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The best cookbooks for restaurant lovers
by Malou Herkes
published on 1 January 2024, last updated on 4 January 2024
Are you a fan of a Hawksmoor steak? Love Ottolenghi’s restaurants but not sure how to recreate those flavours at home? We’ve rounded up our favourite cookbooks from the UK’s best restaurants and Michelin-starred chefs for anyone wanting to recreate restaurant-style food at home. From show-stopper dishes to simple throw-it-together recipes that champion humble ingredients, there’s a cookbook for all occasions.
The original ground-breaking cookbook from Yotam Ottolenghi
Recipes for Ottolenghi’s celebrated desserts
Inventive yet simple recipes to make at home
Ottolenghi: The Cookbook
This is honest, healthy, bold cooking presented with flair, style and substance. Whether you’re a regular at Ottolenghi’s restaurants and want to discover his secrets or you’re an Ottolenghi fan seeking to recreate his signature flavour and ingredient combos, this cookbook is for you.
Recreate Hawksmoor’s finest dishes at home
Decadent meat and seafood inspiration
Indulgent comfort food
Hawksmoor at Home
From the guys behind the UK’s best steakhouse, Hawksmoor at Home is a practical cookbook that shows you how to buy and cook restaurant standard food at home. From the perfect beef steak to the best beef roast to beef-dripping chips, plus recipes on how to cook seafood and mix cocktails. This is a must for serious carnivores.
Recipes from the London restaurant scene favourite
Beautiful dishes using fresh and seasonal ingredients
Aussie-style brunch inspiration
Caravan
The Caravan cookbook has every element of the day covered, from brunch to lunch to dinner with truly inventive flavour combinations that will impress your loved ones. Try the Sweet Potato & Chorizo Croquettes.
Delicious recipes from the chef behind Trullo and Padella
Serious cooking with a laidback approach
A British take on Italian cuisine
Trullo
From the man behind London’s Trullo and Padella restaurants, this cookbook will show you how to rustle up rustic Italian-inspired dishes with a British twist.
120 recipes celebrating locally-sourced British food
Traditional recipes with a fresh, modern twist
Creative combinations of delicious ingredients
The Ethicurean Cookbook
“Recipes, food and spirituous liquors from our bounteous walled garden in the several seasons of the year” is how The Ethicurean describes its cookbook celebrating home-grown and foraged ingredients. Think, confit rabbit paired with lovage breadcrumbs, cured roe deer with wood sorrel, foraged nettle soup, pork and juniper pie and Eccles cakes with Dorset Blue Vinny.
Stunning recipes from the chef behind acclaimed restaurants Sabor and Barrafina
Learn to prepare delicious Spanish feasts
Inspiring recipes using ingredients typical of Spain
Sabor
From the acclaimed chef and owner of London’s Sabor and ex-executive chef at London’s Michelin-starred Barrafina Frith Street, Sabor is a celebration of Nieves’ Basque origins. Despite her cheffing background, this is a cookbook that celebrates the more humble cooking of her upbringing: recipes for sharing, from comforting family cooking to light bites.
Beautiful recipes from London’s Soho restaurant, Ducksoup
A cookbook celebrating the art of simple cooking
Pared back dishes with a focus on flavour
Ducksoup Cookbook
Simple cooking really is the foundation of Soho institution Ducksoup and of their beautiful cookbook, which is inspired by the authors’ travels around the Middle East, Italy and Scandinavia. With a focus on quality ingredients, recipes are all about simple techniques to elevate dishes into something extra special.
Comforting Italian cooking at its finest
Timeless recipes from the celebrated London restaurant
Classic desserts and delicious cakes
River Café 30
Marking iconic London restaurant, The River Cafe’s momentous 30th birthday, ,i>River Cafe 30 brings together three decades of exceptional Italian cooking. You’ll find The River Cafe’s best loved recipes with lots of stories and tips from Rose Rodgers throughout.
Mother India at Home
From the award-winning Mother India restaurant at Westminster Terrace in Glasgow, this cookbook will teach you how to recreate authentic Indian cooking at home. Tracing Monir’s culinary journey as owner of one of the world’s greatest Indian restaurants, you’ll find a photo essay and history of this legendary institution and signature recipes too.
Michelin standard home cooking
Ideas for easy home entertaining
All Michael Caines’ signature dishes
Michael Caines At Home
Michael Caines is the original Michelin-starred British chef behind Gidleigh Park in Devon and now Lympstone Manor in Exeter. Michael Caines at Home is his first book with 100 exciting, delicious recipes that you can recreate easily at home.
Over 120 innovative barbecue recipes
The most popular dishes from the well-loved restaurant
Flavour-packed vegetarian recipes
Berber & Q
From the man behind London’s trendy grill restaurant Berber & Q, this cookbook will show you how to cook everything from meat to vegetables over live fire. Including signature dishes, from Saffron Buttermilk-fried Chicken and Honeyed Pork Belly to Cauliflower Shawarma, as well as punchy pickles, fiery sauces, creamy dips and fresh salads. This is BBQ food like you’ve never had it before.
Moro: The Cookbook
A fantastic fusion of Spanish, North African and Eastern Mediterranean cooking, this acclaimed, award-winning cookbook comes from the brains behind much-loved London small plates restaurant, Moro.
The Gilbert Scott Book of British Food
Here the menu pays tribute to the historic charm of the Renaissance Hotel where The Gilbert Scott restaurant is located. Rediscovered and re-imagined traditional British classics, from Yorkshire fishcakes to Dorset Jugged Steak to Cock-a-leekie Pie.
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