Memories of much-loved Nottingham restaurant where new retail park is now being built It was quite magical and exotic
The Château in Wilford Lane
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Fay Maschler and chefs, photographed for Observer Food Monthly in 2005. Clockwise from left: Giorgio Locatelli; Albert Roux; Matthew Harris; Maschler; Gary Rhodes; Cyrus Todiwala and Henry Harris; sitting, from left, Tom Aikens and Pascal Aussignac. Photograph: John Reardon
Fay Maschler and chefs, photographed for Observer Food Monthly in 2005. Clockwise from left: Giorgio Locatelli; Albert Roux; Matthew Harris; Maschler; Gary Rhodes; Cyrus Todiwala and Henry Harris; sitting, from left, Tom Aikens and Pascal Aussignac. Photograph: John Reardon
The doyenne of restaurant critics on working incognito, cooking as seduction and being vegetarian in Surrey in 1955
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If you’re going to do something that feels utterly filthy and wrong, it’s always good to believe you’re only following instructions. This is what I mutter to myself as I manipulate half a pat of room-temperature butter into a creamy overcoat for a raw chicken. I am only caking on the dairy fats because a cookbook has told me I must. I squeeze over the juice of a lemon, season liberally with salt and pepper, bang it into a hot oven and wait.
Cookbook titles tend towards the functional. It’s the food of this, or the book of that. And then there’s the best cookbook title of all time:
Albert Roux dies aged 85
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The Roux family has announced the sad passing of Albert Roux, who had been unwell for a while, at the age of 85 on 4 January 2021.
Chef, restaurateur, author and founder of the Roux Scholarship, Albert is credited, along with his late brother Michel Roux, with launching London s culinary revolution with the opening of Le Gavroche in 1967.
His son, Michel Roux Jr, said Albert s love of life and passion for making people happy through his food will be greatly missed: He was a mentor for so many people in the hospitality industry, and a real inspiration to budding chefs, including me.
Nostalgia: Looking back on some of Cork s best known former hotels
The Victoria Hotel, St. Patrick s Street, Cork pictured in November 1970.
Amy Nolan
CORK S hotel scene is expanding, with the newest addition opening earlier this week.
The Dean on Horgan’s Quay prides itself on being unconventional and describes itself as a design focused stay with cool and comfortable rooms filled with stuff to make you smile .
The striking seven storey building, designed by Irish firm Wilson Architecture, forms part of the new Horgan’s Quay development with views looking out to the River Lee.
Tram stopped outside the Victoria Hotel as a gentleman keeps up to date on Boer War outside the Cork Examiner office, Patrick St, on October 3 1899.