London’s new BBQ restaurants fired up by fine wine
Fiona Beckett finds top wine lists in unlikely places...
Fiona Beckett writes Decanter’s regular features on food and wine matching and runs the website matchingfoodandwine.com, which also includes pairings with beer, cocktails and other drinks. An award-winning journalist, Beckett has written regularly for many of the UK’s leading newspapers, including The Times, The Guardian and the Daily Mail. In 2002, she was nominated for The Food Journalist of The Year Award by the UK Guild of Food Writers. Beckett has written 15 books about food and wine, including How to Match Food and Wine, Cooking with Wine and Wine by Style.
Fiona Beckett finds top wine lists in unlikely places...
Clipstone in London is the latest restaurant opened by Nick Lander, son of wine writer Jancis Robinson MW. See Fiona Beckett's review...
Fiona Beckett reviews Master Sommelier Xavier Rousset's London wine bar, Blandford Comptoir. Serving an 'impeccable' wine selection with rich Italian dishes...
See Fiona Beckett's review of the remote and beautiful Faviken Magasinet restaurant, a two Michelin-starred restaurant in Sweden...
Enjoy top Burgundy wines here, says Fiona Beckett...
Read award-winning food and wine writer Fiona Beckett's review of the notorious Sexy Fish restaurant...
Chef Raymond Blanc is in pursuit of the perfect wines to match his food, so what’s on his revamped wine list and why has he slashed the selection by half? Fiona Beckett meets him to find out
Fiona Beckett visits the Cape Winelands' winners of the Best of Wine Tourism awards and revels in the region's heavenly offerings of food, art, architecture and nature...
This year's winner of the London Wine Merchant of the Year went to Hedonism, with the runner-up being New Street Wine Shop.
Christmas comes once a year, and so do Brussels sprouts. Love them or hate them, what do you really know about them? FIONA BECKETT serves up 12 facts to impress the family over your festive lunch
Everyone talks about Paris in the spring but the winter can be just as romantic. With a crisp nip in the air and the Champs Elysées lit up like the road to a fairytale castle it’s an enchanting place to be - and a brilliant hunting ground for the kind of French wines that seldom leave the country.
When Copenhagen’s Noma was voted best restaurant in the world at the World’s 50 Best Restaurant Awards in April, it marked the end of an era dominated by the man whose restaurant had held the top slot for the past four years: Ferran Adrià.
In any city except Copenhagen you’d have heard of Herman, but it suffers the misfortune of being eclipsed by the San Pellegrino World’s Best Restaurant - Noma.
René Redzepi, head chef of the ‘world’s best restaurant’, Noma, says he’s afraid of running out of steam and could leave to do other things
There are a number of reasons why you might not like Viajante, currently London's hippest - and most controversial - restaurant.
Noma has been named best restaurant in the world.
Gerard Basset has won the World’s Best Sommelier Competition in Santiago, Chile.
The food and wine matching category at a recent Cathay Pacific competition in Hong Kong has thrown up some unconventional pairings for Chinese food.
Les Sources de Caudalie, the restaurant on the estate of Chateau Smith-Haut-Lafitte in Pessac-Leognan, has won a Michelin star.
fiona beckett visits Tuscany to see how making olive oil compares to making wine – and to find out why the top end oils are so expensive…
Gordon Ramsay at Claridges has lost its Michelin star.