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The Guinea Grill to launch set menu option in former Pizza Express
Dinner plans are afoot at the Guinea Grill, the Mayfair pub with a menu unchanged since 1951.
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Your choice or mine? Britain’s top chefs on the tasting menu question
Tasting menu? A la carte? Bit of both? How do we offer choice without waste? How do we reassure the accountant but also stay creative? How do we keep kitchen and front of house teams enthusiastic, and the experience fresh enough for guests to want to return?
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Horses for courses: Stuart Walton on tasting menu challenges
How many courses? Tasting menus, often, are where the finest and most progressive food is found. They can be the hallmark of quality – the bastion of high-end. But it is because of their notoriety that so many restaurants try. Many get them wrong, as Stuart Walton discusses.
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Cambridge chef Alex Rushmer on why he’s raising menu prices
‘Are you doomscrolling again?’ For me, the answer to that question is ‘yes’ so frequently that I’ve had to make a conscious effort to wean myself off the relentlessly dispiriting news cycle.
Local Guide
Where to eat in Exeter: Punchy street food, legendary pubs and a superb set menu
Exeter is a city encircled by tremendous rurality. Travel south, and there are prime scallops landed daily into Brixham. Head north, east or west, and you will soon arrive at rolling Dartmoor, find a small farm, or hit a keenly traversable coastline replete with cattle and sheep. It is, then, a place within easy reach of great ingredients, and in the city’s culinary landscape it is being increasingly turned into something memorable. Here, the West Country’s Mark Taylor earmarks numerous establishments worth visiting.
