Jay Rayner

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I'm hearing this a lot. Any particular model?

Paging @sarahoconnorft.ft.com - there seem to be a few different models. Is there an absolute banker among them?

Does anyone have strong views on the best reasonably priced tank printer. I need a new one, and am a little bamboozled by all the reviews. Nothing seems to get a clear bill of health.

At 10.30am on BBC R4 it’s the last episode in this series of the Kitchen Cabinet. We’re in Durham and it really is a corker, partly down to our special guest panellist Si King.

Italian food for hedgies to talk over, not about — Jay Rayner reviews Campanelle in the City Have you ever dreamt of splitting a bistecca while gazing out on an office atrium?

For today’s @ftweekend.com I’m at Campanelle, an Italian in a vast new City development, serving the sort of food you talk over rather than about, and where they’re a little tight with the premium seafood.

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Great reporting here, of something I'd been looking at, after receiving a bunch of emails from aggrieved people. Clearly I didn't get on to it quickly enough. The Londoner very much have the story.

‘A cheery slap about the chops’ — Jay Rayner reviews Island, King’s Cross Tom Brown and Brad Carter’s new venture thoroughly reinvents surf ’n’ turf

For today’s @ftweekend.com I’m in King’s Cross at Island, a surf and turf collaboration, where meat and fish are smashed together and every flavour is wham and bam and bosh.

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Actor Tom Hollander: ‘I would love to be a Bond villain’ The show-stealing star on the ‘privileges of living in fiction’, why character acting is a misnomer — and how Tom Holland is keeping him relevant

This week's lunch with the FT is Tom Hollandander. Not Spiderman. Or the historian. The one of Rev and the Night Manager. That one. And it's a really good read. Includes references to noisily masticating bread.
www.ft.com/content/2a02...

If you're coming to the Aldeburgh Food And Drink Festival this weekend why not pop along to my Nights Out At Home show in the Britten Pears studio at Snape Maltings. 3pm Saturday.
www.brittenpearsarts.org/events/jay-r...

Can’t explain that; everyone else appears to be finding it paywalled

Thank Luke. I was a bit surprised. Will now delete the original query

Doesn’t this grande dame of a hotel deserve better? — Jay Rayner reviews The Nettlefold at Burgh Island Come for the dreamy art deco and Agatha Christie lore, not the food

For today’s @ftweekend.com I went to the Burgh Island Hotel, a great art deco landmark, lured in by the promise of a new chef. It was sad and disappointing in so many ways.

on.ft.com/4gu382Y Doesn’t this grande dame of a hotel deserve better? — Jay Rayner reviews The Nettlefold at Burgh Island

Ha. Yes, I know. And I apologised for it in the caption to this video on Instagram. Elements of the voice-over recorded separately but that’s not really an excuse. Will do better.

And so to the third (and final) instalment of my journey round classics for @ftweekend.com and the @financialtimes.com. This time it’s three classic pubs with great food, namely the Guinea Grill, the Blue Stoops and the Barley Mow. You want something cutting edge? You won’t find it here.

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There are two sorts of hotels. Those with plugs next to the bed. And all the other crap ones.

Well of course it is.

There is actually another stage to this; I can’t immediately locate an example, though I know they exist: the obituarist, who predeceased many of their subjects, and was considered worthy of an obituary, written by someone who predeceased them.

Robert Redford obituary One of Hollywood’s greats who starred in All the President’s Men, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and The Sting

All journalists should bend the knee to the work of the obituarist, the one discipline which enables the practitioner to get a byline from beyond the grave. Ronald Bergen predeceased his subject Robert Redford by 5 years, but left behind a truly masterful obit.

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So @dranniegray.bsky.social what do we think? Mirabelles?

For this week’s @ftweekend.com restaurant review I went to Apna Punjab in Southall, a modest looking restaurant beloved of Bollywood film sets in the UK, where they serve terrific kulchas and mixed grills.

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I appreciate this idea.

I mean, really!

Binks, EVERYONE DARLING.

Last week for @ftweekend.com and @financialtimes.com I took you on a tour of three classic bars. This week: three classic restaurants, namely Rules, Quo Vadis and Bentleys. You want edgy? You’ve come to the wrong place. And to access my FT reviews head to the LinkTree in bio.

Jazz Up the 80s with the Jay Rayner Sextet | Pizza Express Live Jazz Up the 80s with the Jay Rayner Sextet

While the September JR Sextet show with @pizzaexpressuk.bsky.social Dean Street is now sold out, our October, November and December shows are now on sale.
www.pizzaexpresslive.com/whats-on/jaz...

That very clever @jderrfuss.bsky.social, who created the map of my reviews in my Linktree (in bio) has now developed a page tracking new hospitality openings across Nottingham. @mhairim.bsky.social this one is for you.

When the boss is cross that THIS was the review you took her on.