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.
Aldeburgh – delightfully – is really on the road to nowhere else but the rattling, shingle-braced North Sea. The town, with its colourful seafront cottages, has always drawn creatives: Maggie Hambling’s Scallop sculpture has stood for over 20 years on the beach towards Thorpeness, and the nearby Snape Maltings concert hall is world-class.
From Padstow’s heavyweight food scene to under-the-radar village gems, North Cornwall is quietly becoming one of Britain’s most interesting places to eat out. Bude native and writer Emma Henderson takes us on a culinary road trip around this beautiful area… just don’t call it Devon!
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'.