Spice up Pancake Day with these tips from top chefs
A pancake from Riding House Cafe, available for pick-up and delivery
A highlight of the home-cooking calendar, Pancake Day – or Shrove Tuesday to give it its proper religious title – feels more important than ever this year, with palates across the country calling out for something new. We asked some of the country’s top chefs how to make something flipping brilliant.
Michael Caines, executive chef at Lympstone Manor
Pancakes on a Sunday morning breakfast is a weekly ritual here at home. My easy pancake recipe also includes oats, which are full of vitamins, antioxidants and fibre. We usually add half a punnet of blueberries but if these aren’t to your taste, banana is a great substitute.
Le Comptoir Robuchon is the perfect tonic to 2020 life
The dining room at Le Comptoir Robuchon
Time has become airy and fugacious, like a fine mousse. Days drag on for weeks, but months pass in no time at all. Le Comptoir Robuchon opened a year ago, and yet it still feels like a new opening.
It had a couple of months to show off its homage to the legacy of the greatest chef who ever lived before it was tossed into the spin-cycle of coronavirus. What a shame, because it’s a brilliant little restaurant, fun and vibrant, just the tonic for this crappiest of years.