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‘I was wowed by some of the best executions of a particularly delightful Italian idiom that I’ve tasted in or out of Italy’
‘There can’t be a better place or time to be reviewing restaurants than right here, right now’
From an ‘irreplaceably wonderful’ visit to his ‘angriest experience of the year’, read our critic’s highs and lows
‘I would probably strangle my firstborn to eat the duck again’
Is Christmas best for six-year-olds? And was it better in the olden days? We rediscover the joy of festive excess
In the 1960s, this relentlessly English meal included Bisto gravy, dodgy cream liqueurs and straining waistbands — but it was so good
Tim Hayward selects his must-read titles
‘A piece of shortbread is evidence of the existence of God’
The hospitality industry is too complicated and fragmented to attribute difficulties to single causes
Tim Hayward visits the Herefordshire restaurant that helped start a revolution — and delights in every course
‘It’s as uncomfortable as Hell, with seating straight from the mind of Dante Alighieri‘
‘I want, with all my heart, to say I love it but I can’t. The food is competent, on-brand but soulless’
‘It’s often the scorned and forbidden that bring us maximum joy’
The libertines might have disappeared — but the steak is ‘the perfect evocation of the American Dream’
‘It’s muscular dude-food meets healthy eating, with an Italian accent’
Why make a reservation and then fail to show up?
‘The Asian salad was, without a shadow of doubt, the high point of my very greedy summer’
‘The Lambrusco tastes as if someone gave a five-year-old a home-brew kit, some Toilet Duck and an Alka-Seltzer’
Fire up the grill for this show-stopping summer party staple
‘Hallsworth is making the kind of food that people who love food, love’
Tim Hayward turns a family-sized piece of rump steak into the most expensive piece of bloke meat
Tim Hayward’s ode to an obscure and unique culinary treasure
‘If your menu choice is right, it’s a meal you’ll remember your whole life’
Plus: Cornelia Parker on making art out of cliché
Tim Hayward selects his mid-year reads
