Mar 14, 2021
Of all the eat-at-home boxes he has tested during lockdown, Andy Richardson finds a winner from a manor house in the north-west.
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Galloway beef with crisp shallot, smoked marrow, purple sprouting broccoli and artichoke
Restaurants will soon reopen. We are moving slowly out of lockdown to a place where we can again look forward to eating among friends and family in places we know and love.
The region’s restaurants are starting to plan, looking forward to bringing staff back from furlough and providing a boost for the producers who have also suffered during lockdown.
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Mar 7, 2021
From The Lakes to Birmingham to planning his own restaurant, Tom Shepherd has come a long way, writes Andy Richardson.
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Confit duck leg, celeriac wedges, celeriac purée and braised chicory
The politest letter of complaint dropped on our mat. We’re reviewing too many boxes, it said. We know, we thought, that’s because the restaurants are closed.
The portions are too small, it said. Our waistlines laughed all the way to the bathroom scales, by way of rebuttal.
These boxes don’t help anyone, it said.
Actually, they do. From the chefs to the kitchen porters, box meals are the only chance our fabulous hospitality industry has of earning a crust and without them many more would now be out of business.
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Andy Beynon on his Hackney restaurant Behind, and what it takes to win a Michelin Star in just 20 days David Ellis
Last week’s Michelin star announcements made some long held dreams come true. Hélène Darroze had a crack running through her voice as she accepted her third star for her restaurant at the Connaught, 10 years after she earned its second. In 2019, Tom Brown’s Cornerstone was the bookies favourite to win its first; it was only last week they joined the club. Some had waited far longer, others are still waiting.
The chef Andy Beynon didn’t need the same patience. When he won the first star for his Hackney restaurant Behind last week, he’d been open just 20 days – and even that wasn’t one run.