How fragrant Malvani lamb found the spice route from Bombay to Leeds
Dishoom has opened in Leeds to great acclaim. Neil Sowerby tracks down the lamb dish it has chosen especially for the new restaurant
Entries by Neil Sowerby
You say macaroni, I say Squacquerone. Ciao to one of Italy’s best kept secrets
One of the delights of our recent trip to Bologna was emerging from our apartment one Sunday morning in search of coffee to find a buzzing organic market on our doorstep. Just 12 hours earlier the Piazza Aldrovandi had been swarming with carousing students; now it was celebrating the equally vibrant food culture of the Emilia […]
Red-hot Impala lives up to the hype with a dream duck and molokhia’s ancient magic
En route to Impala through London’s Chinatown you run the gauntlet of lacquered roast ducks garnishing restaurant windows. From the humblest establishments to the Four Seasons, which trumpets its version as the world’s best. Switch from Wardour Street to Dean Street and you enter a different dining realm. It’s hard to resist dropping in on Jeremy […]
Danielle and Sofie to reopen OSMA and introduce Boutikk in Manchester’s Northern Quarter
OSMA restaurant has been much missed. Now it is returning – to the Northern Quarter
A decade of daiquiris downed! Happy big birthday, Manchester Rum Festival
Manchester Rum Festival is celebrating 10 years of merriment
How Vilnius paints the town pink, while I try to scrub beetroot out of my chinos
Neil Sowerby celebrates a Lithuanian Pink Soup Festival by making his own
Bella Bologna is pasta and mortadella centrale… yet a whole lot more
Bologna La Grassa is all I expected but other aspects of this historic Italian city are equally satisfying
No piece of cake! Expect fierce contest for Le Cordon Bleu’s Pâtisserie Scholarship
Le Cordon Bleu’s £75,000 Pâtisserie Competition is great for aspiring chefs
Join the morel crusade as Mike Shaw gives the Freemasons new belief
The Freemasons is a country gastropub that is in resurgent form
It’s a Dhokla shock as Bundobust casts off its menu shackles
The Indian street food meets craft beer pioneer has revamped its food offering triumphantly