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Tom Parker Bowles & Olly Smith: Eating In By Tom Parker Bowles & Olly Smith Published: 00:03 GMT, 14 March 2021 | Updated: 00:03 GMT, 14 March 2021 This week Tom goes trawling for a treat with some of the UK’s finest fish for delivery ‘Pure piscine class’: the Smoked fish box from Wright Brothers … Read more

Tom Parker Bowles & Olly Smith: Eating in By Tom Parker Bowles & Olly Smith Published: 00:02 GMT, 7 March 2021 | Updated: 00:02 GMT, 7 March 2021 This week Tom tries two British bistro-style feasts with a difference   East meets Lancashire: The Parkers Arms Chinese New Year box Gary Usher, chef proprietor of the … Read more

Tom tastes his way across Asia without leaving home Over a month into lockdown 3, and the ingenuity of this country’s restaurants never ceases to impress. Beautifully packaged boxes, filled with the fruits of many a fine kitchen, fly across the land, delivering cardboard-clad succour and delight. Yes, they require a little forward planning. And … Read more

For fuss-free Mexican food, Tom tries his hand at DIY kits 1, santoremedio.co.uk Ah, Mexico. What I wouldn’t do to be back there now, scarfing tacos al pastor on some street corner. Or sitting, gazing out at the Pacific, and pelicans skimming the waves, a cold Michelada at my right hand. Well, I can but … Read more

Tom’s pick of home-delivered Indian and Sri Lankan dishes So here we are again, pubs shuttered, restaurants closed, our hospitality industry on the edge of collapse. The furlough scheme may ensure that employees are looked after, but those bills keep flooding in. And it’s not just the restaurateurs, publicans and hoteliers that suffer, but the … Read more

Tom tries an American-style diner with an inspired Mediterranean take The fricasse: a glorious Tunisian sandwich Like so many restaurants, both old and new, Mo Diner has had a pretty wretched year. It launched briefly before the first lockdown – then was shuttered until October when it flung open its doors once more, only to … Read more

For soulful Mexican food with a twist, Tom heads west to London’s Marylebone Langoustine wrapped in a fresh, warm tortilla is ‘Pure taco heaven’  At Kol, a new Mexican restaurant north of Oxford Street, everything seems very, well, Noma-esque. The open, central kitchen, where chefs toil with a quiet intensity. The bespoke uniforms, in tasteful … Read more

For a classic British staple, Tom heads to a backstreet pub in London’s Mayfair  The windmill’s steak and kidney pie ‘Drowned in a thick gravy’  Pie and a pint. For theavoidance of any doubt whatsoever, this is as substantial a lunch as you’ll find anywhere, the very definition of edible good cheer. And at The … Read more

For the authentic flavour of Northern Mexico, Tom voyages to an East London market stall Netil Market, midway between Bethnal Green and London Fields, is new East London to its core – the usual street-food stalls selling bao buns, ‘hand-rolled’ sourdough bagels and hot doughnut sundaes; plenty of ‘discerning boutiques presenting curated articles and crafted … Read more