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Jay Rayner

@jayrayner1.bsky.social

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Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. [email protected] https://linktr.ee/jayrayner1

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · Dec 5

A huge thank you to Delicious Mag and @markdiacono.bsky.social for declaring Nights Out At Home storytelling cookbook of the year. You’ll find links to buy via the LinkTree in my bio and here’s the link to Delicious Mag’s top 25 cookbooks of the year

www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/the-25-best-...

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 1h

The slot is called the FT Weekend essay, but yes it is a feature.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 1h

Apologies: legado (no R)

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 1h

And as ever in @ftweekend.com my restaurant review: I went to Legardo, the new one from Spanish chef Nieves Barragán Mohacho, ate the delicious three week old roast suckling pig and then disappeared down a philosophical rabbit hole about the morality of doing so.

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‘Sublime, transcendent . . . and morally complex?’ Jay Rayner reviews Legado, Shoreditch

Beautiful suckling pig served with a side of existential crisis

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 1h

For the past few months, for the @ftweekend.com essay, I’ve been digging deep into the phenomenon of premium restaurant brands going global: the risks, the benefits, the way almost all of them end up serving takes on the same ingredients.

on.ft.com/3KS1Enr How high-end restaurants went global

How high-end restaurants went global

As a new generation sets out in the footsteps of Nobu and Zuma, Jay Rayner examines the rise of ‘luxe’ food chains — and whether it has come at a cost

on.ft.com

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 2d

In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 2d

Season four of The Morning Show has really gone a bit Stenders. Enjoying it, but I keep hearing the drum break at the credits.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 3d

The last six US Surgeons General have written a joint letter declaring Robert Kennedy Jnr a danger to the health of the nation.

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 3d

Behold.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 3d

Yes. And?

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 3d

I have indeed seen this.

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 4d

This from @stephenkb.bsky.social is very much worth your time.
www.ft.com/content/14d4...

Israel seems more important — and less desirable — than ever for British Jews

Amid rising antisemitism at home, our lifeboat abroad seems less attractive

www.ft.com

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you one and all, and especially @sarahoconnorft.ft.com. My Brother Laser Mono is ordered and on its way.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 4d

We have news. @ftweekend.com is launching a set of business lunch awards. Nominate. Nominate like the wind. And then an illustrious panel of judges will choose the winners. Plus me.

Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 5d

Good morning, FT Weekend is launching a best business lunch award! You can join in! NOMINATE a restaurant and WIN lunch for two at Simpsons on the Strand. Or do it out of gratitude and support for the restaurant biz.. on.ft.com/4q1CqTY

Help FT Weekend crown the best business lunch restaurant in London

[FREE TO READ] Nominations are now open for our inaugural Business Lunch Awards in partnership with OpenTable

on.ft.com

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 4d

Yeah, but what about the printer? (Thank you)

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 4d

You have spoken. And I have ordered. I just need something that prints words in black on white paper. perfect.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 5d

thank you

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 5d

I'm hearing this a lot. Any particular model?

Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 5d

Paging @sarahoconnorft.ft.com - there seem to be a few different models. Is there an absolute banker among them?

Jack Kessler @jackkessler.bsky.social · 5d

Don't make @sarahoconnorft.ft.com tap the sign.

Sarah O'Connor @sarahoconnorft.ft.com · Mar 12

So here's a question. Why do people keep buying rubbish printers & then being enraged by them, when the perfect printer (reliable, reasonably priced, durable) exists? (The Brother laser mono) It's not like we have an Akerlof market for lemons here, right?

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 5d

Does anyone have strong views on the best reasonably priced tank printer. I need a new one, and am a little bamboozled by all the reviews. Nothing seems to get a clear bill of health.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 7d

At 10.30am on BBC R4 it’s the last episode in this series of the Kitchen Cabinet. We’re in Durham and it really is a corker, partly down to our special guest panellist Si King.

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 7d

For today’s @ftweekend.com I’m at Campanelle, an Italian in a vast new City development, serving the sort of food you talk over rather than about, and where they’re a little tight with the premium seafood.

on.ft.com/48aEsKV

Italian food for hedgies to talk over, not about — Jay Rayner reviews Campanelle in the City

Have you ever dreamt of splitting a bistecca while gazing out on an office atrium?

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 10d

Great reporting here, of something I'd been looking at, after receiving a bunch of emails from aggrieved people. Clearly I didn't get on to it quickly enough. The Londoner very much have the story.

The Londoner @londonermag.bsky.social · 12d

Victor Garvey is one of London's biggest chefs; beloved by critics like Giles Coren.

But ex-staff, friends and investors paint a different picture; of bailiffs, mid-restaurant fights and Warhammer 40k fans losing their savings to Garvey.

Our weekend exposé:

www.the-londoner.co.uk/the-rise-and...

He's one of London’s most famous chefs. So why do so many people say Victor Garvey owes them money?

Giles Coren called him his “favourite kind of chef”. But former staff and business partners paint a different picture of the Michelin star winner.

www.the-londoner.co.uk

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 14d

For today’s @ftweekend.com I’m in King’s Cross at Island, a surf and turf collaboration, where meat and fish are smashed together and every flavour is wham and bam and bosh.

on.ft.com/46EwA1D

‘A cheery slap about the chops’ — Jay Rayner reviews Island, King’s Cross

Tom Brown and Brad Carter’s new venture thoroughly reinvents surf ’n’ turf

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 14d

This week's lunch with the FT is Tom Hollandander. Not Spiderman. Or the historian. The one of Rev and the Night Manager. That one. And it's a really good read. Includes references to noisily masticating bread.
www.ft.com/content/2a02...

Actor Tom Hollander: ‘I would love to be a Bond villain’

The show-stealing star on the ‘privileges of living in fiction’, why character acting is a misnomer — and how Tom Holland is keeping him relevant

www.ft.com

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Jay Rayner @jayrayner1.bsky.social · 17d

If you're coming to the Aldeburgh Food And Drink Festival this weekend why not pop along to my Nights Out At Home show in the Britten Pears studio at Snape Maltings. 3pm Saturday.
www.brittenpearsarts.org/events/jay-r...

www.brittenpearsarts.org

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