Chef Robin Read has opened his debut restaurant as owner in his home town of Tunbridge Wells, more 30 years after a work experience placement with the Roux Brothers initiated his career. The Counter occupies a three-storey Georgian building, and follows a successful pop-up hosted by Daily Bread in the nearby village of Rusthall, which […]
Chef Rob Taylor and his wife Donna open their new restaurant Tallow, at Southborough on the edge of Tunbridge Wells in Kent next Friday, 5 November, having left the well-regarded The Compasses further east at Crundale after eight years last month. Set in an old building on the edge of Southborough’s village green, Tallow is […]
French haute cuisine, the wellspring from which culinary magic seems to flow across the world, has been sidelined of late in favour of rusticity, simplicity and (let’s face it) dirty great burgers. But can the classics ever truly go out of style? Surely we all just need a gentle reminder of France’s culinary prowess? Well, […]
