Interview
Michel Roux
The legendary chef sees the bright side of everything – except badly cooked food and diners hooked on Instagram
The legendary chef sees the bright side of everything – except badly cooked food and diners hooked on Instagram
Even after scoring a perfect ten in the GFG for the past seven years, Simon Rogan certainly isn’t complacent about L’Enclume retaining its coveted number two spot.
Perhaps the most famous seafood restaurant in Britain first appeared in The Good Food Guide in 1984, although, as the Guide noted in 1986: ‘It has taken 11 years for the people around Padstow to discover the restaurant – now it is difficult to get a table and there are plans to expand.’ Now approaching its fourth decade, these excerpts from the first ten years outline the rise of the Padstein phenomenon.
It came as a complete surprise when, post-lockdown, Frances Atkins, the former owner and chef of the Yorke Arms at Ramsgill in Nidderdale, moved from her sophisticated restaurant with rooms to a café run from a silver Airstream caravan in the grounds of a garden centre near Harrogate.
The new GFG Wine Club in collaboration with Tiger Vines brings readers limited production, hard-to-find wines served at some of the UK’s leading restaurants.