Shana Ting Lipton meets Tim and Nina Zagat, founders of the internationally renowned, iconic restaurant survey and guidebook series, which has humble beginnings in sixties Paris as the hobby of two ambitious solicitors dodging the chaos on the Left Bank.
Benares has a great reputation, for both its food and its owner and chef, Atul ‘Master of Spice’ Kochhar, so I didn’t expect to be disappointed. I didn’t expect, either, quite the culinary thrills that lay before me that evening…
Here are antipasti that you’ve never had before, as you’ve never had them before. This is genuine Italian fayre, as it would be served, unadulterated and without the need for preparation.
Eastern Standard is apparently the restaurant that the big-name chefs go to when they’re in Boston. The food is said to be innovative and consistently good, ever changing but always memorable. Jackie investigates…
I’ve walked past The Cadogan Arms on the King’s Road many times. I’ve briefly peered…
How far would you travel to reach Paradise? I travelled all the way from EC1…
Street food outlets are changing the face of the City lunchbreak. No longer is the office worker stuck with nothing but sad sandwiches from chiller cabinets. John and Jackie pop along to the Street Kitchen trailer to scoff and investigate.
“It is a truth (personally acknowledged) that a restaurant in possession of a view must have rubbish food, stratospheric prices, or both.” Victoria visits Kuzina in Athens, to be proven wrong…
Taco Haven, San Antonio, is not a place you want to stand out when you are British, Asian, and photographing the food. It is, however, a place to enjoy barbacoa, aka cow’s face. So Jackie sets down her camera, and tucks in.
When Victoria Haschka and The Hungry One arrive somewhere, they like to eat what is locally loved. So, when Reykjavik’s Fish Company promised to bring the best of all of Iceland to their plates, they prepared to tuck in.
As a school girl I was extraordinarily lucky. My passion for the arts was cultivated…
The Salt Lick in Driftwood, Texas, the infamous barbecue joint, serving up smoky, tender, flaking pieces of meat and tangy beans to red-faced, beer-swilling men, and Jackie Lee. Welcome to Woman vs. Food…