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Time Out
22-05-2025
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- Time Out
This foodie feast one hour from London is the perfect summer day trip
Don't believe the haters: summer in London is mega. But everyone needs a break from the Big Smoke sometimes – and here's one you can book right away. Out in the Chiltern Hills, just beyond the M25, there's a place called Oxmoor Farm. Since 2022, they've been hosting an annual series of 'Wild Feasts', with top British chefs rocking up on the farm to cook up lunches and dinners using super-fresh local produce. Their creations are served at long tables, supperclub-style, in the blissfully relaxed surroundings of the Buckinghamshire countryside. Each chef serves up both a Saturday dinner and a Sunday lunch across one weekend. Previously held in tents, the feasts have now moved into a spacious, airy barn. As well as the long tables, there's a fireplace and sofas for post-feast lounging, and a firepit and seating outdoors for alfresco aperitifs if the weather's good. Kids aren't invited, but dogs are very welcome. I headed down to Oxmoor Farm in early May, with chef Ivan Tisdall-Downes (formerly of Native) taking over the open kitchen to serve up a menu of seasonal bangers: wild garlic flatbreads, wood-roasted beef sirloin from cows reared locally, charred asparagus and leeks and a rhubarb millefeuille. The chat along the table was very pleasant, with a crowd of mostly clued-in locals, a couple of whom lived less than a mile away. Locally-brewed beers and natural wines from a nearby supplier washed things down nicely. This year's feasts are set to continue right through to December. Over the next few months, the chef line-up includes three big London talents. This weekend, it's Abby Lee – chef-patron of Mambow, one of Time Out's favourite London restaurants – plus Ollie Dabbous (formerly of the Michelin-starred Hide), and Masaki Sugisaki of Dinings SW3. More culinary talents are due to be announced in June. Getting to Oxmoor Farm is easy from London: hop on a train from Marylebone station to High Wycombe, then take a taxi from the station. If you pre-book your cab, the whole trip should take less than an hour. Want to make a day of it? There are some lovely walks direct from the farm, and the nearby chocolate-box village of Great Missenden was once the home of Roald Dahl – it now hosts a museum and 'story centre' dedicated to the author. And if you can't make it to the Wild Feasts dates? The barn that hosts them doubles as a restaurant and café, serving all comers from Thursdays to Sundays. Besides food and booze, the farm also hosts workshops and events, spanning everything from foraging and fermentation to pottery and flower-pressing. There's even an outdoor, wood-fired sauna, complete with countryside views and outdoor plunge baths. Start planning your escape from the city for a day of gourmet country living.
New York Times
19-02-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
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An Insider's Guide to the East London Borough of Hackney The East London borough of Hackney has always been in flux: A diverse area characterized by waves of immigration, it has been home to everyone from Romans to Huguenots, West Indians to Turks. These days, it's known for its creative and tech scenes — the first European edition of the Texas-born South by Southwest festival will take place in Shoreditch, home to London's Silicon Roundabout, in June. East of Shoreditch, toward Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, you'll find clusters of Georgian and Victorian houses alongside verdant parks and some of the city's most interesting boutiques, bakeries and restaurants. At Sesta, which opened on Wilton Way in September close to Hackney Central station, the chef Drew Snaith, a co-founder of the restaurant, updates the traditional Scotch egg with 'nduja Scotch olives and substitutes stone bass for meat in a dish inspired by the Pakistani stew nihari. A 20-minute walk north, at Mambow, its owner, the 30-year-old chef Abby Lee, offers punchy modern Malaysian food paired with gin sours and natural wines. And just above Regent's Canal, the family-run Miga makes refined Korean food such as beef tartare with Asian pear or pan-fried pork belly with king oyster mushrooms. In Stoke Newington, in the northern part of Hackney, you'll find quilted coats and balloon-sleeved raincoats designed on the premises at Sonia Taouhid, and cultish European labels including Folk, Toast and Sideline at the men's and women's branches of Array. Then there's L.F. Markey, a few bus stops south in Dalston, which sells jumpsuits, denim overalls and dresses in joyful primary colors. But perhaps the biggest changes to Hackney are taking place on its eastern end in the Olympic Park, where in May, the Victoria and Albert Museum is scheduled to debut its V&A East Storehouse. The 172,000-square-foot space will display thousands of objects, including a 15th-century gilded wooden ceiling from the destroyed Altamira Palace in Toledo, Spain, as well as David Bowie's archive. And near the storehouse, the dance organization Sadler's Wells has a new zigzag-roofed theater showing contemporary works from both local and international companies; in April, the choreographer Mette Ingvartsen's Skatepark will set the stage with quarter-pipes and ramps, and skateboarders will join the dancers. — Kate Maxwell A Serpentine Band With Jungle-Green Stones For the Rome-based jeweler Bulgari, the snake is definitional. Since 1948, the 140-year-old house has invoked the serpent's sinuous contours, most often in watches, which over the decades have curled around the wrist both in the abstract tubogas — a flexible band created without soldering — and in realistic interpretations with hinged scales, gemstone eyes and dials hidden in the hissing reptile's mouth. But for collectors who prefer their Bulgari asp with no purpose other than to adorn, this rose-gold bracelet, embellished with jelly bean green chrysoprase elements, a 3.23-carat cushion-cut Zambian emerald, a pair of buff-top rubies and alternating bands of pavé diamonds, is its own dazzling reward. Bulgari Serpenti Amazonian Enigma bracelet, price on request, (800) 285-4274. — Nancy Hass Photo assistant: Karl Leitz Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
