OFM Awards 2017: Best Ethical Food Project – the runners-up
Cafes, caterers and retailers with a social purpose: readers’ choices from across the UKFarmdrop“From farmer to your door within 19 hours” is the promise of this innovative online service which...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2017: Best Newcomer – Temper, Soho
A fire pit is the heart of this basement restaurant where Neil Rankin uses every scrap of the animals butchered on siteEven at 10 in the morning, before the barbecue pit at the centre of the Soho...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2017: Best Restaurant – the runners-up
From Texas barbecue in Barry to foraged food in Covent Garden, the best restaurants around the UK as voted by OFM readersFoley’s, FitzroviaChef Mitz Vora previously worked at the Palomar but his...
View Article2017's best place to drink in the UK – the Crown, Hastings
With customers arriving for brunch and leaving at last orders, plus haircuts in the snug and Monopoly at the bar, this pub has been voted by OFM readers as the perfect local’s localIt’s a quiet Tuesday...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2017: Editor’s Award – AA Gill
In recognition of a unique writing talent, OFM honours the late restaurant reviewer with this special awardNo opening paragraph of a restaurant review has ever delivered as much shock and sudden...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2017: Best Place to Drink – the runners-up
Pubs, wine bars, speakeasys and cocktail specialists: OFM readers pick their favourites from across the UKThirsty, CambridgeA wine shop where you can drink in as well as take out (or buy online); they...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2017: Outstanding Achievement – the Trussell Trust
Without the charity’s nationwide network of food banks, hundreds of thousands would go hungryAt the risk of sounding ungrateful, the Trussell Trust, Britain’s largest food bank network, isn’t entirely...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2017: Young Chef of the Year – Tom Adams
He was only 22 when he co-founded Pitt Cue. Then came serious illness and the idea for a Cornish hideaway … with a lot of pigs“I’m not sure I merit one of these,” says Tom Adams of his OFM Young Chef...
View Article2017's best restaurant – Pidgin, east London
Their menu changes weekly and no dish is repeated – the winner, as voted by OFM readers, is a small restaurant that’s big on creativityWhen the public ballot opened for this year’s Best Restaurant,...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2017: Best Sunday Lunch – the runners-up
OFM readers vote for their favourite roasts – from well-hung beef in Wales to whole suckling pig in NottinghamBlacklock, SohoThis chophouse scooped this award last year for its superlative roasts....
View ArticleOFM Awards: Best Independent Retailer – Rafi’s Spicebox
How the sons of Rafi Fernandez transformed her much-loved one-woman spice shop into a national brand – and voted Best Independent Retailer by OFM readersWhen Rafi Fernandez opened her first spice shop...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2017: Best New Cookbook – Fresh India by Meera Sodha
Meera Sodha’s dazzling take on the food of her heritage is voted Best New Cookbook by OFM readers. Plus three of her classic Indian recipes, via ScunthorpeMeera Sodha has made turmeric lattes and a...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2017: Best Cheap Eats – the runners-up
Cafes, pizzerias, street food: readers’s choices of the best places across the UK for a meal under £15Padella, SouthwarkLong queues are worth the wait at this Borough Market pasta specialist (winner of...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2017: Local Food Hero – The Pop Up Soup Kitchen
The remarkable story of Trevor Blaney and his DIY mission to feed the homeless on the Isle of Wight gets the OFM award for Local Food HeroTrevor Blaney sees a different Isle of Wight to the one enjoyed...
View ArticleOFM Awards 2017: Lifetime Achievement – Joyce Molyneux
In the 1950s, she was the only woman working in her restaurant kitchen. In the 70s, she won a Michelin star at the Carved Angel. The OFM judges celebrate a food pioneerJoyce Molyneux, the winner of...
View Article2017's best UK Sunday lunch – A Rule of Tum's Bookshop, Hereford
The secret to the success of this year’s OFM award winner, as voted for by readers? The finest local produce and gravy that takes a week to makeOver the past three years, A Rule of Tum has spearheaded...
View ArticleWelcome to the OFM Awards 2017
TV stars and local heroes, top chefs and talented newcomers: Nigel Slater introduces our winnersWelcome to the 2017 OFM Awards issue. The awards, now in their 14th year, would be nothing without you,...
View ArticleBrandon Flowers: ‘We Mormons should fast for 24 hours each month. I’m...
The Killers singer on growing up in Las Vegas – and the thorny issue of drinking colaDad was a produce man. He manned Smiths’ Food And Drug’s produce section, and so did his dad. If you needed someone...
View ArticleNigel Slater’s golden autumnal recipes
Celebrate the cooler evenings with warming cheddar and cider soup, roast pumpkin with date dressing and poached pears with fudge sauceThere is, I suggest, no better time to be in the kitchen than now....
View ArticleWhat’s the best thing about dining on your own? The people-watching
You can spend a lot of time inventing back stories for the tables around you. But what do they think when they glance back at the big man with too much hair?A Sunday lunchtime in the eternal spring...
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