Northcote at Home: ‘Am I a fan? Yes’ – restaurant review
Christmas comes early with two gloriously indulgent gourmet boxes sent from Lancashire
Jay Rayner
The Christmas taste test challenge: the chef v the critic
Ravinder Bhogal and Jay Rayner eat their way through the supermarkets’ mince pies, cheese, chocolates and more. Whose verdict do you trust?
What does it take to get really great service in restaurants?
The first rule is, don’t be a complete schmuck…
What makes a restaurant a classic?
During this grim, hopefully fairly brief time when it’s impossible to go out to eat, Jay ponders what it is that the really great places have in common
Fussy afternoon tea, tedious tasting menus: luxury is overrated
The revelation came to me one Sunday morning in bed – sometimes the good things in life simply aren’t that good
I never set out to stick my knife into a restaurant – but some just deserve it
The Observer restaurant critic’s most biting reviews have now been collected in a book. Here, he defends the art of negative criticism – after all, it’s just a part of the job