Lisa Hilton
With love from me to XU
Transported to a Taiwanese paradise in Soho
A taste of the real India
Going in search of Indian food in India — in vain
Venetian perfection
Bidding farewell to England with a meal to die for in Venice
Piccadilly peccadilloes
Celebrating good food and bad behaviour in Piccadilly
Hurrah for the new normal
We should applaud the huge improvement in British cuisine
Documenting a disaster magnet
Tibor Fischer’s new novel How To Rule The World is a bleakly brilliant picaresque
Exorcising a ghost
Banishing the ghosts of one’s undergraduate past, and enjoying an Islington feast
Less would have been more
Giorgio Locatelli eschews faux-rusticity and makes the case for a refined Italian cuisine, but his Locanda Locatelli fails to hit the spot
Les rosbifs on vacances
La Grand’Vigne in Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte is a triumph of a restaurant
Core values
We go to great restaurants in the hope of being transported
Tolerating the intolerant
“For those who thought that a global pandemic would sound the death knell for identity politics, think again”
How to prevent the next pandemic
‘I have been reporting as a science journalist for years that the world is at increasing risk of pandemics like this; that this was predicted; that we know what we need to do to prepare and we simply haven’t done it; and that more and worse pandemics are coming so we need to do that, now’
D’où parles-tu? The post-truth world
Power, illusion and the open society: how postmodernism undermines our foundational concepts