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Credit crunch dining 3: Exotic Vermilion charms Phil Taylor with its less than exotic buffet prices. Read more…

Credit crunch dining 2: Paul Ogden is surprised by the wonderful value lunch at glitzy Ithaca. Read more…

Credit crunch dining 1: Neil Sowerby finds a quality bargain in the Amazing Graze lunch menu. Read more…

RED is the colour of the moment. With individuals, companies, banks, heck, whole countries in hock up to their eyeballs, in the red does seem the place to be these days. It certainly is in Westhoughton. In a town where, frighteningly (though this was according to Red Bar and Restaurant's doorman)... Read more…

CROSSING the wild plains of the Gay Village, the wind at our backs, our bellies warm with one-too-many early evening whiskies, my drinking companion and I tethered our umbrellas and mounted the stairs at the corner of Sackville Street and Brazil Street, seeking shelter from the October storm. Read more…

WHAT credit crunch? The new Juniper delivers fabulous food at a fabulous price. Read more…

THIS is a new age of austerity, we are told. So how does one justify spending £135 for a Saturday evening dinner that was really quite straightforward in most respects? Read more…

THE last time I was in India I recall sitting at dawn in a deckchair outside our Raj era timber lodging, reading some appropriate rambling novel. Then the snake arrived with its breaklast Read more…

The design of Piccolinos in Hale is simple but stylish; the restaurant has a warm, cosy feel to it (black marble tables, dark wood panels and funky green leather upholstery) with touches of colour coming from the pictures on the wall and of course, the fine Italian food. <... Read more…