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Temper Restaurant is drawing flame-hungry crowds for its fire cooking
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Monday April 27 2026, 4.10am BST, The Times
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All recommendations within this article are informed by expert editorial opinion. If you click on a link in this story, we will earn affiliate revenue The word barbecue requires some rehabilitation. It conjures up images of burnt yet raw sausages cooked in the English rain, of low-quality fatty meat disguised by sticky sauce and requiring defibrillators on standby. Nothing could be further from the truth these days. Fire has gone ultra-luxe: Michelin awarded the first stars to four barbecue restaurants in Texas a year ago. One of those, InterStellar BBQ, popped up in London for a month last September at the Ned. UK-wide, fire-cooking restaurants couldn’t be any hotter, with spots like the South African braai-haven Vivat Bacchus and Temper in the capital drawing flame-hungry crowds. At the Wellhouse in Winchester’s Lainston House, every single dish is cooked or smoked by wood fire.
Published: April 27, 2026 3:10 am
Source: The Times — Read original