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Published 6 March 2026
Roberta Hall McCarron’s Perfect Pie Recipes
The Edinburgh chef reopens Eleanore later this month as a relaxed, neighbourhood bistro. To celebrate that – and British Pie Week too, of course – here are four gorgeous recipes from Hall McCarron’s book The Changing Tides.
Samyukta Nair: “We’ve lost a large chunk of our audience”
Samyukta Nair, with one Italian restaurant, two Indian restaurants, a Chinese restaurant and, soon, a Thai restaurant in her portfolio must be one of the most adaptive and versatile restaurateurs out there. She spoke to CODE about the challenge of doing business in Mayfair today.
How women are rewriting the rules of the French culinary scene
Women outnumbered men at the prestigious culinary school attended by chef Celine Pham, so why are only two of her cohort are still in the industry? Revealing interviews with Pham, and her French industry colleagues Mina Kandé and Tatiana and Katia Levha. Hybrid models,
Think you could be a restaurant critic? – Here’s the reality
It’s the dream job, right? So how come the San Francisco Chronicle’s critic Soleil Ho quit after four years in the post? Blame hate mail and the rise of social media. “Even the finest, most objectively perfect dishes started to seem uncanny and even disgusting,” she writes.
