“Modern” food trends have a lot to answer for. Not content with serving us dishes dressed with utterly unnecessary froths, foams and micro-herbs, top-end restaurants have developed a fondness for an ...

This story is part of the May 24 edition of Good Weekend. See all stories. Plates, I’ve seen a few. Smooth porcelain, noisy stoneware, glossy melamine, sustainable bamboo. From silver salvers on ...

The past few years have seen an explosive rise in the popularity of food being plated in ever stranger and more unusual ways. What started with the world’s top modernist restaurants serving food from ...