[slider_pro id="49"] At my BurgerMonday pop-up dinners the guest chefs usually prepare up to 20 burgers at a time, no more. Giorgio Locatelli is more demanding. BurgerTuesdays at Locanda Locatelli require more hands and greater concentration: 55 burgers are first...
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SpagWednesday Week
SpagWednesday Week is my video mix of photos taken by Paul Winch-Furness at six SpagWednesday pop-ups organised in London by young&foodish. The featured guest chefs are Arcangelo Dandini of L'Arcangelo in Rome, Rowley Leigh of Le Café Anglais in London, Giorgio...
When Rome’s Pope of Pasta Popped Up in London, Minus His Secondo
[slider_pro id="1"] When I received Arcangelo Dandini's shopping list for the SpagWednesday alla Matriciana pop-up dinner last October I was relieved to see the great Roman chef's instructions were clear and reasonable; the ingredients, all easy gets. I...
Evening Standard on Days of Young&Foodish
The days of the young&foodish week were the subject of a feature written by Victoria Stewart for the TRENDS section of the London Evening Standard on March 26th. BurgerMonday and SpagWednesday are apparently as fashionable as Mad Men-era plaid jackets;...
Top 10 Artworks at Frieze Art Fair
To prove to you there's a lot more to young&foodish than burgers, spaghetti, pizza, sandwiches and coffee I decided to devote my newest top 10 to the Frieze Art Fair at London's Regent's Park. Whenever I go to art shows, which is pretty much all the time except...
Nonna Locatelli’s Lesson to Giorgio
The astute chef, I wrote a month ago, scrutinizes a new dish as a practiced traveller would his packed suitcase: He finds the least necessary item and removes it. Last week Giorgio Locatelli made or unmade, as it were, the same case for simplicity, only without the...
Giorgio Locatelli finds paternal bliss
What was the girlfriend of University of Leeds student Jack Locatelli thinking? During a recent visit to her boyfriend's London home she criticised his eating habits, to his father: "He [Jack]", she complained to Giorgio Locatelli, the chef at Locanda Locatelli, "can...
Will the real WORLD’S GREATEST RESTAURANT FESTIVAL please stand up?
For Taste of London to merit its self-bestowed title of WORLD’S GREATEST RESTAURANT FESTIVAL, two things need to happen: First, the annual food fest must prove itself superior to the nightly one in San Sebastian’s Parte Vieja. Second, the organizers, Taste Festivals...