Restaurant review: Apsleys, London SW1 | Matthew Norman
Posted by edwina 16 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Heinz Beck is a German superchef whose restaurant in Rome is deemed one of the world's best. Now he's opened in London. But why should Matthew Norman care?In an age of innocence long before that little poppet on the Glade advert stated his desire to evacuate his bowels at Paul's, the TV ad that drove me closest to psychosis concerned microwavable pizza. It wittered on, in a Mind Your Languag
Mat Follas, 2009 MasterChef winner, has opened a restaurant. Has he bitten off more than he can chew? Far from itAdducing a corpse as a witness for anything is a cheap and distasteful gambit, so let me begin by suggesting that Keith Floyd, who died after lunching elsewhere in Dorset a few days after our visit, would have adored Mat Follas's first restaurant and might even have identifie
Restaurant review: Opus, Birmingham | Matthew Norman
Posted by edwina 72 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
A testament to the transformative power of fine cookingSuch an arduous day had it already been, with many hours on jammed motorways either side of a vast lunch in Bradford, that spirits were low and intestinal acid levels high as we reached Birmingham. What are you hoping for from Opus, I asked the friend known as the Idiot, thanks to an addiction to hideous punning."What I hope," he replie
Cooking ain't rocket science, says a dejected Matthew Norman after his worst meal of the yearScore 1/10Address The Royal Institution of Great Britain, 21 Albemarle Street, London W1Telephone 020-7670 2956Open Mon-Sat, lunch noon-2.30pm, dinner 6-9.30pmHave you ever set eyes on an overweight scientist? No doubt there are portly physicists, chunky chemists and other alliterative fatties waddling am
What should we expect of Norman Tebbit's game cookbook?
Posted by edwina 189 days ago (http://www.guardian.co.uk)
Another forgotten celebrity steps out of the shadows with a cookbook. Should we read it?Here's a liberal dilemma for you. Is it still OK to tap your foot to a Gary Glitter record now his proclivities are a matter of public record? Of course, you fume, lunging for the comment box. To reject Glitter's creative oeuvre on the basis of his sexual transgressions would liberate an enormous tin of ethica
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