sits a humble salonu tucked away in the depths of north London.Neco Tantuni, a small Turkish eatery specialising in the foodie delights of Mersin, a city located on the southern coast of Turkey, has been crowned the fourth best restaurant in London by Vittles, the trendy food magazine that has become a bible for those looking for the best (and more off-the-radar) grub in the capital. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago I ate 3,000 meals for my ‘best of London restaurants’ list – and I hope you disagree with it | Jonathan Nunn

From pie-and-mash to the swank of a Michelin star, everyone has their own idea of what’s ‘best’. What’s yours?Jonathan Nunn is the author of London Feeds ItselfAlmost 24 years ago, a small British food magazine called Restaurant assembled an all-star panel – made up of Gordon Ramsay, John Torode, Aldo Zilli and 65 other food guys – to adjudicate on the world’s most stupid question: what is the best restaurant on the planet? It didn’t matter that no judge had been to all the restaurants on the shortlist, or that two of the judges happened to be Jeremy Clarkson and Roger Moore – what the editors of Restaurant understood is that people love a list, and if you order a group of restaurants from 50-1 and throw a party, people might take it seriously.“This could run and run,” the editors wrote in their intro, half hoping. They were right. Within two decades, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants had gone from what critic Jay Rayner described as a “terribly successful marketing exercise” to an in...

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8 d. ago David Ellis's 12 favourite restaurants of 2025, from Martino's to Eel Sushi Bar

The Standard’s restaurant critic on the very best of everything he ate this year

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9 d. ago Last meal request for Georgia killer set for execution includes meat lovers pan pizza and cornbread

Stacey Humphreys is set to be executed next Wednesday

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9 d. ago I've been to 49 new Edinburgh restaurants in 2025, but returning to this old favourite was bliss

I revisited a place that I love

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2 w. ago Denny’s reassures fans about future of chain after closing hundreds of stores and $620 million sale

Denny’s planned in 2024 to close 150 underperforming restaurants by the end of 2025, most of which preceded the $620 million buyout

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2 w. ago London Restaurants with Great Festive Set Menus for Christmas 2025

London Restaurants with Great Festive Set Menus for Christmas 2025  Time Out Worldwide

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2 w. ago 12 of the best Christmas menus in London, at every price point

From festive pizzas to pigs-in-blanket burgers, here are 12 restaurants serving Santa in 2025

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2 w. ago 'I visited the Greek bistro named London's number one best restaurant of 2025

'I visited the Greek bistro named London's number one best restaurant of 2025 - and it was a bargain'  My London

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3 w. ago The world’s best pizza chain has been crowned for 2025 – and it has two restaurants in London

The world’s best pizza chain has been crowned for 2025 – and it has two restaurants in London  Time Out Worldwide

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3 w. ago 10 of the best Christmas menus in London, at every price point

From festive pizzas to pigs-in-blanket burgers, here are 10 restaurants serving Santa in 2025

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4 w. ago Scotland’s best bar, hotel and restaurant named at glitzy 2025 Thistle Awards

SCOTLAND'S best bar, restaurant and hotels were all crowned at an event dubbed the Travel Oscars last night. The Scottish Thistle Awards revealed its 2025 national winners at the Hilton Glasgow. Finalists who triumphed in regional awards earlier this year competed for coveted national trophies, earning recognition for their outstanding contribution to Scotland’s tourism industry....

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