Interviews

For more than half a century, Fay Maschler has defined London’s restaurant scene. As she receives the Lifetime Achievement Award from Good Food Guide’s sister title CODE, she walks Hilary Armstrong through a career shaped by curiosity, change and character, and makes it clear she has no intention of stepping away just yet.

Winner of the Roux Scholarship in 2009, French-trained chef Hrishikesh Desai has made an indelible mark on British fine dining with his beguiling blend of classical technique layered with Indian flavours. The result, in evidence at his restaurant Cedar Tree at Farlam Hall in Cumbria, is thrillingly delicious.

Chef and author Maria Bradford is to open her debut restaurant, Shwen Shwen by Maria Bradford in Sevenoaks, Kent, on Friday 6th June. Food writer Hilary Armstrong interviewed her for The Good Food Guide’s sister publication CODE Hospitality to find out all about her new opening.  Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone, Bradford learned to cook at the age of nine ...

At the end of summer 2024, British Chinese baker Wing Mon Cheung and her partner Niall Furlong packed their belongings into the back of a van and set out from Bath. Journeying north for 625 miles would take them to the tiny settlement of Tongue on the north coast of Scotland, a wildly remote location to set up their very ...

As our Best Local Restaurants 2025 campaign gets underway, we sat down with Sam Pullan from 2024’s list, about the spirit of Leeds, and what it means to be named a Best Local Restaurant.

Ahead of her Claridge’s Kitchen Supper Series dinner, we caught up with Roberta Hall-McCarron to talk about bringing Scotland to London in this one-off collaborative event.

We caught up with Cibus, the North West’s Best Local Restaurant 2024.

We caught up with the legendary Pierre Koffmann to chat about Sunday Roasts.

Jack Southan co-owns Med, The Good Food Guide’s Best Local Restaurant in the South East 2024.

Teej Sparks is the co-founder of Wales’ Best Local Restaurant 2024, Inn at the Sticks. How have they been celebrating the win? The Good Food Guide finds out.