Alas, No Guinea Pig: Ceviche vs Senor Ceviche
Peruvian food, particularly ceviche, has become the favourite cuisine of London. Appearing in one form or another on most middle and top …
Bugger Rocksalt: Go to The Smokehouse!
Mark Sergeant’s Rocksalt in Folkestone has been a disappointing meal on several occasions for IGT. Leave it out, and go enjoy some unpretentious fish and chips (along with the odd tasty twist on the menu) at his other venture, The Smokehouse.
The Square, Hong Kong
Against a backdrop of high-end Hong Kong restaurants pushing novel luxury ingredients into their dishes, IGT looks for the traditional, done properly, dropping in at a rare old-school Cantonese restaurant.
La Copine, California
Meditating on the trans-Atlantic life trajectory, moving from coast to coast before beating a retreat inland. And, because it’s IGT, booze, brisket and beignets all feature, naturally.
Spuntino – The Odd Polpo Out
Spuntino is a New York speakeasy-cum-restaurant which IGT’s Food Editor suspects might be the personal pet favourite of Polpo Group boss Russell Norman. He investigates, and hopes that the love that’s gone into the “odd Polpo out” might point to the speedy return of Mishkin’s
Review: Bluebird, Chelsea
Bluebird in Chelsea has had a revamp and a revving up. It hasn’t been without scepticism from the locals, regulars, and grandees, so naturally IGT’s biggest grandee had to be on the grid to get the measure of it.
Bentley’s at 100
Bentley’s has hit the hundred year mark this September. With some of the capital’s other older institutions either shaky, or indeed gone entirely, IGT visits the Swallow Street staple to see how she’s doing at her centenary.
Review: Private Dining at Blanchette
As the sharing style French bistro strikes out from Soho to establish an east London outpost, IGT’s very own food editor returns to the original’s Jungle Room for a taste of private dining.
Review: Bao
With mouth-watering Instagram photography and queues down the streets at their three locations, Taiwanese street food top dogs Bao have a lot of hype to live up to.
Beyond the Olympics: Five Rio Food Favourites
Rio de Janeiro is about to host the world’s greatest sporting spectacle, but it’s home to something else much closer to our hearts at IGT – cracking food and drink.