23 h. ago Top Michelin chefs reinvent 'lunch al desko' with gourmet feasts for just £3

The chef duo Michelin Guide hotspots Fallow, FOWL and Roe - Will Murray and Jack Croft - claim to have reinvented the reviled supermarket meal deal

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9 d. ago Lobster bisque and onion soup on ISS menu for French astronaut

Chef with 10 Michelin stars has designed meals for Sophie Adenot’s trip to International Space Station next yearEven by the exacting standards of France’s gastronomes, it sounds like a meal that is truly out of this world. When the French astronaut Sophie Adenot travels to the International Space Station next year, she will dine on French classics such as lobster bisque, foie gras and onion soup prepared specially for her by a chef with 10 Michelin stars.Parsnip and haddock velouté, chicken with tonka beans and creamy polenta, and a chocolate cream with hazelnut cazette flower would also be on the menu, the European Space Agency said on Wednesday. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘My grandmother never used yuzu’: global gastronomy is out as Catalan chefs celebrate tradition

Top chefs in this year’s World Region of Gastronomy are looking back as they shift from avant-garde cuisine to something more homespun They revolutionised cooking worldwide with radical techniques and a highly technical cuisine of playful trompe l’oeil – but now many disciples of Catalonia’s iconoclastic chef Ferran Adrià believe it’s time to get back to their roots.Catalonia has been named World Region of Gastronomy 2025 by the International Institute of Gastronomy, Culture, Arts and Tourism and later this month 60 Michelin-starred chefs will launch a campaign to position Catalonia as a unique and exceptional gastronomic destination. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Heston Blumenthal reveals he 'thought about different ways of ending his life'

The London-born celebrity chef, who holds a total of seven Michelin stars, was diagnosed with bipolar disorder after being sectioned - on the insistence of his wife - in November 2023.

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4 w. ago Chef wins £20,000 payout after boss ranted about ‘unreliable Mexicans’ and threatened to get him deported

Mr Rockcliff made a social media post ranting about Michelin trained chefs ‘with sautéed egos’

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4 w. ago Michelin chef wins £20,000 payout after boss ranted about 'unreliable Mexicans' and 'threatened to call the Home Office'

A tribunal heard the comments came after Cesar Omar Perez Vargas walked out of a busy Sunday shift because he had been given more customers than he was contracted to serve.

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4 w. ago The Ritz chef claims his £221 menu is 'the best value in London'

The Ritz Restaurant executive chef John Williams MBE (pictured) says the hotel's two-Michelin-starred restaurant's £221 tasting menu is the 'best value in London',

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4 w. ago Rachel Roddy’s salad of hazelnuts, gorgonzola and honey dressing | A kitchen in Rome

Some dishes make a lasting impression, and this week two memorable creations from Rome and London meet to inspire a nutty salad of creamy gorgonzola and mixed leavesRecently, I listened to the Italian chefs Niko Romito and Salvatore Tassa in conversation about Italian food culture, and in particular the role of the trattoria. During the warm conversation, Romito, who is one of Italy’s most visionary chefs and whose Ristorante Reale in Abruzzo has three Michelin stars, spoke about the first time he ate at Tassa’s Nu’ Trattoria Italiana dal 1960 in Acuto, which is in the province of Frosinone about an hour south of Rome. Romito recalled the homely atmosphere and Tassa as an old-school host: welcoming, communicative and the conduit (which didn’t sound pretentious when he said it) between local traditions, producers and those who came to eat. But Romito also described a dish of onions, simply braised, but of such goodness that he couldn’t stop thinking about and imagining them. In fact,...

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last month Angelo Sato’s London: Humble Chicken's Chef Picks His Top Restaurant

Angelo Sato’s London: Humble Chicken's Chef Picks His Top Restaurant  MICHELIN Guide

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