Heston Blumenthal is probably the most influential chef in the world to still run a restaurant. The only other chef who could be mentioned in the same sentence, Ferran Adria, gave up on El Bulli, the ...

The programme opened with Blumenthal and Giles Coren, The Times’ restaurant critic, choosing a year to recreate. The verdict was 2001, the year that Blumenthal began his experiments with ...