Bill Knott

Spice fans can finally savour Thai cuisine at its eye-watering, tongue-burning best at Soho’s Janetira and Peckham’s The Begging Bowl

From handmade orecchiette to octopus with fava-bean purée, the spur of Italy’s gourmet fare is a knockout

From scrambled with eggs to enthroned on ice, London’s attitude to sea urchins is anything but spiky

The top-notch cooking and conviviality at these Delhi and London hotspots spice up the Indian-restaurant experience

More than impeccable food and a Michelin-starred chef, it is the wine that shines at these two vinous venues

A legendary inn and a surprising Spanish deli take the country’s crown for gastronomic gusto

Hearty local fare in this corner of rural France can be every bit as fragrant and distinguished as its wines

Stalwarts from the 1980s, these family-friendly Polish and Greek venues are still packing them in for hearty fare

Three Michelin stars between two Tenerife restaurants have put the island on the new gastronomic map at last

Repeatedly voted the world’s best restaurant, elBulli closed its doors forever in 2011. From its ashes is rising a gastronomic laboratory, and a new exhibition chronicling a year in its life. Founder Ferran Adrià talks to Bill Knott ahead of four exclusive elBulli-inspired dinners for How To Spend It readers

The French metropolis is a happy hunting ground for food on the wild and hearty side

Lipsmacking wines produced either side of the Pyrénées lift exceptional cuisine to soaring new heights

The humble pub’s ascent up the food chain gathers pace thanks to two of Britain’s brightest culinary talents

Celebrity chefs are very much at work – and play – at a new Vietnamese restaurant and an Irish food festival

Superior seafood comes as standard on St Barths, but the truffle-slathered pizza is also worth writing home about

Post-Christmas turkey fatigue finds aromatic relief in the tantalising Indian cuisine of three London hotspots

Once a gastronomic wasteland, Bishopsgate now boasts three of London’s smartest restaurants

Two New Forest hotspots are shaking up the country-house-hotel format with culinary aplomb