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Josh Barrie
24 July 2024
Le Clarence is gold-medal dining
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Le Clarence trades in Parisian fine dining in its purest, truest form in matters of service and personality
Read the full article17 July 2024
Josh Barrie on food: The hunt for the perfect tomato
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In Britain, to source fine tomatoes is a burden. It is a sad state of affairs and requires logistics and hefty spending
Read the full article10 July 2024
Josh Barrie on food: The wiener schnitzel, a dish best enjoyed clothed
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Wiener schnitzel, born in Vienna, has its own form, its own magic
Read the full article03 July 2024
My tip for wannabe beer influencers
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A new venture by BrewDog’s ‘captain and co-founder’ is not to be welcomed
Read the full article26 June 2024
In praise of the German kebab
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If doner meat thrust chaotically into fluffy bread is a surefire way to encourage sobriety in the UK, it is almost a religion in Berlin
Read the full article19 June 2024
Where's the beef with influencers?
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The internet is wilfully and demonstrably fickle. What then for restaurants reliant on influencers?
Read the full article12 June 2024
To live in Spain is to eat
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Three out of the top five restaurants in the world were Spanish this year. Why?
Read the full article05 June 2024
Whining and dining
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A restaurant in Notting Hill is turning heads thanks to its new corkage policy: want to bring your own wine into Dorian? It’ll cost you £100
Read the full article29 May 2024
What we can learn from Starmer's salmon
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If the political food lens is switched on, the Labour leader is something of a masterchef
Read the full article22 May 2024
Fêtes and fouées
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Why the fouée – soft, airy bread similar to pitta – hasn’t crossed the Channel is a mystery
Read the full article15 May 2024
An ode to the piole
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Britain's restaurants could learn something from the casual establishments of Piedmont
Read the full article08 May 2024
Our restaurants are in crisis
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Almost 2,000 restaurants went bust last year, but Rishi Sunak and co are apparently uninterested
Read the full article01 May 2024
Britain’s masters of margherita
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It arrived nearly 100 years ago to little fanfare but is close to becoming a national obsession. How did Britain fall so hard for pizza?
Read the full article01 May 2024
Waitrose and Ottolenghi are a perfect pairing
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Yotam Ottolenghi might be getting close to Jamie Oliver territory and that’s OK by me. He’s earned it
Read the full article24 April 2024
Josh Barrie on food: Chicken Chasseur à la Les Dennis
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To Liverpool, for lunch with a wonderful orator
Read the full article17 April 2024
Josh Barrie on food: Why Italian chefs and waiters are saying goodbye to London
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It is sad and diminishing that our government is now effectively telling an important community it is no longer wanted
Read the full article10 April 2024
Josh Barrie on food: Salmon island
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Off the west coast of Norway lies an island luring countless tourists to its shores for its salmon
Read the full article03 April 2024
Josh Barrie on food: Risotto
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Pick up your pan, your spoon, your rice, and get stirring. Risotto is about to have a moment in Britain
Read the full article20 March 2024
Josh Barrie on food: Britalian food
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Creamy carbonara? It’s time to accept the silliness
Read the full article13 March 2024
Josh Barrie on food: British dining
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For all the failings of this country these past years, one industry that has improved, year after year, is restaurants
Read the full article06 March 2024
Josh Barrie on food: A dream sandwich
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A smoked meat sandwich might not sound like much. But it is the summit of what a sandwich can be: utterly, buoyantly delicious, and wholly inclusive
Read the full article28 February 2024
Josh Barrie on food: Asparagus is getting earlier every year
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As much as asparagus excites me – really it does – its increasingly early arrival is also a little unsettling
Read the full article21 February 2024
Josh Barrie on food: A red sauce joint
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Red sauce Italian restaurants are fortifying examples of immigration, a sign that people moving from one country to another brings intrigue and joy
Read the full article14 February 2024
Josh Barrie on food: Why we’re all clamouring for chocolate mousse
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A warm mousse is theatrical in its elegance. The kind of dish that is romantic
Read the full article07 February 2024
Josh Barrie on food: Tamworth’s hidden gems
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A trip to Staffordshire yields a worthy Nando's tribute outfit
Read the full article31 January 2024
Taste of Europe: Natasha Sideris’s porridge
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Porridge might not sound exciting but this one contains dates providing sweetness, the seeds a nice crunch and the coconut milk adding creaminess
Read the full article24 January 2024
Taste of Europe: Jeremy Lee’s Arbroath smokies
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There isn’t a flavour like the Arbroath smokie. It is salty, buttery and soft, bold and concentrated but to a remedial, soothing degree
Read the full article17 January 2024
Taste of Europe: Michel Roux Jr’s soufflé Suissesse
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This dish encapsulates more than anything the grandeur and the newness that changed dining in Britain forever
Read the full article10 January 2024
Taste of Europe: Cyril Lignac’s galette des rois
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As good as a fruit galette is, nothing rivals a galette des rois
Read the full article03 January 2024
Taste of Europe: Jamie Oliver’s ‘Trev’s chicken’
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Here’s a fun recipe of Jamie Oliver's, a chicken dish named after his dad
Read the full article20 December 2023
Taste of Europe: Davide Parato’s Panettimisu
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Not all Italians become upset when one of the country’s keystone desserts is meddled with, and this dish is a fine example
Read the full article13 December 2023
Taste of Europe: Maura Baxter’s turkey, ham hock and gruyère croquettes
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This dish is comforting, resourceful cooking and a tremendous way to use up turkey not eaten on Christmas Day
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