Lydia Winter

Lydia Winter editor

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Lydia suffers from constant food FOMO, which means she has to eat everything she comes across (except coriander). When not thinking about her next meal, she can be found stalking other people's cats – or trotting the globe for, er, her next meal.

Lydia Winter's articles

Thomasina Miers' Wahaca restaurant group goes carbon-neutral

There's now even more reason to love Wahaca's market-style Mexican food – it's become the first restaurant group in the UK to be certified carbon-neutral

Q&A: Ollie Dabbous on social media, trends and keeping yourself challenged as a chef

Chef and co-owner of Dabbous and Barnyard, Ollie Dabbous likes to stay on his cheffing toes. He tells us about staying ahead of the curve

Flavour of the Week: Le Bab

Posh kebabs? Really, really good posh kebabs from former Le Gavroche chefs? And wine? You'll think twice about visiting your local doner van ever again

5 of the best department-store restaurants

Some of London's biggest, baddest shops have pretty good eats, too. Here are our favourites

Yeo Valley's staff canteen shortlisted for People's Favourite category at Food Made Good Awards

Thought your work canteen made a tip-top lunch? Since Yeo Valley's was opened to the public, it's garnered acclaim as a restaurant in its own right, culminating in a nomination at the Food Made Good Awards

Flavour of the Week: The Ninth

This week, we get stuck into pickled mussels, barbajuans and rosemary ice cream at Jun Tanaka's The Ninth, his first restaurant as chef-patron

Q&A: Le Bab's Stephen Tozer on why single-dish restaurants are the way forward

Le Bab is the latest in a slew of London restaurants tackling the kebab's bad rep. Co-founder Stephen Tozer tells us what makes the kebab great

Flavour of the Week: Frenchie

From bacon scones to bagnums of wine, there's a lot to love at Covent Garden's Frenchie, where Gregory Marchand is turning classic French cuisine on its head

Q&A: Albert Adrià on pop-ups, life at elBulli and waiting to open a restaurant

2,800 people snapped up tickets to 50 Days of Albert Adrià at Hotel Café Royal. We chat to the acclaimed chef about life at elBulli and why, sometimes, it's good to be patient

Q&A: Bubbledogs' Sandia Chang on bar dining, wine, and fine-dining dude-food

Bubbledog's Sandia Chang's new pop-up is anything but a dog's dinner. We talk to the super-sommelier about English sparkling wine's unique flavour and the quirks of the London food scene

5 places celebrating Chinese New Year in London

Chinese New Year is on 8 February. Better do the decent thing and celebrate with a feast, then...

Flavour of the Week: Oklava

Turkish-Cypriot cuisine with a delicate fusion touch: Selin Kiazim's Oklava arrives in Shoreditch, bringing mouthwateringly tasty food and wine along with it

Q&A: Lucky Chip's Ben Denner on burgers, Mark Wahlberg and £500 wines

Lucky Chip blazed a trail with its burger van long before street food was cool, but it's only just opened its first permanent site, Burgers & Wine. We chat to founder Ben Denner the day after the launch

Flavour of the Week: Palm Court

Way more than afternoon tea: Michel Roux Jnr. brings a bit of French allure to The Langham, London's Palm Court

Who's Cooking Dinner? An annual charity event with a Michelin-star-studded lineup

20 of the UK's best chefs come together for an exclusive, one-off dinner – with all money raised going to support research into the causes and treatment of leukaemia and blood cancer

Flavour of the Week: Perilla

Perilla's founders may be young, but they know their stuff: their East Dulwich pop-up is a triumph of great service, incredible food and seriously good wine

Flavour of the Week: Balls & Company

This week, the world went spherical at Soho's Balls & Company, a concept restaurant that's giving meatballs with sauce a trendy – and delicious – makeover

Q&A: Pont St's Sophie Michell on the future for women in food

Sophie Michell, London's youngest female executive chef, tells us about her new campaign with Merchant Gourmet, and what it's like cooking for Leonardo diCaprio

Q&A: Shake Shack's Mark Rosati on US food trends and why the best burger doesn't need toppings

Shake Shack's culinary director Mark Rosati divulges his secrets on the perfect burger and tells us why the London and US food scenes are so different

Flavour of the Week: Bao

Little morsels of delicious meat swaddled in curiously soft buns, fried chicken in an eye-wateringly spicy sauce and plenty of sake: Bao is definitely on to something