Nights Out in the Kitchen: More recipes and stories from a restaurant critic's life

In his bestselling cookbook Nights Out At Home, Jay Rayner reflected on his quarter-century as a restaurant critic and outed himself as not only a professional eater, but someone with a profound understanding of how the very best meals are crafted.Read on sofas and poured over in kitchens, it offered inspiration and permission to roll up our sleeves and start cooking our favourite restaurant dishes at home. Now, in Nights Out in the Kitchen, readers will encounter Jay in his kitchen, with another 40 cleverly reverse-engineered recipes, taking inspiration from restaurants and chefs across the UK, alongside 20 of his very own recipes, including meatballs with braised spaghetti, shaved fennel and lemon zest salad, tartiflette tart and slow cooked tandoori lamb shoulder. With each dish, we’ll get to peek behind Jay’s kitchen door to discover how he cooks these family favourites, and the dynamic mix of restaurants, chefs and cookbooks - as well as Jay’s own creative flair - that inspired th