Marco Pierre White in one of his publicity shots for Marco’s Kitchen Burnout. What was it The Art of War said about knife-sharpening? Photograph: ITV It’s a familiar conceit – a handful of barely-recognisable celebrities have to cook restaurant-quality meals in a professional kitchen while Marco Pierre White spectacularly misappropriates quotes from Sun Tzu’s The [...]

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A furious diner was refused a glass of tap water at a restaurant just days after a new law made it an offence for licensed restaurants not to provide water free of charge.

Sonya Adams asked for a glass of water while dining at Vermilion Cinnabar in Manchester, where she and five friends had just dined.

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Marchese Lodovico Antinori is at it again. After knocking our socks off with his so-called “Super Tuscans”, Ornellaia and Masseto – Italy’s most prized and expensive wines – he’s now repeating the feat with his new project, Tenuta di Biserno, this time in cahoots with his brother, Piero. As with everything in Italy, it’s a [...]

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