Feature
Piggy Bits - 2019 The Year of the Pig
Welcome in the Chinese Year of the Pig by going the whole hog. We share some porcine highlights from this year’s guide.
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Interview
Dave Wall, The Unruly Pig
We talk to the chef of The Unruly Pig in Bromeswell, Suffolk
News
Oli Brown and Ruth Leigh to open Updown, a restaurant with rooms in Kent
Duck Duck Goose chef-founder Oli Brown and partner Ruth Leigh – daughter of the esteemed Rowley – are opening a country restaurant with rooms this July, just outside the coastal town of Deal in Kent.
GFG archive
Through the archives: The Sportsman, Kent’s institution of a gastropub
Stephen and Phil Harris opened The Sportsman in November 1999 and the old white-painted pub made its first appearance in the Guide in 2002. It has long been one of the top dining destinations in the country, a remarkable achievement considering its refusal to conform to the dictates of fine dining – quite a shock to some in the mid-noughties. As the following excerpts show, Stephen Harris’s vision - delightfully simple, obsessively influenced by the raw materials available on the doorstep – has truly stood the test of time.
Feature
Elizabeth Carter on The Sportsman, Whitstable’s true dining destination
The Sportsman, number five on our Top 20 list, is nestled on the Kent coast, and has long been a destination for food lovers. Our editor Elizabeth Carter gives us a picture of then and now.
