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On The Menu: Parlour; Opera Tavern; Dude Foods; Sous Chef; Roti Chai
Thursday 03 January 2013
This week I've been eating...fun foods
'Vocal' chicken saves couple from house fire
Friday 28 December 2012
An American couple escaped a house blaze after their pet chicken alerted them to the fire.
Wines of the Week: Terry Kirby selects the best bottles for Christmas Day
Sunday 23 December 2012
It is the day before Christmas Eve and too late to order your festive wines online. So here are three versatile, value-for-money bottles you can find in a quick tour of your local high-street stores.
John Salt, 131 Upper Street, London N1
Sunday 16 December 2012
Can Ben Spalding, once of Roganic, bring the house down with his masonry exploits?
End of days in Berkoff's home patch
Saturday 15 December 2012
When Steven Berkoff was on the film set of The Girl with a Dragon Tattoo in LA, he often sneaked off to take photographs of downtown slums and nearby 1940s diner-style restaurants.
Christmas lights - is it just festive ‘peacocking’?
Thursday 13 December 2012
The festive season is here, and so are the shiny, sparkly, twinkling decorations to go with it.
The best way to punish Amazon for avoiding tax is to shop elsewhere this Christmas
Tuesday 11 December 2012
We know the company minimises its tax bill, so why do so many of us still shop online there? Laziness, mostly, says our writer
Richard Corrigan: 'I love it when the heat of mustard makes your eyes water'
Sunday 09 December 2012
My earliest memory… Mum making bread. She made fresh bread every day and the smell was just incredible. I could live off warm crusty bread with butter and nothing else – it’s one of life’s greatest pleasures.
London restaurant owner batters rat to death in the middle of environmental health inspection
Monday 03 December 2012
Rajakumar Rajalingam has been ordered to pay nearly £20,000 in fines and court costs after pleading guilty to a string of food safety and trading standards offences
Harriet Walker: Winter food should be snuggly
Sunday 25 November 2012
I very nearly ordered a veal's head in Paris last weekend. I couldn't help it – I've been conditioned by so many trendy new London openings into thinking that eating out should be an experience akin to going to a theme park, with the point of ordering like the slow ascent up the initial climb, and the presentation of the dishes that heady, brief pause before you whoosh into the om-nom-nomming of stuffing your face, as if your mouth were bagged open on the descent by G-force.
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What, let gays get married? We must be bonkers
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Rocky Horror star Tim Curry 'suffers major stroke'
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Exclusive: How MI5 blackmails British Muslims
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EDL marches on Newcastle as attacks on Muslims increase tenfold in the wake of Woolwich machete attack which killed Drummer Lee Rigby
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Farewell, Shameless. Your heirs have work to do
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