OFM awards 2014 best place to drink: Friends of Ham, Leeds
Meet the couple who travelled the world to bring the best of the craft beer revolution back home to YorkshireRead the full list of runners-upWhen Friends of Ham opened in July 2012, craft beer was...
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Pubs, cocktail bars, inns and taverns from around the country chosen by OFM readersNightjarMoodily lit speakeasy style bar with a cocktail list divided into pre-prohibition, prohibition and postwar.129...
View ArticleOFM awards 2014 best ethical restaurant: runners-up
Whether its for the fair traded food, charitable giving or community involvement, these are readers choices from across the countryGrain StoreVegetables are the star of the show at chef Bruno Loubets...
View ArticleOFM awards 2014 best cheap eats: runners-up
Great food for under £15 a head: OFM readers best value choices from around the UKFranco MancaSourdough pizza with delectably chewy crusts and simple, well sourced toppings and daily specials. Eight...
View ArticleOFM awards 2014 best independent retailer: Delifonseca, Liverpool
Candice Fonsecas modest dream of selling cheese from behind a counter has exploded into a city-wide food empireRead the full list of runners-upIf I was a real businessperson I wouldnt have done it its...
View ArticleOFM awards 2014 best ethical restaurant: Friska
From its menu to its partnership with a microfinance charity, this Bristol cafe chain has ethics at its coreRead the full list of regional runners-upFor the third year in four, our Ethical Award winner...
View ArticleDouglas Coupland: A hen party is one of the scariest things Ive ever seen
The author of Generation X on his short-lived career as a restaurant reviewer, his strangest ever meal and why he loves the writing on TripAdvisorBrasserie Max at the Covent Garden Hotel gives out onto...
View ArticleObserver Food Monthly Awards 2014: the winners - in pictures
All the winners from this years awards, from best food personality to best cookbook, photographed exclusively for Observer Food MonthlyContinue reading...
View ArticleOFM awards 2014 best newcomer: Gloucester Services
Farewell to soggy sandwiches this motorway stop alongside the M5 sells the finest locally sourced food and supports the communityThe winner of our Newcomer of the Year award came about, like so many of...
View ArticleNigel Slater: welcome to the OFM awards 2014 issue
From TV stars to small farmers, we introduce the very best of British food and drinkI have spent too many hours on the motorway this year. Sadly none of my journeys took me past Gloucester Services,...
View ArticleCan free school meals revive the Lib Dems?
The partys £1bn policy allows all pupils in all infant classes to get a daily hot meal. Nick Clegg took a lot of flak when it was announced but how is it working out? Jay Rayner joins him in the school...
View ArticleFrozen in Time: Rihanna, Cara Delevingne and Joan Smalls in Karl Lagerfelds...
The stars get their weekly shop done in a Warholian kind of wayFashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight, said Karl Lagerfeld in 2004. This did little to challenge our assumption that food...
View ArticleNigel Slaters autumn recipes
Its the season to get cosy with comfort food, so ease yourself into autumn with these five warming recipesContinue reading...
View ArticleSix new Lorraine Pascale recipes
From an elegant peach and burrata salad to sumptuous, slow-cooked Asian pulled pork: an exclusive extract from the TV cooks new book How to Be a Better CookContinue reading...
View ArticleLorraine Pascale: Model, baker, mechanic and fostering activist
The TV cook has packed a lot into her first 40 years. Here, she talks about childhood, forgiveness and how life is fine! Now try some recipes from How to Be a Better CookLorraine Pascale walks into a...
View ArticleSome dishes just arent made for sharing
Some filthy food secrets are simply unforgivable. Best that you keep them behind closed doorsRecently I became a national hate figure. Not since I admitted I thought negronis taste like bad dental...
View ArticleGary Kemp: We never say supper in our house. Thats the language of the...
The Spandau Ballet musician and actor on food memories of his London childhood and a meeting with Ronnie KrayMy earliest memory is of pouring a tin of Lyles Golden Syrup over my baby brother Martins...
View ArticleOFM awards 2014 best producer: Cabrito Goat Meat, Devon
When a Devon couple bought some goats on a whim at a farmers market, they didnt realise it would be the start of something bigJames Whetlor and Sushila Moles didnt set out to create an award-winning...
View ArticleOFM awards 2014 best Sunday lunch: the Colonel Fawcett
A group of friends turned a wreck with no ceiling into a much-loved north London local just make sure to have lots of gravyRead the full list of runners-upA few streets away from Camden Towns main...
View ArticleOFM awards 2014 best cheap eats: Silk Road
This Camberwell restaurant brings the flavours of north-west China from lamb skewers to handmade noodles to south London, at just £10 a headRead the full list of runners-upThe family behind the winner...
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