Marina O'Loughlin
24 Easy Hangover Cures from All Our Favourite Chefs
Salt beef sandwiches? Spicy chicken wings? A really good roast? We’ve got it all.
This Chef Is Trolling TripAdvisor with Crazy Reviews of His Own Restaurant
"I wanted to show how bullshit it is," says Gary Usher, the Chester chef whose fake write-up has been praised by food critics including Jay Rayner for exposing TripAdvisor's questionable review screening process.
Here's Everything You Missed in the MUNCHIES Guide to British Food
Every day this week, we’ve been sipping, crunching, oyster-shucking, and drunk-ordering our way through the eclectic world of British food.
Why Scottish Restaurants Make Marina O'Loughlin Cringe
My home country’s reputation as being culinarily challenged has not been achieved without putting in the work. Scottish restaurants have a way to go until they’re no longer the punchline.
Welcome to the MUNCHIES Guide to British Food
Every day this week, MUNCHIES will be exploring the stories that make Britain’s cuisine. Pull up a chair, BYOB, and prepare to forget everything you know about British food.
This Man Wants People to Stop Serving Food on Wooden Boards
Steak presented on wooden boards, bread arranged in hats and chips in plant pots. Will our obsession with food served on things that aren’t plates ever end? The man behind the We Want Plates Twitter account certainly hopes so.
We Should Be Eating Seaweed by the Bucketload
So nutrient-dense and sustainable it's almost silly, it's high time we started looking to seaweed as a regular food source beyond spirulina pills and the stuff found in store-bought miso soups.
Being An Anonymous Restaurant Critic Is Like Being in the CIA
The Guardian's Marina O'Loughlin is one of the last of a dying breed: anonymous restaurant critics. We spoke to her about the challenges of protecting your identity when you've had a few, avoiding industry events, and, um, sticking herbs up her...