When our reporters praise Bray’s Hind’s Head it is because the picturesque pub is “thankfully not over-Hestoned” but The Sunday Times’s Lisa Markwell has the opposite problem – she can’t find any evidence of Blumenthal’s pseudo-scientific cooking at all, nor the influence of his trusty lieutenant Ashley Palmer-Watts – and it leaves her disappointed… “I […]

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Never mind dining like a queen – this weekend dine like The Queen in honour of Her Majesty’s 90th birthday. Although Elizabeth II’s birthday was actually back in April, ceremonial celebrations are now in full swing. We’ve rounded-up all the UK restaurants where our longest reigning monarch has dined (or rumoured to have dined) in […]

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