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Travel and restaurants

C’est chic

Overlooked for decades, ‘bouillons’ are enjoying a revival in Paris. We discover what is so special about these bustling restaurants that serve simple, homely food and pull up a chair to take a bite.

  • The Forecast #10
  • 6 min read
C’est chic
Food & Drink

From the ground up

Irish chef Darina Allen fears a loss of kitchen skills. The founder of Ballymaloe cookery school talks public health, the perils of oat milk and the need for an agrarian revolution.

  • The Forecast #10
  • 1 min read
From the ground up
Travel and restaurants

Critical mass

Restaurant openings can buoy neighbourhoods and set a city’s culinary agenda. We asked our favourite food writers for the inside scoop on the launches to look out for in the year ahead.

  • The Forecast #10
  • 7 min read
Critical mass
Food & Drink

Bowled over

Kagawa is a prefecture so enamoured with Sanuki udon noodles that the delicacy is both tourist attraction and TV star. We tuck in.

  • Issue #129
  • 10 min read
Four staff members smile outside a traditional Japanese udon restaurant with wooden signage and noren curtains.
Food & Drink

Getting a taste for it

Dining out in Japan’s capital never ceases to raise the culinary bar. We’ve picked out three venues that serve to highlight the city’s eclectic mix.

  • Issue #129
  • 6 min read
Two people in matching blue shirts and dark aprons stand side by side against a navy wall.
Food & Drink

Food & Drink

Must-visit venues, including an Italian-Japanese restaurant in east London, a canny vineyard close to Tokyo and a kitchen with French-Japanese flair in New York.

  • Issue #129
  • 3 min read
A narrow corridor between stainless steel brewing tanks leading to a warmly lit craft beer bar with bar stools.
Food & Drink

Tipping the scales

Kiyoshi Kimura splashes out to buy the first tuna of the year but the larger-than-life methods of Japan’s King of Tuna rely on getting the small details right.

  • Issue #129
  • 4 min read
A smiling older man in a grey suit and orange tie seated in what appears to be a Japanese restaurant.
Food & Drink

Choux of a kind

Expat baker Morihide Yoshida believes the success of his Paris patisserie reflects the common culinary bond shared by Japan and France.

  • Issue #129
  • 3 min read
A man holding a wine glass gazes to the side in front of a warm wood-panelled wall.
Food & Drink

All you can eat

Expecting guests? Then you’ll want to impress them with something unique. You don’t have to spend hours in the kitchen.

  • Issue #128
  • 9 min read
All you can eat

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