Celebrating good food and bad behaviour in Piccadilly

We should applaud the huge improvement in British cuisine

Banishing the ghosts of one's undergraduate past, and enjoying an Islington feast

Giorgio Locatelli eschews faux-rusticity and makes the case for a refined Italian cuisine, but his Locanda Locatelli fails to hit the spot

La Grand'Vigne in Chateau Smith Haut Lafitte is a triumph of a restaurant

We go to great restaurants in the hope of being transported

Fashionable food spots too cool to take bookings aren't worth the queues

Greek food is too often judged by the lowest common denominator, but the restaurant Mavrikos, in Lindos, is an epiphanic experience

Go to Margot if you want avvocato-chic, but the real taste of Italy can still be found in Puglia

A baroque beanfeast in an Oxfordshire manor house