Chicken

Whatever happened to chicken à la king?

6 September 2025 9:00 am

As sure as eggs is eggs, what was once comfort food will be reinvented as fine dining. Lancashire hotpots will…

A wing – and a prayer

20 June 2020 9:00 am

Drive-through restaurants were invented so Americans could spend more time in their cars. I don’t blame them. American cars are…

‘Global Britain’ should learn from New Zealand’s mistakes

11 June 2020 11:00 pm

One of the greatest prizes from Brexit is the opportunity to make the Global Britain aspiration a reality. Included is…

The parking is better than the food: Nando’s reviewed

28 July 2018 9:00 am

Nando’s, c. 1987, is a restaurant in the Great North Leisure Park, Finchley, N12, off the North Circular, which is my…

Letters

5 August 2017 9:00 am

No reason for subsidies Sir: For believers in free enterprise like me, it was hugely disappointing to read that Sir…

Some animals are more equal than others

13 June 2015 9:00 am

Here are two parallel books, both by Americans, both 260 pages (excluding indexes) long, both using ‘likely’ as an adverb.…

Long life

23 May 2015 9:00 am

I have rather a poor record for speeding over the years. I have been caught by cameras quite often, sometimes…