11. Restaurant Review: The Jolly Fryer

The Jolly Fryer is a truly excellent fish and chip shop that you should all visit.

12. Restaurant review: The Wellington Arms

13. Restaurant review: The Bladebone Inn

The Bladebone Inn finds middle ground between the expensive bluster used to snare naive foodies and the ready-made, heat-a-meals of chain pubs.

14. A Chef's’S take on Aubergine

DO you ever read a review of a posh restaurant and wonder what makes a meal there cost as much as it does?

15. Orwells, Shiplake Row

I checked the menu. Asparagus, poached egg and hollandaise (£7), parsnip soup (£3.50), grey mullet, rosti and crushed peas (£13.50), rump steak, mushrooms and onion rings (£16.50), chocolate pots and brioche (£5.50) – approachable modern classics all at seriously reasonable prices.

16. food monthly: The future of food at home...

Foams, snows, emulsions, “earth”-coated potatoes.

17. The Crown Country Pub, Burchetts Green

Giles Coren, food critic of The Times, recently stated that it’s impossible for restaurants to give critics preferential treatment.

18. The Royal Oak Gastropub, Maidenhead

Ten years ago, “Michelin” meant tyres or obese people. As far as Mr Average knew their culinary knowledge extended only as far as helping get your car to the chippie. How times have changed.

19. Stevie B - Mobile Greengrocer

We have a ghost country – there’s nobody left. When everyone gets back, there’s no money and, with new school uniforms, there is zilch left.

20. Are you up for the big chip challenge?

Chips – everybody loves them, but of late chefs have been trying to elevate them above the status of the humble pomme frite.