Spain’s hot restaurants: the top new chefs and where to discover them

As the Madrid Fusión food festival begins, meet the country’s rising culinary stars and chew over a trip to their restaurants, where there are affordable menus to be enjoyed before fame strikes

Top tipple: rare whisky outperforms wine and gold as 2015 investment

Leading index for scotch whisky rose 14% last year, while wine fell 0.4%, gold was down 10% and FTSE 100 index lost 4.9%

Wine: why don’t labels list ingredients?

Food products have to provide a list – it’s about time wine producers followed suit

Chateau shuffle-off: Alain Ducasse’s final meal

It has to be the gardens of Versailles in springtime, when nature is at its most generous, and offers an abundance of green and white vegetables

Edible cocktails: when a drink is not just a drink

Cosmopolitans leave you jaded? G&Ts are a bore? Then perhaps the new trend for booze-infused nibbles will be the perfect pick-you-up

The best food they ate in 2015

Kebabs in Istanbul, sea urchins in County Cork, a sensational lobster pasta in London: top chefs and food writers share their favourite meals this year