Jay Rayner

My new cookbook Nights Out In The Kitchen once more has recipes inspired by my favourite restaurant dishes, but it’s also a culinary coming out, because there are a bunch that are mine; family favourites I’ve long been making. Order link below and more info in the alt text. linktr.ee/egmoran15

I am THRILLED that three people have blocked me since I posted this picture of a pie.

I baked a full crust pie. Chicken, leek, mushroom and thyme as you asked.

For today’s @ftweekend.com I am at Cloth Cornhill, a hot opening and with good reason. A skilled team has made the old look new, look old again. As to the food imagine a greedy Edwardian had hired a french chef and told them to cook British classics. Enjoy the alt text. www.ft.com/content/b1c2...

FWIW here’s what I described as looking like school dinners.

Meanwhile over on insta a chef I gave a mixed review to - checks notes - two years ago, has just had a rant about me. It’s good to see he’s dealing with it so well.

For this weeks @ftweekend.com I am at Miokuru, a terrific handroll bar in Soho where dinner is hand to hand. Gosh, it’s good. www.ft.com/content/e566...

So this week's media-studies lesson is that you have to be Piers Morgan to get Piers Morgan-sized viewing numbers. The issue with this, of course, is that it requires you to be Piers Morgan.

After a lengthy break the Kitchen Cabinet is back, baby. And we want you in the audience. We’ll be recording in #Inverness next weds Oct 21, then #folkestone on October 27 and #HebdenBridge on November 10. Tickets are free but you need to apply at the link below www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtour...

It's never the ones you expect is it.

A mid week piece from me, on the FT newspages. In an act of extraordinary generosity the owner of the building which houses Rules, London’s oldest restaurant, has donated it to the @nationaltrust.org.uk www.ft.com/content/1386...

God, I love London City Airport. Curb to departure lounge in 3 mins. Anyway, on my way to St Andrews for the first of three Nights Out In The Kitchen events with the always brilliant Toppings. A few tickets left. www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/st-an...

For today’s @ftweekend.com I am at the restaurant inside the high end Mayfair furniture shop RH London. And it’s chaos. Warm water. Can’t mix cocktails. Run out of hamburgers. Dull food for bored oligarchs who don’t eat. Have a few quotes and a pic of a £22 baked potato. www.ft.com/content/5993...

After one of our longer breaks (because we did one of our longest unbroken series at the start of the year) the kitchen cabinet is opening its doors for business again. We start in Inverness, then Folkestone and Hebden bridge. tickets at the link below. www.bbc.co.uk/showsandtour...

Half a dozen seats have come available for our previously sold out JR Sextet show at Pizza Express Holborn tomorrow night. www.pizzaexpresslive.com/whats-on/jaz...

Here’s a curious thing. When I post about antisemitism this happens. Probably a coincidence.

Probably better to know what the Greens really are, than not, eh.

In today’s @ft_weekend there’s a column by me about the writers of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, screwing up season 4 by attempting to dispense with the format across almost every episode. Perhaps you liked the season. You are entitled to that view. You are also wrong. www.ft.com/content/b1d6...

For today’s @ftweekend.com I am at Elkstone Studios in the Cotswolds, rolling my eyes performatively at the crass cult of ‘wellness’ while also enjoying the joys of Lardon, the southern European restaurant on site. www.ft.com/content/ca82...

I’ve hesitated over commenting on the Green Party’s anti-Zionism motion for fear of being called a genocidal monster. But the fear of antisemitism is a terrible reason for saying nothing. So Read this by @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social. It gets to the heart of it. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In the past 24 hours I have had four AI written scam email approaches from fake book clubs/ book influencers promising to make me a bestseller. God, it's annoying.

I am sure this advert, running in the middle of Time’s interview with Trump, is purely coincidental.

A huge thank you to the big crowd who came to this afternoon's slightly weirdly timed show in Belfast (as in 2pm on a Wednesday). You were fab. Just Coventry and Salford left.

I gave an interview to Guts mag about life, death and eating offal. They rewarded me with this lovely illustration. Have a link, and a few choice cuts. gutsmagazine.substack.com/p/chewing-th...

I am in a lovely hotel room In Belfast with no plugs next to the bed, and the most infuriating lighting system I have ever come across. Current status: in bed with the big light on, because you can’t turn on the table lamp by itself. Whoever designed this is a sociopath. Good night.

Edinburgh: see you tomorrow.

The @ftweekend.com has a new senior writer and it is @willoyd.bsky.social, who has opened his account with this brilliantly written piece of reporting, examining the UK’s resilience (or complete lack of it) in the face of multiple challenges. It’s very bloody good. www.ft.com/content/ba80...

For today’s @ftweekend.com I am at Kid, which is like a big opening for theatre critics: we all have to weigh in. My take: the food is as lovely as you would expect from Sertac Dirik, but don’t let the ineffably cool Soho setting convince you it’s more radical than it is. www.ft.com/content/7ac7...

This opinion represents great taste. www.fane.co.uk/jay-rayner

I did a 5Live discussion show with him at the height of the Brexit debate, and he kept his eyes closed throughout his answers to why he opposed a second referendum. Wouldn't look at us. Wasn't pleased when I pointed this out to the listeners, who couldn't see what he was doing.

Edinburgh people: I'm in your town this coming weekend, with a matinee performance on Sunday of my Nights Out In The Kitchen show. It's funny. I answer some very big questions, like "am I a bastard?" Then I answer your questions. Tickets at the link below. cultureedinburgh.com/events/jay-r...

On the BBC News Katya Adler has just described Germany, where the far right AFD keep winning elections, as entering 'uncharted political territory'. Hmmm. Where Germany is concerned I think that territory is pretty well charted.

Alongside my feature on the best brown dish at the weekend we published a recipe for a Tuscan Peposo, a beef and red wine stew with peppercorns. Which we didn’t read properly. Things were missing. Like what to do with the other half of the wine. Apologies. Here’s the correct version.

To complete this story, the first leg to Wolverhampton was fine. But the cross country to Reading was Dante’s 9th circle of hell: a standing room crush like the northern line at rush Hour. And so, to my dismay, I am now completing my journey by road which is what happens when transport fails.

People complaining about their train journeys are really annoying. So anyway, join me as what should be a couple of hours back from Chester becomes a five hour hoik through wales, into the West Midlands down to Reading and then to Paddington. Cos the London line is shut at MK. And yes I’m whining.

Brace yourselves. I have found the most annoying thing on the Internet. Behold: fridge styling. Frankly I think we might as well let our AI overlords finish us off.

Today’s FT Mag celebrates the deep autumnal joys of brown foods, which are the best foods. I was dispatched to find the best brown dish. Have a link good for 300 paywall-busting free reads. When they’re gone they’re gone. Or pick up a print copy of @ftweekend.com as.ft.com/r/99e584fc-8...

For today’s @ftweekend.com I am at Mirtala, a terrific neighbourhood restaurant celebrating both the food of Mexico, and a friendship between two women, one from Mumbai, the other from Nuevo Leon. www.ft.com/content/b402...

Tomorrow’s @ftweekend.com comes with an FT Mag special dedicated to the autumnal joys of brown food. My contribution is an intense search for the Best Brown Dish or BBD. A Farrow & Ball colour chart might have been involved. Do pick up a print copy if you can. It’s a beautiful thing.

I glow, I glow.

And one last recipe vid from my new book Nights Out In The Kitchen. This time salmon en croute. You’ll find a link to order the book (and for the ongoing one man tour; Chester next) at the link below linktr.ee/jayrayner1

For @ftweekend.com I’ve interviewed the marvellous Dianne Reeves and Branford Marsalis ahead of the release tomorrow of their new album marking the centenary of John Coltrane’s birth. www.ft.com/content/d23a...

Been invited onto a YouTube food game show, part of a channel which gets 25 million views a month, backed by major US Network. No fee but good for ‘exposure’. Ha ha ha. Also format sounds truly dreadful. Will review if/when it sees light of day, featuring every wet-lipped influencer going.

Note to self: if you are going to be needing dinner in Belfast on a Tuesday night, manage your expectations. Everything that looks fun and /or interesting doesn't seem to open until Wednesday. Suggestions welcome.

For various reasons which drive me nuts, sounds (and podcast platforms) only have one series of TKC available to listen to at a time, during its run and for a few weeks after. That period has ended. We are on a break right now so there aren't any. We return late in October.

Oh sure, it's great for reducing food waste NOW. But mark my words: he day will come when, on a coordinated cue, our AI restaurant overlords, will KILL US ALL WITH SCALDING PANS OF HOT POT BROTH. And so on.

An interview with me by Reuters. When I was a student newspaper editor I got the application form for the Reuters Graduate Trainee scheme. It asked me to list the three languages other than my native tongue, In which I was fluent. The application stopped there. www.reuters.com/lifestyle/cu...