Jay Rayner
Why the Restaurant Industry Is Done with Angry Chefs
After critic Jay Rayner accused Gordon Ramsay-style kitchen outbursts of “glamourising bullying,” are restaurants calling time on abusive chef behaviour?
We Asked French Food Critics What They Think About Jay Rayner's Le Cinq Review
The Observer food critic branded the Michelin-starred Paris restaurant the “worst restaurant experience I have endured in my 18 years in this job.”
Back-to-Basics Farming Is the Only Way to Save Beef
“It’s quite clear that we should be eating less beef, but to a higher standard.” Here's how.
We Asked Industry Experts What the Restaurant of the Future Will Look Like
Will robots waiters be taking our orders? If tables will have built-in cameras, will we ever need to Instagram again?
How I Learned to Un-Cook Meat and Make Better Steaks
I’ve worked for some of the best chefs in the world—Marco Pierre White, Alain Ducasse, the Roux brothers—but since cooking on charcoal and live fire, I’ve had to learn to un-cook, to keep things really simple.
This Chef Is Trolling TripAdvisor with Crazy Reviews of His Own Restaurant
"I wanted to show how bullshit it is," says Gary Usher, the Chester chef whose fake write-up has been praised by food critics including Jay Rayner for exposing TripAdvisor's questionable review screening process.
Meet the 'King of the Food Bloggers' Who Discovered Run DMC and Owns Robot Wars
Founder of high-end food forum Opinionated About Dining and dubbed “king of the bloggers” by Jay Rayner, Steve Plotnicki ran Profile Records and bought the rights to Robot Wars before pursuing his lifelong interest in food.
This Inner City McDonald’s Is Decorated with Fake Graffiti and People Aren’t Happy
McDonald’s’ new graffiti-inspired decor scheme has been branded as “offensive” and “poorly thought through” after being introduced in one of its London restaurants.
Jay Rayner’s Quest for the Perfect Salt Beef Sandwich
This is the food of the Ashkenazi Jews—a dish engineered against Russian winters. I love a torn basil leaf as much as the next aspirational foodie but sometimes, only saturated animal fats will do.
Examining the Two Men Who Perfectly Represent London's Great Cultural Divide
Famed foodie Jay Rayner and rapper J Hus tell us all we need to know about the changing face of the UK capital.
MUNCHIES Presents: Challenge Hix
Mark Hix—an OG of the British gastronomy scene—offers MUNCHIES an invite to the legendary "Challenge Hix," which has never been witnessed before by anyone outside his inner circle of head chefs.
We Should Be Eating Seaweed by the Bucketload
So nutrient-dense and sustainable it's almost silly, it's high time we started looking to seaweed as a regular food source beyond spirulina pills and the stuff found in store-bought miso soups.