Table Talk

Track rate

Tom Chesshyre has a soft spot for railway hotels

American nightmare

Lisa Hilton reluctantly samples a Five Guys burger in Milan and regrets it

Bullfighting à la mode

Christopher North says French aficionados are more demanding than the Spanish

Bad taste of PC foodies

Cultural appropriation in cooking is wonderful, says Felipe Fernández-Armesto

Go on, go to seed

Let the plants do the work says Hephzibah Anderson

A crisp House white

Christopher Pincher on the wine of Westminster

Swap till you drop

Thomas Woodham-Smith enjoys a great trade tradition

Pond life with Mum

Patrick Galbraith says water can be a great healer

Survival of the fittest

Fiona Duncan looks at the winners and losers as the hospitality sector copes with Covid-19

Training for nothing

Nick Cohen laments the pandemic’s effect on competitions