Interview
James Cross, Lake Road Kitchen
We talk to the head chef at the Lake Road Kitchen, Ambleside.
We talk to the head chef at the Lake Road Kitchen, Ambleside.
After a successful series of supper clubs and events, the chef Tunde Abifarin has announced his modern, 'pan-African' pop-up concept Farin Road will take up permanent residence at the independent Tani Modi cafe in Edinburgh next month.
When Raymond Blanc’s Les Quat’Saisons first appeared in the Guide in 1978, it declared ‘there is little better cooking for many miles’. By 1983 the Guide reported ‘this beautiful restaurant has outgrown its shop’ in a precinct on the Banbury Road and deserves 'a mansion with with two-hundred-year-old trees outside'.
A walk from Sloane Square to Pimlico Road through the back streets of Belgravia offers plenty of indulgent window-shopping, from posh shops to multimillion-pound townhouses. But the destination is our latest first look at Wildflowers, the new venue from chef Aaron Potter (formerly at Elystan Street.)
Silk handkerchiefs anyone? Small ears? Little tongues? Clattering with vongole, stuffed with fresh spinach and ricotta, or rich with a chill-beating ragù?