Simon Carlo News Today

To Edgbaston, on a damp Tuesday afternoon, for lunch at Laghis, an old Italian restaurant with a new chef, that my friend, food writer Simon Carlo, likes very much indeed.

From seriously good Sichuan cuisine to the nations favourite Nandos, food critic TOM PARKER BOWLES rounds up the best bargain eats across the country.

Tallow in Kent triumphs in the Good Food Guide’s annual celebration of cockle-warming community favourites

Jay Rayner mentions a café less than an hour from Worcester in his food round-up for the Guardian

TOM PARKER BOWLES: Its just past 10pm on the softest of Welsh summer nights and the whole room shakes to a throbbing bass beat. Theres a disco light, cutting through the Stygian gloom...

Tom discovers a gem of a Chinese serving home-style Sichuan cooking… in Birmingham

A move to Birmingham from Beijing lets this fine British chef show off his robust talents