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GFG archive Published 23 May 2022

Through the archives: Joyce Molyneux, The Carved Angel, Dartmouth, Devon 1975-1999

Not for nothing was Joyce Molyneux celebrated as a leading chef. Highly acclaimed by The Good Food Guide, and the first female chef in Britain to be awarded a Michelin star (1978), the restaurant she founded and co-owned was at the forefront of modern British cooking in the 1970s and 1980s. The Carved Angel’s very first appearance in the Guide in 1975 gave notice that this was an extraordinary restaurant and it went on to become one of the most famous restaurants in the UK. Joyce Molyneux retired in 1999.

Local Guide Published 23 May 2022

Where to eat in North Norfolk: Talented chefs, enticing menus and coastal flavours

Revolution isn’t the first word that springs to mind when considering North Norfolk. Wild, windswept beaches? Yes. Vast skies over wide expanses of salt marshes, populated only by seabirds? That too. But revolution amid the little coastal villages with their pebbled cottages and ancient churches? Hardly.

Local Guide Published 19 May 2022

Where to eat in East Cornwall: Cosy village pubs and the finest fish in the land

In the sweeping wilds of East Cornwall, the cosiest of village pubs are found, where pirates might once have supped ale before taking to the sea. Like them, the coast is home to spoils and plunder - some of the finest fish restaurants in the land are found in the likes of Padstow and Rock. Stuart Walton explains where to tuck into the best of Cornish seafood.

Feature Published 17 May 2022

On Sheffield’s Kelham Island, restaurants have replaced cutlery works

When I was a teenager, oh, twenty years ago now, a few friends and I would walk all the way from Sheffield town centre to the industrial area of Kelham Island so we could drink in a ‘steelworker’s pub’ called The Fat Cat. At the time, it was the only authentic real ale pub in the city. I don’t know if they served food, we just went there to drink bitter pints of Old Peculiar, but if they did I never saw anyone eat there. Back then there was no other reason to venture to Kelham Island. It was a part of Sheffield that played the songs of the steelworks. The River Don flowed past warehouses and workshops and the air was filled with the sharp scent of metal.

GFG archive Published 16 May 2022

Through the archives: Shaun Hill – The Walnut Tree 2008-2020

The chef Shaun Hill has spent five decades behind the stoves. After finding fame feeding the diners of Ludlow (The Merchant House) and Devon – where he put Gidleigh Park on the gastronomic map – Shaun Hill reopened Franco Taruschio’s much-loved Walnut Tree in 2008, and quickly restored it to its former glory: though ‘glory’ may be too pompous an epithet for this whitewashed country inn on the B4521 near Abergavenny.

Feature Published 16 May 2022

‘Like London, New York is back’, says Tom Parker Bowles, who visits a classic American steakhouse

The room is as small as it is dark, little more than a 30-cover West Village basement with the feeling of a ship’s cabin. Albeit the Hollywood version of the Captain’s residence, all mahogany panelling, crystal chandeliers and banquettes clad in buttery soft leather. Like Carbone is to red sauce Italian joints, and Balthazar to the Parisian brasserie, 4 Charles Prime Rib is both tribute to, and pastiche of, the classic New York steakhouse.

Local Guide Published 16 May 2022

Where to eat in Bath: Modern dining and vintage charm from Somerset’s largest city

And so to Bath, with its ancient Roman pools, its sweeping Georgian architecture of crescentic gold. It is testament to Somerset’s largest city, historic as it is, that it would surge toward modern dining, all the while retaining its vintage charm. Here you will find one of the finest bakeries in the country, fine cheeses abound, and excellent Sicilian food uncommon in the West Country. Mark Taylor has the low-down.