Alejandro Calvo has been appointed head chef of Tast, the Catalan restaurant backed by Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola. Calvo interned under Tast’s executive chef Paco Perez at the two-Michelin-starred Enoteca,in Barcelona, and went on to work with him for seven years. Calvo helped Perez secure his most recent Michelin star at Terra in S’Agaró, […]

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This January, the 80-cover Ampéli restaurant, from founder Jenny Pagoni, will open its doors on Charlotte Street in Fitzrovia. Taking cues from the modern wine-focused restaurants of Athens, Ampéli will feature dishes inspired by both Greek and Eastern Mediterranean cultures, which will be accompanied by a list of indigenous wines from across the Greek mainland. […]

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Harden’s weekly update of where the critics are eating, recommending and avoiding, for the week ending 8 December 2019. We are entering the time of Christmas articles and ‘best of the year’ round-ups; Grace Dent’s article this week was about family Christmas meals, Tom Parker Bowles gave us the list of his favourite cookbooks of […]

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