GFG archive Published 12 September 2023
From the GFG archives: Chez Nico scores a perfect 10
In the 1998 edition of The Good Food Guide, Nico Ladenis scored a perfect 10 for Chez Nico at Ninety Park Lane. Here’s what the Guide had to say.
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GFG archive Published 22 August 2023
Le Gavroche through the archives
It is worth remembering that when Albert and Michel Roux opened Le Gavroche in 1967 – decamping from Lower Sloane Street to Upper Brook Street in 1981 – they introduced top-class gastronomy to the UK.
GFG archive Published 07 December 2022
Back through the archives: Langan's Brasserie
The great chef Richard Shepherd died on 23 November, 2022. Here, we offer a snapshot of his time at Langan’s Brasserie. The year was 1978, early into a tenure that spanned more than 30 years.
GFG archive Published 12 October 2022
Through the archives: The Top 50 Restaurants 2010
British dining has come a long way since 2010, and much has changed. Before we announce our 'Top 20 most exciting restaurants in Britain' list on 17 October, we journey back to a time when The Fat Duck was the place to be, and Gordon Ramsay wasn't quite - quite! - as famous.
GFG archive Published 27 September 2022
Through the archives: Four restaurants that have stood the test of time
As hard as it is to open a successful restaurant, it’s even harder to keep it successful – surviving in our vibrant and competitive dining scene is no easy feat. So, let’s celebrate four classic restaurants that have found ways to stay relevant and modern, maintaining their reputations for four or more decades.
GFG archive Published 21 September 2022
Through the archives: Andrew Edmunds
The restaurateur and art dealer Andrew Edmunds has died at the age of 79. As friends and family pay their respects, and countless peers and customers remember him, we look back at two Guide entries that go some distance to summing up the mark he made on Britain’s culinary scene.
GFG archive Published 05 September 2022
Through the archives: Claude Bosi at Hibiscus
Eating food cooked by Claude Bosi is memorable: high on flavour, high on thought and inspiration; witty and wide-ranging in technique; dishes that lean on a new generation’s interpretation of classical French cuisine. But when the chef first moved into the West End from his established base in Ludlow, Shropshire in 2007, there were some who wondered whether Hibiscus was ...
GFG archive Published 22 August 2022
Through the archives: Brett Graham at The Ledbury, first entry
A blazingly talented chef who cooks with vigour, authority and audacious brio, Brett Graham has been hailed as a pioneer in the development of British modernism – delivering the kind of cooking that saw The Ledbury (which opened in 2005) catapulted into the first division of London dining. The restaurant closed in 2020 when Covid-19 restrictions made it too difficult ...
GFG archive Published 16 August 2022
Through the archives: Steven Smith at the Freemasons Arms at Wiswell
It may be tucked away in a tiny Ribble Valley village, but such is the flair of Blackburn-born Steven Smith’s cooking, and the relaxed informality of his no-nonsense pub setting, that people track it down, hungry to eat first-rate food at one of the best pubs in the North.
GFG archive Published 08 August 2022
Through the archives: Alastair Little, 1950-2022
Described as ‘one of the young tigers who are re-defining British cooking’ by the 1989 edition of The Good Food Guide, Alastair Little, who died last week, defined a generation of chefs. His Soho restaurant, simply called Alastair Little, opened in 1985 and ran for 17 years, and was seen as ‘a beacon of innovation’. We look back at his ...
