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Eating and drinking in London

  • Monday, 30 September, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    London’s bistro boom

    A new wave of restaurants is reigniting the capital’s love affair with classic French food. Here are six of the most magnifiques

    A selection of dishes on a white tablecloth-covered table at Joséphine, a west London restaurant
  • Wednesday, 25 September, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    The cult of St John

    As one of London’s most important restaurants turns 30, longtime devotee and FT food critic Tim Hayward celebrates its legacy

    A man sits a table with a white tablecloth in front of wine glasses and set of salt and pepper shakers
  • Saturday, 21 September, 2024
    FT SeriesThe FT Magazine’s Guide to the Business Lunch
    The FT’s favourite business lunch restaurants in London

    17 venues in and around the City worth rescheduling your 2pm for, and the best tables at each

    A stylish restaurant interior with round tables covered in white tablecloths, surrounded by wicker-backed chairs. Two black-and-white framed portraits hang on the wall
  • Wednesday, 18 September, 2024
    FT SeriesThe FT Magazine’s Guide to the Business Lunch
    The FT foreign correspondents’ guide to business dining around the world

    The top tables for breaking bread and sealing deals in great global cities

  • Wednesday, 28 August, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterObsessed with . . . 
    Obsessed with: figs, summer’s luscious swansong

    Across London’s restaurants, chefs are putting the late-season fruit in the limelight in all sorts of imaginative ways

    A plate of ‘fig carpaccio’ at London’s Lilienblum restaurant
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    London’s top sake spots

    Where to savour Japan’s national drink in all its versatility in the UK capital

    Rows of sakes on shelves in the window of London’s Sake Collective
  • Saturday, 24 August, 2024
    HTSI
    Has the open kitchen killed the ego chef?

    Restaurants are favouring more stage-like cooking spaces. It’s fostering a kinder workplace

    The basement kitchen at Carlotta
  • Friday, 23 August, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Five of London’s best Caribbean eateries

    There’ll be Caribbean food galore at this weekend’s Notting Hill Carnival, but the region’s cuisines are celebrated year round across the capital, from Anguillan fine dining to the original Jamaican roast dinner

    Jerk chicken and codfish fritters at Fish, Wings & Tings in south London A hand reaching towards a plate of jerk chicken and codfish fritters at Fish, Wings & Tings in south London
  • Tuesday, 16 July, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    A day on the farm with chef Simon Rogan

    The sustainability-driven superchef grows most of his restaurants’ produce on his farmstead in the Lake District, which this summer is offering a tasty peek behind the scenes at its workings

  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterObsessed with . . . 
    The best baklava in London

    The classic east Mediterranean pastry can be sampled in all its variety in the UK capital

  • Wednesday, 10 July, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Obsessed with . . . 

    FT writers reveal their local food fixations — and where to find them at their best

  • Sunday, 30 June, 2024
    HTSI
    How to spend it in July

    Where to shop, eat and visit this midsummer

    Zara Home x Collagerie canvas tablecloth, £29.99
  • Friday, 7 June, 2024
    HTSI
    The best smash burgers in the world

    Around the globe in American-style patties

    A bacon cheeseburger at the North London pop-up Supra Burger
  • Tuesday, 4 June, 2024
    How To Spend It In...
    Bridgerton star Victor Alli takes us to his Hackney manor

    For the East London actor, it’s all about cafés, culture – and the neighbourhood catwalk

    Victor Alli outside Lauriston Grocers, Lauriston Road, near Victoria Park, E8. He wears a Louis Vuitton suit
  • Monday, 27 May, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterObsessed with . . . 
    Gooseberries: the taste of the British summertime

    Warmer weather brings these translucent fruit, but their moment in the sun is fleeting. Catch them while you can in these creative takes on the menu at London’s top restaurants

    A row of red gooseberries hanging from a leafy thin branch
  • Monday, 13 May, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Stout and about: a Guinness pub crawl across London

    Our writer explores the rise of the capital’s most fashionable pint — and the pubs that conjure that all-important ‘Guinnessness’ vibe

    Customers standing at a bar lined with pints of Guinness at The Devonshire pub, Soho
  • Tuesday, 23 April, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
    James Brown of Blue Mountain School’s perfect Saturday in London

    The co-founder of the east London retail, art and restaurant space takes us on a whirl around his favourite shops, galleries and eateries in the capital

  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Forage, muddle and stir: a family cocktail masterclass in the Cotswolds

    A lesson in botanicals at Cowley Manor Experimental leads to some herbaceous creations — both boozy and non

    The honey-stoned neoclassical facade of Cowley Manor Experimental, a mansion in the Cotswolds, with its terraced lawns and pond in the foreground
  • Thursday, 7 March, 2024
    FT MagazineTim Hayward
    Camille, London: ‘Why have so few, if any, done this before?’ — review

    Your dream Parisian market café — in Borough Market

  • Wednesday, 28 February, 2024
    FT GlobetrotterObsessed with . . . 
    Forced rhubarb: the taste of spring

    Where to make the most in London’s restaurants of this bright delight that heralds winter’s end

    Rhubarb growing in a dark forcing shed in Wakefield, West Yorkshire
  • Monday, 15 January, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Five of the City of London’s top salad bars

    Fresh (and incredibly tasty) starts to the year in and around the Square Mile

    A bowl of salad against a yellow background at The Salad Project
  • Wednesday, 3 January, 2024
    FT Globetrotter
    Six of the best sandwich shops in the City of London

    We followed the queues to find the pick of the Square Mile, from old school to new wave

    A selection of Birleys’ sandwiches on a platter
  • Wednesday, 27 December, 2023
    FT Globetrotter
    London’s best new restaurants of 2023

    The table talks of the town, as selected by our resident gourmets

    Chef Tomos Parry (left) with his team in the kitchen at Soho’s Mountain restaurants
  • Monday, 11 December, 2023
    FT GlobetrotterObsessed with . . . 
    An ode to Brussels sprouts — and where to celebrate the divisive veg

    Love them? These London eateries take this wintry veg to new levels (even serving them in martini form). Hate them? You may well be converted . . . 

    Caramelised sprouts with bacon, chestnut and thyme in a round white dish beside a pile of raw sprouts on a table at west London’s The Pelican gastropub
  • Monday, 27 November, 2023
    ObituaryRussell Norman
    Russell Norman, restaurateur, 1965-2023

    A charismatic trendsetter whose restaurants popularised small plates, negronis and no-reservations dining in London

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