Feature
Decoding the wine list
For those not in the know, a wine list can serve up some bemusing terminology, we help you decode some of the most common terms
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Feature
Calling time on no-shows
As restaurants re-emerge from the coronavirus-enforced lockdown, the thorny issue of no-shows – people who make reservations but fail to show up for their meal – certainly hasn’t gone away.
News
The return of Roganic
Five years since it closed, Simon Rogan has relaunched a permanent version of his groundbreaking London pop-up, but does Roganic still cut it second time around?
Feature
Zeren Wilson on orange wine: the bottles to try right now
Fifteen years ago, nobody was drinking orange wine, right? Most of us had never heard of it, tasted it, and none of us had seen it occupy its own category on a wine list. Today, if you admit you’ve never tasted a ‘skin contact’ wine – as they’re also known – you might be tarred and feathered by your savvier pals and deemed to be a vinous ingénue for not keeping up with the cool kids.
Interview
John Williams
From chief potato-scraper for his mum to ruler of The Ritz’s famous kitchen, a life in food has made this chef ‘the luckiest man on earth’
