Jay Rayner
@jayrayner1.bsky.social
Eats and writes for The Financial Times. Piano for the JR Sextet; chairs Kitchen Cabinet for R4. Doesn’t accept comps. jay.rayner@ft.com
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Delighted to say tickets for my autumn 2026 Nights Out In The Kitchen tour, celebrating publication of my new cookbook in the autumn of 2026, are now on sale. Join me for a night of serious food chat, brilliant dinner ideas and some ludicrous ones too.
www.fane.co.uk/jay-rayner
www.fane.co.uk/jay-rayner
November 14, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Delighted to say tickets for my autumn 2026 Nights Out In The Kitchen tour, celebrating publication of my new cookbook in the autumn of 2026, are now on sale. Join me for a night of serious food chat, brilliant dinner ideas and some ludicrous ones too.
www.fane.co.uk/jay-rayner
www.fane.co.uk/jay-rayner
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT TIME. I’m delighted to say a follow up to Nights Out At Home is coming. I’m delighted to say Nights Out In The Kitchen is published next September and to celebrate I’m going back out on tour with a brand new show. On priority sale tomorrow and general sale Friday.
November 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT TIME. I’m delighted to say a follow up to Nights Out At Home is coming. I’m delighted to say Nights Out In The Kitchen is published next September and to celebrate I’m going back out on tour with a brand new show. On priority sale tomorrow and general sale Friday.
Sunday Nov 16 the JR Sextet are playing @pizzaexpresslive Holborn. We’re getting a little free with our 80s jazz thing. We have a new Matt Bianco tune, but we’re also hopping back to the 70s (just) and forward to the noughties. Do Join us. Ticket link below.
www.pizzaexpresslive.com/whats-on/jaz...
www.pizzaexpresslive.com/whats-on/jaz...
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Sunday Nov 16 the JR Sextet are playing @pizzaexpresslive Holborn. We’re getting a little free with our 80s jazz thing. We have a new Matt Bianco tune, but we’re also hopping back to the 70s (just) and forward to the noughties. Do Join us. Ticket link below.
www.pizzaexpresslive.com/whats-on/jaz...
www.pizzaexpresslive.com/whats-on/jaz...
The Jr Sextet’s December show is basically sold out but there are tickets for our November show at pizza express Holborn. We’ve added a bunch of new tunes including this version of Herbie Mann’s Right Now (covered by the creatures in the 80s).
www.jayrayner.co.uk/shows
www.jayrayner.co.uk/shows
November 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
The Jr Sextet’s December show is basically sold out but there are tickets for our November show at pizza express Holborn. We’ve added a bunch of new tunes including this version of Herbie Mann’s Right Now (covered by the creatures in the 80s).
www.jayrayner.co.uk/shows
www.jayrayner.co.uk/shows
The end is nigh. On Thurs night I’m @ilkleylitfest performing my Nights Out At Home show for the last time. It’s going to be REAL. And certainly fun. Looking online I can see there are a couple of rows left at the back of the stalls.
ilkleyliteraturefestival-tickets.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
ilkleyliteraturefestival-tickets.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
October 14, 2025 at 5:29 PM
The end is nigh. On Thurs night I’m @ilkleylitfest performing my Nights Out At Home show for the last time. It’s going to be REAL. And certainly fun. Looking online I can see there are a couple of rows left at the back of the stalls.
ilkleyliteraturefestival-tickets.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
ilkleyliteraturefestival-tickets.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.
October 9, 2025 at 8:31 AM
In other news Charlie Redmayne, the long serving CEO of HC in the UK, resigned yesterday.
The last six US Surgeons General have written a joint letter declaring Robert Kennedy Jnr a danger to the health of the nation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
October 7, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The last six US Surgeons General have written a joint letter declaring Robert Kennedy Jnr a danger to the health of the nation.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
At 10.30am on BBC R4 it’s the last episode in this series of the Kitchen Cabinet. We’re in Durham and it really is a corker, partly down to our special guest panellist Si King.
October 4, 2025 at 8:19 AM
At 10.30am on BBC R4 it’s the last episode in this series of the Kitchen Cabinet. We’re in Durham and it really is a corker, partly down to our special guest panellist Si King.
And so to the third (and final) instalment of my journey round classics for @ftweekend.com and the @financialtimes.com. This time it’s three classic pubs with great food, namely the Guinea Grill, the Blue Stoops and the Barley Mow. You want something cutting edge? You won’t find it here.
September 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
And so to the third (and final) instalment of my journey round classics for @ftweekend.com and the @financialtimes.com. This time it’s three classic pubs with great food, namely the Guinea Grill, the Blue Stoops and the Barley Mow. You want something cutting edge? You won’t find it here.
For this week’s @ftweekend.com restaurant review I went to Apna Punjab in Southall, a modest looking restaurant beloved of Bollywood film sets in the UK, where they serve terrific kulchas and mixed grills.
on.ft.com/3KjjgIw
on.ft.com/3KjjgIw
September 13, 2025 at 7:17 AM
For this week’s @ftweekend.com restaurant review I went to Apna Punjab in Southall, a modest looking restaurant beloved of Bollywood film sets in the UK, where they serve terrific kulchas and mixed grills.
on.ft.com/3KjjgIw
on.ft.com/3KjjgIw
Last week for @ftweekend.com and @financialtimes.com I took you on a tour of three classic bars. This week: three classic restaurants, namely Rules, Quo Vadis and Bentleys. You want edgy? You’ve come to the wrong place. And to access my FT reviews head to the LinkTree in bio.
September 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Last week for @ftweekend.com and @financialtimes.com I took you on a tour of three classic bars. This week: three classic restaurants, namely Rules, Quo Vadis and Bentleys. You want edgy? You’ve come to the wrong place. And to access my FT reviews head to the LinkTree in bio.
Behold the mission statement for Mr Porter. Is the restaurant a merciless lover? Does it investigate the border between dinner and sinner? I reviewed on behalf of @ftweekend.com and the answer is no, it’s just a dreary international steakhouse. Enjoy, because I didn’t.
on.ft.com/4gayNq5
on.ft.com/4gayNq5
September 6, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Behold the mission statement for Mr Porter. Is the restaurant a merciless lover? Does it investigate the border between dinner and sinner? I reviewed on behalf of @ftweekend.com and the answer is no, it’s just a dreary international steakhouse. Enjoy, because I didn’t.
on.ft.com/4gayNq5
on.ft.com/4gayNq5
Fancy a fancy drink? Then come with me as I take you on a tour of three classic London hotel bars for @ftweekend.com and @financialtimes.com, part a new series. You want edgy? You want hip? You’ve come to the wrong place. I’m bringing you classy and seriously bloody comfortable.
September 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Fancy a fancy drink? Then come with me as I take you on a tour of three classic London hotel bars for @ftweekend.com and @financialtimes.com, part a new series. You want edgy? You want hip? You’ve come to the wrong place. I’m bringing you classy and seriously bloody comfortable.
A TKC listener gets in touch re our section on old cookbooks from the 80s. This delight comes their copy of the Woman’s Own cookbook, circa 1964. Simpler times.
September 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A TKC listener gets in touch re our section on old cookbooks from the 80s. This delight comes their copy of the Woman’s Own cookbook, circa 1964. Simpler times.
TONIGHT I set the challenge on @masterchefuk: they have to make me a wrap. It could be a taco or a spring roll, a gyros or a burrito or blintz. But whatever it is they have to make the wrapping as well as the contents. 8.30pm BBC1 or on iplayer now.
August 29, 2025 at 7:40 AM
TONIGHT I set the challenge on @masterchefuk: they have to make me a wrap. It could be a taco or a spring roll, a gyros or a burrito or blintz. But whatever it is they have to make the wrapping as well as the contents. 8.30pm BBC1 or on iplayer now.
It’s time to get out this be ropey old graphic to announce that the new series of the Kitchen Cabinet begins today on BBC Radio 4 at 10.30am. We’re in Southampton discussing cruise ship food, pears and much else besides.
August 23, 2025 at 7:56 AM
It’s time to get out this be ropey old graphic to announce that the new series of the Kitchen Cabinet begins today on BBC Radio 4 at 10.30am. We’re in Southampton discussing cruise ship food, pears and much else besides.
34 years ago I went to Sheffield to report on a ‘rave’ church called the Nine O’clock Service. I tried to keep an atheist’s open mind, but still found it v disconcerting.Yesterday church leader Chris Brain, was found guilty of indecently assaulting 17 women congregants
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
August 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
34 years ago I went to Sheffield to report on a ‘rave’ church called the Nine O’clock Service. I tried to keep an atheist’s open mind, but still found it v disconcerting.Yesterday church leader Chris Brain, was found guilty of indecently assaulting 17 women congregants
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
48 continuous hours of play later
August 20, 2025 at 8:26 AM
48 continuous hours of play later
Have a couple of dessert pics. The first is a cheesecake.
August 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Have a couple of dessert pics. The first is a cheesecake.
Elsewhere in today’s @ftweekend.com we have a spiffing salad supplement in which I set out to save the dreary British salad from itself.
on.ft.com/4mlVcDb
on.ft.com/4mlVcDb
August 16, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Elsewhere in today’s @ftweekend.com we have a spiffing salad supplement in which I set out to save the dreary British salad from itself.
on.ft.com/4mlVcDb
on.ft.com/4mlVcDb
I think it’s only fair to give you a sense of the salad I’m whinging about.
August 9, 2025 at 8:12 AM
I think it’s only fair to give you a sense of the salad I’m whinging about.
I appeal to many demographics. (No is the answer btw; haven’t smoked since I was 18.)
August 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
I appeal to many demographics. (No is the answer btw; haven’t smoked since I was 18.)
Next Thurs the JR Sextet are @pizzaexpresslive Holborn, and there are a few tickets. We’ve just added songs by Alison Moyet and Fairground Attraction to our dive into the 80s chart hits with jazz in their bones. Join us for a night of hot jazz (and cool air conditioning).
www.jayrayner.co.uk/shows
www.jayrayner.co.uk/shows
July 10, 2025 at 11:27 AM
Next Thurs the JR Sextet are @pizzaexpresslive Holborn, and there are a few tickets. We’ve just added songs by Alison Moyet and Fairground Attraction to our dive into the 80s chart hits with jazz in their bones. Join us for a night of hot jazz (and cool air conditioning).
www.jayrayner.co.uk/shows
www.jayrayner.co.uk/shows